Guns & Gear and preparation
With the advent of the accessorized rifle or carbine, people are putting so many things on rifles these days that need to be screwed on, locked in, and battery operated that Murphys law has some really cold things to say about this. Every screw on your carbine is going to come loose at some point and every battery operated device will fail at some point. I’ve seen a lot of accessories that fit in the pistol grip, buttstock or other areas and this is nice for some purposes, but any of those operators were spending more than a day with their setup, they find that they aren’t carrying enough tools sand gear on their guns to get through 48hrs of hard use.
Real preparation for hard use of your accessorized firearm is to get a good range bag, drag bag or tactical rifle case. You really should think about matching a good soft gun case that can be used as a shooting matte, tool box, battery storage and gun parts. Keep atleast one back up bolt with firing pins, store batteries in a sealed case even if you already have some battery storage on your gun and pickup a mult-purpose screw driver set that is very small and won’t punch holes in your gun case even if it gets toss around.
Promag and Mec-Gar make decent magazines, I wouldn’t suggest them as primary magazines, but factory new magazines can be pricey. I would suggest regardless of which number of magazines you are normally carrying, keep 3 or 4 range mags for each handgun you own.