Jungle style

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The term "Jungle Style" usually refers to the practice of taping or securing two gun magazines together, with one taped upside down while the other is inserted into the rifle. However, a rifle may also be jungle styled by using plastic divider or cradle in which the two magazines sit, usually upright.

[edit] Origins

The practice of Jungle Styled magazines is said to have been developed during the Vietnam War by soldiers using the new M16 assault rifle. Soldiers, who would have been told to only load their 20 round magazines with 19 bullets, would tape one end of a magazine to another, decreasing the amount of time to reload and fire. This practice decreased after the introduction of the 30 round magazine.

[edit] References in popular culture

There are many notable films which show Jungle Styled weapons, including:

• Full Metal Jacket: At the beginning of the scene with the troops encountering the VC sniper, we see that Cowboy has two 20 round M16 mags jungle styled.
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Jane uses a H&K UMP fitted with a silencer, red dot sight, vertical foregrip, and two magazines jungle style when John and Jane are pursuing each other through their house.
• Scarface: In the final battle sequence, Tony Montanna takes an M16 with an undermounted grenade launcher and Jungle-Style Magazines, looking to be the higher capacity 30 round magazines.
• Die Hard 2: Many of the weapons used by the terrorists and Bruce Willis are Jungle Styled, with the different coloured tape holding them together identifying whether they are blanks or real.