How to unload the ammunition from an AR magazine

This brief photo collection will illustrate how to unload the ammunition from an AR magazine. Although the illustrated AR magazine is from a Smith and Wesson M&P 15T AR rifle, this information also generally applies to all other AR style rifles. Click on any of the following photos to enlarge them.

Unloading an AR magazine is a little like unloading a standard handgun magazine. You drag the ammunition out from the top of the magazine one at a time. To start, place one of your fingers at the rear of the magazine on the flat part of one of the exposed rounds of ammunition.


Now push the exposed round of ammunition forward out of the magazine.



That's all there is to it. Repeat the process for all the other rounds of ammunition in the magazine until the entire magazine is completely empty.


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