TimeRegained
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The only thing to have to condition in that case is the spring, and not the ammo. Wars have shown us that ammunition can be stored for decades upon decades without even considering it going bad.
CCW Ammo: replace periodically?
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I fire mine off about once a month, not for fear of them aging, just to make sure they cycle properly. I put about 50 rounds through the gun a week for practice and over the years the gun has changed it mind about feeding certain brands. I would hate to find out it no longer feeds when I NEED it.
I carried two magazines of HyrdaShok in a 5" 1911 for four years. I'm one of those guys who keeps their gun pretty well oiled with CLP all the time, so the primers all had oil rings around the joint of the primer and case. I would put a round to the bottom of the magazine once it was darkly discolored and the HP mouth was knocked around a bit from re-chambering. Never had a problem with bullet setback (verified with digital micrometer) or failure to fire. I recently shot this ammo and had an average velocity of 900 fps with a SD of 7 fps. Pretty good stuff, and I put 17 rounds into a 4" group at 25 yards from a bench.
Take from that what you will, but it seems to me that worrying about ammo longevity may not be as important as some think.
Take from that what you will, but it seems to me that worrying about ammo longevity may not be as important as some think.
Wanderling
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I bet you the majority of the surplus ComBlock ammo sold here was produced loooooooong time ago. AFAIK it was / is still pretty reliable some 50 years later.
When a new crop of top-shelf ammunition has been released.
Defense ammunition is not going to expire before the company integrates lessons learned and designs a better replacement bullet.
And you don't really have to shoot it up in any set amount of time. Your grandchildren could probably shoot your carry ammo without a terribly significant change in performance.
Defense ammunition is not going to expire before the company integrates lessons learned and designs a better replacement bullet.
And you don't really have to shoot it up in any set amount of time. Your grandchildren could probably shoot your carry ammo without a terribly significant change in performance.
When I was in the Air Force, we performed a FSAGA on our alert aircraft (First Sortie After Ground Alert) aka could the aircraft have performed its alert mission... I do the same thing every six months. When I arrive at the range my first shooting series is the CCW I'm carrying... I empty the clip into a target and evaluate how the "ammo" performed... I know how the gun performs. It's a nice confidence check that my CCW ammo will perform if needed...
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