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Under the principle that 1 is 0, and 2 is 1, I always carry at least one spare magazine. So the number of rounds depends on what gun I’m carrying.

With my G43, I carry 1 extra round with a +2 extender.

With my G26, I always carry 2 extra mags with +2 pinkey extenders, and the one in the gun also has a +2 extender.

With my G19, I carry 1 or 2 spares, depending on how I feel.

With my G17, I’m set up to carry 4 backups, and all 5 mags have +2 extenders.......but that’s my “I’m expecting trouble and may need to fight my way to my AR” gun. But the truth is that I rarely carry that gun anymore, and when I do, I almost never carry more than one spare mag.

But the point of all that is that some of the most common kinds of mechanical failures in semiauto pistols are magazine related. If the malfunction won’t clear, the fastest way to fix the problem is to drop the mag and insert a fresh one. But despite having all those spare mags, I don’t actually expect to need that many rounds. However, one of the things I’ve learned here, and from other friends of mine who have seen the elephant and exchanged fire with him, there’s no such thing as too much ammo unless you’re swimming for your life. My daily carry routine, about 95% of the time, alternates between the G43 and one backup mag, or the G26 and two backup mags.