[skibum]

I have never trained to strip the mag out unless necessary (it became necessary on a few occasions shooting the issued S&W autos when I was in the academy).

Recently, I heard what sounds like a very good rationale for NOT doing so, especially in training: when the magazine is manually stripped, it's held by the base, right? And if you drop it or fling it down, what's most likely to strike the deck first? The feed lips. In combat, you're unlikely to care too much about the condition of the feed lips of an empty magazine, but how do you train yourself to do that without many repetitions at the range, thereby damaging the feed lips? I don't really like the concept of "training" and "duty" magazines that much, because how am I to be confident in my duty mags without shooting them alot?

(Okay, I do have some crapped out magazines, clearly marked, with which to train malfunction clearing, but if I'm spending time at the range clearing unintended (and NOT operator-induced) malfunctions, it's time to re-evaluate my equipment.)

Bottom line, sounds unnecessary, and there's at least a decent reason for not doing so.