If I do shoot a firearm loose, I would think that is a good thing! I should be real good with it then!

There is a local constable that has carried his M629 with handloads as a duty weapon for as long as anyone can remember. Massad Ayoob is a friend of his and could verify what I am saying.

He qualifies with it and has to shoot a bunch of rounds through it when he does. Remember, I've already told you he has done this for a long time. His load is a 180gr jacketed bullet with a healthy charge of 2400 behind it. Needless to say, it gets hot when he shoots a bunch of rounds through it. Do you know how he told me he cools it off between rounds?

He sticks it in a bucket of ice! I'm being serious! He said he has done this for years, many years. When he gets home he tears the gun completely down and cleans it. Every part that can come off of it does, under the side plate included.

I have to say this as a qualifier too, I've never seen this done, the qualifying that is, but I have been to his place to see the firearm completely torn down getting the once over.

Many years, slow powder, bunch of rounds, seems like he has found the answer!

FWIW

Here he is in action!