Will keeping a clip loaded wear out the spring?

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The spring is theoretically designed to take it . However, I would keep it one round short of a full magazine. That cuts the spring stress to less than half. You can test that yourself by measuring the force required to put the next to the last round in compared with the last round. It is a big difference. Why stress the spring unnecessarily?

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