Some people have a fixation about huge magazines on their assault rifles. However, I can come up with several reasons why they are not a good idea.
First of all, with an undisciplined firing style, a large magazine tends to lead to the barrel heating up much more than it should, which can cause it to warp. This will lead to the weapon becoming less accurate at first and if not noticed, even barrel blockage.
Second thing is the magazine itself. The big magazines are often unreliable if filled to the maximum capacity and tend to be both bulky and get in the way when firing from prone position.
I talked with a Finnish Army weaponsmith once and he kept cursing, how (especially) the younger officers often dream about a 100-round magazine on an assault rifle instead of the standard issue 30-round one. Since Finnish Army has modified assault rifles with such magazines for use as auxilliary weapon for the NSV heavy machinegun (due to the fact, the 7.62x39mm has a smaller safety zone on the firing range than 12.7x108mm), some actually manage to obtain such a magazine from the armory and usually destroy an assault rifle testing it.
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