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Originally Posted by Whitwabit
All my carry guns have 3 magazines I use with each .. I shoot the mag in the pistol once a month and rotate mags in doing so .. so every 3 months the ammo in the mag gets shot .. if not carrying just range ammo through the pistol if its taken to range .. ..
New pistols gets 400 rounds of range ammo and then 100 rounds of my carry ammo with no failures before it makes the rotation !!
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That's pretty much what I do. My first mag at the range is always the mag of carry ammo that is in the pistol. I then shoot as many mags of range ammo as I want, then reload a mag with my carry ammo and head home.
I usually have at least 5 mags with me at the range and go out to shoot once a week on average, so I rotate carry ammo at the rate of about a box/month.
Before I settle on a carry ammo, the chosen pistol has to handle at least 200 rounds of it flawlessly before I trust it. It's an expensive start-up routine, but I'm betting my life it will work if ever needed.