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For starters, I never refer to my carry gun as my weapon.
Too many negative vibes.
I try not to do the same thing but it slips all the time
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For starters, I never refer to my carry gun as my weapon.
Too many negative vibes.
For starters, I never refer to my carry gun as my weapon.
Too many negative vibes.
You get home, take off your weapon, remove the magazine and put them both in their safe. Do you remove all the ammo each time, some of the ammo (to relieve the tension on the mag spring) or simply leave the ammo in the mag because you'll be back tomorrow for your pistol?
What about the round that was in the chamber? I've heard (on the internet, so it has to be true) that constantly loading / unloading the same round can lead to the bullet being pushed back into the case. Any truth?
Yet no matter how many times metallurgists and engineers continue to say this the myth just won't die.I once asked a metallurgist, and he said the same thing. That the constant compression and decompression of the spring will cause fatigue quicker than having it compressed all the time.
He actually asked me if I put my car on jacks every night to keep the leaf and coil springs fresh on my Jeep.
For starters, I never refer to my carry gun as my weapon.
Too many negative vibes.
Not to drift off topic here or start another set of arguments, but that reminds me of a situation the LEO that gave me my safety course told me about.
He said to never refer to my carry gun as a weapon and gave me an example of a licensed gun owner being arrested when asked by police one night if he had any weapons on him and he said yes.
The guy eventually was cleared but what a pile of shit to go through.
From that day on I always refered to my carry gun as a firearm.
The firearm goes into the safe (if it's not on me) fully loaded. If I want to get it out, I want it ready to shoot RFN. (Right Now!) I assume that all my firearms are loaded, and if I want to clean it or dry-fire it, it gets cleared.You get home, take off your weapon, remove the magazine and put them both in their safe.
100% true. I have a friend who does the load/unload on his Llama large-frame .45 and it's really weird to see a shortened .45 ACP round. Avoid doing that to the same round constantly; the bullet pushed back in the case decreases the case volume, which drives the pressure way up when the round is fired... which could lead to a broken gun and an injured shooter.What about the round that was in the chamber? I've heard (on the internet, so it has to be true) that constantly loading / unloading the same round can lead to the bullet being pushed back into the case.
Being the technogeek I am, I use a Brother P-touch to put a number label on the bottom of each mag.Also, I found it useful to number or mark your mags.
For starters, I never refer to my carry gun as my weapon.
Too many negative vibes.
Also, I found it useful to number or mark your mags
Carry mags always stay loaded and pistol is put away with one in the chamber.
Not to drift off topic here or start another set of arguments, but that reminds me of a situation the LEO that gave me my safety course told me about.
He said to never refer to my carry gun as a weapon and gave me an example of a licensed gun owner being arrested when asked by police one night if he had any weapons on him and he said yes.
The guy eventually was cleared but what a pile of shit to go through.
From that day on I always refered to my carry gun as a firearm.
I try not to either. I had to wear a "W" necklace once.
Here's a common scenario for most of us with CCW....
You get home, take off your weapon, remove the magazine and put them both in their safe. Do you remove all the ammo each time, some of the ammo (to relieve the tension on the mag spring) or simply leave the ammo in the mag because you'll be back tomorrow for your pistol?
Curious minds (including mine) want to know!
in the house ..fully loaded, one in the chamber, G30 & G23 all the time.
summer carry is a 442
I try not to either. I had to wear a "W" necklace once.
My GF stopped letting me use her nail polish after a late night reinactment of Buffalo Bill's Drag scene in Silence of the Lambs
But yeah marking your mags is a good idea. Especially when you have sh*tloads of them.
My carry guns stays loaded 24-7, with periodic ammo refreshment.
If I had kids in the house it'd be different.
my two cents...
- Watch out for bullet set back. Some of you guys may be chambering and unchambering the same rounds over enough that you will cause the bullet to set back in the case...and then...BOOM.