How many rounds down range before you consider yours reliable?

[Javelin]

A few boxes to test the gun. But many hundreds of rounds in familiarization and practice. My G23 has never failed on me in many thousands of rounds (some is the gun some is the ammo... you never know when your going to get a bad round).

But this does not mean that I don't practice malfunction drills once in a while. There is no excuse for not doing this in your carry/defense firearm. Anything mechanical can fail no matter what is stamped on the receiver. My Glock, Hk, SIG, Beretta, etc can all fail. It is my job to be proficient with the platforms to ensure that a FTF or FTL is quickly remedied in the event it happens.

 

[Walkalong]

No certain count, but when they never fail from round one, after 2 or 3 hundred rounds I have a tendency to get a warm fuzzy feeling about them. Then after 6 months or a year of this, I tend to have absolute faith in them.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

500 rounds of JHP, then I call it good.

 

[chuckusaret]

I think the days of 100's of rounds with HP is over unless you are rich. Just walked out of a gun show in West Palm Beach and Federal HydraShok 20 rounds of .40 cal was $32.50 up from $21.50 last month. Capitalism at its finest.

 

[Japle]

I've shot many IDPA matches and a Steel Challenge match with my Glock 19 and never had a problem.

I carry that gun every day.

I'd say 4 IDPA matches (about 300 rounds) would be enough.

 

[TheVirginian]

Sigs are great quality guns but they are not immune to problems. The only gun that I have actually sent off to the factory for tuning so far was in fact a Sig Sauer. It just didn't want to feed ammo properly. It had way unacceptable failures to feed, I don't recall the ratio but if memory serves me, it was perhaps 10%. That's like one round per mag and in no specific order either. When I got it back, they said they polished the feed ramp. It looked perfect when I sent it in or I'd have done that myself. I'm still skeptical about what else was done, but whatever, it got it fixed and reliable. I felt very comfortable with it and used it as a SD gun at that point.
-Bill

 

[ScareyH22A]

Yea everyone saying you have to shoot 200rds of your carry ammo... I would but I can't seem to find any, let alone any for less than $1.00 per round. Although I did come up on 50rds of Federal HST 230gr +P .45 ACP so I'm in the market now for a .45

 

[possum]

my xd service model has over 13,000rds through it, and has been too three different training courses, i consider it to be 100% reliable.

i say 1000rds of good quality factory ammo (fmj and a little jhp too) if it is a fighting gun i want it to be 100% reliable with every kind of ammo possible factory, reloads, jhp's etc. if my guns don't run and maintain thier reliability then they are got rid of. i have no time or room for a gun that isn't 100% reliable under the conditions and reasons that i own the gun.