Shell Casing pic, is this OK for EDC?

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Attached are a couple of photos of my PT145 Millenium Pro .45, spent shell casings. It's the last generation model, I've shot about 70 rounds of 230 FMJ, PMC, Blazer, Winchester white box and Remington Golden Sabres. Never had any malfunctions at all. The only thing that concerns me is that striker mark on the primer. I plan to retire the summer carry Kel Tec Pf9 and beef it up with the Taurus .45. looking at the attached what are you all's thoughts?
 

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Its fine, its just the firing pin. As long as the gun is reliable, you're good to go with carrying it.
 
Ok, the only thing that threw me off was that striker mark, kind of elongated. I've never seen one that pronounced but I can say that every single shell casing is uniform. Just had to make sure before I start carrying it EDC. I'll put at least another 50 rounds of FMJ through before next month. On another note, being JHP is so damn expensive, espescially Hornady Critical Defense, how many rounds of that should I put through before I deem that ammo more than acceptable for EDC?
 
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This is common, to varying degrees, in almost all autoloading pistols. When the cartridge fires, the slide travels rearward and the case begins to eject, the firing pin still protrudes slightly from the slide breechface. As the case ejects, it slides up the breechface and the firing pin "wipes" across the base, creating the elongated "teardrop" mark. The firing pin will have retracted by the time the slide travels to the rear, so there is no danger of a "slam fire" when it comes back forward to strip off a new round.
 
Dude, cut your fingernails! :barf:


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Don't worry, my Mil Pro PT145 does the same. As others posted, it's from the firing pin swiping the primer as the case ejects.

You also see many other pistols do the same to primers in various calibers.
 
Ok, the only thing that threw me off was that striker mark, kind of elongated. I've never seen one that pronounced but I can say that every single shell casing is uniform. Just had to make sure before I start carrying it EDC. I'll put at least another 50 rounds of FMJ through before next month. On another note, being JHP is so damn expensive, espescially Hornady Critical Defense, how many rounds of that should I put through before I deem that ammo more than acceptable for EDC?
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1 Box ;), if it feeds FMJ just fine, JHP will be no problem when it comes to modern guns. I've never understood the whole put 500 rounds of your carry ammo through the gun, if it works fine with FMJ and there is no jams with one box of JHP and its a modern gun, I don't see how a jam could show up thats ammo related to the JHP.
 
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