I am considering using my M4gery as a home defense gun. If I do, I’d like a way to store an extra mag on the gun. I’m not a big fan of those clips that make 2 mags sit side by side. I think I’ve seen in the past single mag pouches that attach to the stock. Do they make one that would fit on a Magpul CTR stock? If so, can you provide links?
Have you looked at the Redi-Mag?
The stock pouch can be a good idea.
Pros: you have a mag that is readily available.
Cons: if you have the stock any shorter than the second position, you cannot charge the weapon. I had one on my work weapon for a while but decided to take it off because I felt it was a liability.
The pouch I ran was from Specter http://www.spectergear.com/m4_bmp.htm
I had a spec-ops one mounted on a standard m4 stock. It worked ok for a truck gun where just having a spare mag handy was the objective, but I didn’t care for how it blocked the charging handle when the stock was shortened like others have said. The one nice thing about the spec-ops pouch is that it can also be vertically mounted on the stock so it shouldn’t block the charging handle, but I had troubles mounting it that way and gave up. I’ve never tried a ready mag, but it sounds like it would be a better option. I wouldn’t mind trying one on a rifle stock though.
I’ve always thought they’re a convenient, cheap way to carry one mag with the weapon at all times, and if that’s the first mag you use. Even an empty one can get in the way of the charging handle, though, so one needs to consider that.
The ones that worked best for me, when it was actually a freakin’ requirement, ffs, were the ones designed like the Specter, which tend to lie below the upper plane of the stock. Theoretically out of the way of the charging handle, and therefore the least obtrusive.
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get, however.
Something else to consider when mounting a mag on the stock is it gets in the way when you have to shoot weak side.
can you easily switch shoulders with a stock mag pouch?
Changing hands itself isn’t the problem, it’s getting stock weld once you’ve changed over.