Active Self Protection

Odd question for anyone: What do you do with the extra cartridge when you're doing safe storage?

Unloading for the night, I open the bedside case, drop the mag, placing it and its backup into the case, then empty the chamber and... make up a place to stow the +1 before putting the pistol into the case and re-locking it.

Shifting to less lethal carry when preparing to enter a FUDD zone, I open the gun safe, same sequence of events, same lack of standard option provided to stow the +1.

I have a six mag holder for my belt for (mostly for range use). Still have to invent a place to hold the +1 if, for any reason, I'm going that route.

Spare mag holder on my shoulder rig: Still have to invent a place for the +1.

How is this not a ready-made feature of most storage devices?

I'm fairly crafty; I can make something up. But looking for inspiration (or a wheel someone's already invented that I'm simply not finding) -- what do YOU do with the +1?

I haven’t seen anything useful. I just put it by the magazine.

Do you unload every night? if so rotate your rounds or you can slowly but surely miss seat the round. Which might not be a fatal flaw, but can can accuracy issue as the round has to jump the gap to engage the lands and grooves of your barrel.

Excellent advice, thank you.

Haven't settled on a duty round yet, so everything gets rotated every time we get to the range (currently 1-2 times per week most weeks).

Once we have different loads for duty vs. training, we'll have to establish a rotation pattern, but hadn't figured one out yet.

Was thinking of using one magazine of duty ammo each month to force a rotation on the larger scale, but that could get pricey.