Guy B. Meredith
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jdh,
My experience is that unless you're using dirty .38 spl ammo it takes more than a few hundred to build up enough carbon to cause problems with tossing in some .357 magnums. I use plated bullets with nary a problem and jacketed bullets should work fine as well.
I've had stovepipes, FTF, etc. with a semi and ejector rod and mainspring problems with revolvers. A touch of blue loctite on the mainspring tension screw and the ejector rod has kept the problem from happening more than once each in over 25,000 rounds of .38 spl and nearly another 10,000 .357 magnums. A touch of white grease cured most issues on one semi auto.
While I favor revolvers I can see that semi autos are convenient for SD. However, semis are finicky feeders so when the "right" ammo starts getting scarce they can become problematic while a revolver will happily devour just about anything that pretends to be the correct caliber.
My experience is that unless you're using dirty .38 spl ammo it takes more than a few hundred to build up enough carbon to cause problems with tossing in some .357 magnums. I use plated bullets with nary a problem and jacketed bullets should work fine as well.
I've had stovepipes, FTF, etc. with a semi and ejector rod and mainspring problems with revolvers. A touch of blue loctite on the mainspring tension screw and the ejector rod has kept the problem from happening more than once each in over 25,000 rounds of .38 spl and nearly another 10,000 .357 magnums. A touch of white grease cured most issues on one semi auto.
While I favor revolvers I can see that semi autos are convenient for SD. However, semis are finicky feeders so when the "right" ammo starts getting scarce they can become problematic while a revolver will happily devour just about anything that pretends to be the correct caliber.
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