When would you lose faith in your CCW?
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I wouldn't truly trust a CCW pistol until I had fired at least 500 rounds through it. If I had problems with a particular ammo I'd probably try a few hundred more rounds. I'd polish the feed ramp and the chamber just a little too. Sometimes they can get a little sticky. And I'd make sure the gun was clean when I fired it and when I carried it. Mostly you just have to test them a while before you can truly trust them. That's how I do things anyway. You don't want to wear it out testing it though. I know people who won't shoot their carry gun more than 5 times just to make sure it fires but they are mostly carrying revolvers which don't have feeding issues. They don't want a gun to wear out in any way though. There are different ways of looking at these things.
The Red Hot Rider
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It would INCREASE my faith...in my j-frame.
george burns
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I have been shooting glock 9's for many years, and never had a failure of that type, also never used that brand of ammo, it sounds like an ammo specific problem. If I remember correctly that bullet has an odd shape to it, if I am right, it's likely that odd shaped tip that is causing the problem.
Zach S
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I have a few crap magazines for this reason.
I've never had any "faith" in any carry pistol. They are all machines, and as such, they can all fail.
Much better to avoid situations where you may need one. That's a tactic you could have some faith in.
That said, I try to maintain all of my firearms as well as possible, and especially my carry pieces.
Much better to avoid situations where you may need one. That's a tactic you could have some faith in.
That said, I try to maintain all of my firearms as well as possible, and especially my carry pieces.
Myself and two coworkers with G36s have all experienced the same issue with our pistols, namely that inexpensive, "practice" ball rounds sometimes do not have sufficient power cycle the slide completely, leading to the casing being ejected but the top round not feeding properly or not feed at all.
Full power duty rounds (230 grain Hydra Shok) work 100% in our G36s. Since it's three different guns with a variety of G36 magazines that do this, we came to the conclusion that the recoil spring is just too strong for some lower-powered rounds. The yellow box ball ammo from the big manufacturer is what we experienced issues with.
Full power duty rounds (230 grain Hydra Shok) work 100% in our G36s. Since it's three different guns with a variety of G36 magazines that do this, we came to the conclusion that the recoil spring is just too strong for some lower-powered rounds. The yellow box ball ammo from the big manufacturer is what we experienced issues with.
If you shoot any gun enough, you will encounter a malfunction. It may be because a magazine spring goes soft on you, or because the ammo is out of spec/bad, or because gunk in the firing pin channel gets you a light strike, or because an ejected case bounces off something and flies back into the closing action.
A glib person might say that one should never trust a gun that HASN'T had a malfunction of some sort, because that only indicates that you haven't shot that gun enough to form an opinion.
A glib person might say that one should never trust a gun that HASN'T had a malfunction of some sort, because that only indicates that you haven't shot that gun enough to form an opinion.
ApacheCoTodd
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When CCW standards fail.
It fails to reliably function with carry ammo from carry holster in carry state of condition.
If one of my carries - open or CCW - acts up in an out of "carry" scenario, I chalk it up to a work horse gettin' pissy about being in a show ring. A work horse in his harness, well handled, properly fed and failing to perform - that's entirely different.
It fails to reliably function with carry ammo from carry holster in carry state of condition.
If one of my carries - open or CCW - acts up in an out of "carry" scenario, I chalk it up to a work horse gettin' pissy about being in a show ring. A work horse in his harness, well handled, properly fed and failing to perform - that's entirely different.
Was it clean? I like to take new potential carry guns that are new (or new to me) and run them w/o cleaning until they exhibit some sort of failure.
I'm curious if you had a high round count on the gun and it wasn't clean, which may have been party to your feeding issue. Or, it could have been the ammo too. Doesn't outwardly sound like the fault of the firearm itself.
I'm curious if you had a high round count on the gun and it wasn't clean, which may have been party to your feeding issue. Or, it could have been the ammo too. Doesn't outwardly sound like the fault of the firearm itself.
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Better make that first shot count!
I never ever had a Glock malfunction in many thousands of rounds of shooting them...
But I don't shoot factory ammo either, and recently have found a bullet seated backwards on a round someone cleared from their weapon! I have found cases without flash holes in them! Ammo these days suck!
I never ever had a Glock malfunction in many thousands of rounds of shooting them...
But I don't shoot factory ammo either, and recently have found a bullet seated backwards on a round someone cleared from their weapon! I have found cases without flash holes in them! Ammo these days suck!
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