Fired Cartridge Casing

[Dennis The B]

Since this seems to cross all handgun types, I thought I'd place the question here:

The small envelope with the spent casing in new pistols and revolvers has a label with the date of the test fire. Does anyone know if the test firing is closer to the production date, or the shipping date?

Just curious.

 

[rwsmith]

This has come up......

I don't think anybody knows for sure but I would guess that it's a better chance to be closer to the production date because I think the test firing is a final manufacturing step, whereas shipping is indefinite. It could stay in stock until a certain run is complete before it's shipped to a distributor. I'm sure there's a backlog for the testing range, but they don't want to hold that up anymore than they would installing the barrels or any operation.

 

[Mcwsky09]

I think all you can say for sure is that it has to be some time between the end of the production line and being packaged. It would seem far simpler to test fire and box once and ship when a pallet is full rather than having to unbox everything prior to shipping as there would be no value i can think of in having the test fire date be closer to the ship date than the build complete date.

 

[DR505]

BTW - Cartridges have cases, sausages have casings.