How often do you load/unload your carry gun(s)

[Smoke]

I unload my carry gun when I'm cleaning/lubing it or when I go to the range. Other than that it stays loaded. My magazines stay loaded for literally years at a time.

How often do you load or unload your carry guns?

 

[pawngal]

Whenever I shoot it........(revolver)

 

[Rpg]

Every day I unload my pistol, wipe down with a lightly oiled rag, then reload.

 

[dan323]

Hummm. I don't have a routine schedule but I may need to think about that. Otherwise when ever I use it at the range ( ~once a month ). I use the ammo in the mag and replace it with new, and I clean the gun after I shoot.

 

[shouldazagged]

J-frame--reload when I've shot it dry and cleaned it.

Due to health problems I've just bought a much lighter carry gun, a little .380. I don't anticipate changing ammo in the mags unless I shoot them empty.

 

[TomkinsSP]

Someone, I wish I remembered who, said "after hitting the perpetrator(s) five times."

 

[rwsmith]

When i practice or shoot for sport....

I either change magazines or unload a magazine.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I unload my carry gun when I'm cleaning/lubing it or when I go to the range. Other than that it stays loaded. My magazines stay loaded for literally years at a time.

^^^^^^^ I, also.^^^^^^^

 

[Arik]

Same

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[BAM-BAM]

Guns/magazines tend to stay loaded.......carry guns tend to live in a dedicated "lock box".... if a gun is in it; that gun is loaded and GTG


the only thing I ''worry about".... is if/when I clear the round in the chamber I try to rotate it to the bottom of the magazine before reloading...... I don't want to encourage bullet set back.

 

[Ray1970]

Every day I unload my pistol, wipe down with a lightly oiled rag, then reload.

To each their own but I'm not unloading and reloading my carry gun 365 times a year.

I probably unload mine for a light cleaning and inspection about once every three or four weeks or so.

 

[ContinentalOp]

My carry gun is a 642. I unload for cleaning and dry fire practice. I usually try to get in at least a couple minutes of dry fire practice each day, so I'd say I unload my gun daily, or nearly so. While I don't unload the chambers for my daily inspection/end-of-day wipe down, I swing out the cylinder when doing so.

 

[CajunBass]

Every once in a while.

 

[TomkinsSP]

I don't want to encourage bullet set back.

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There IS an easy way to avoid bullet set back...
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This has been a public service announcement...

 

[Rpg]

To each their own but I'm not unloading and reloading my carry gun 365 times a year. /QUOTE]


Drop the magazine, drop the chambered round, wipe gun with oily rag, insert mag, chamber new round, drop mag and top off, reinsert mag: all takes less than 45 seconds with a 1911.

Hard to imagine why that drill would seem oppressive or excessively time consuming.

 

[swsig]

All my semi-autos have at least one magazine loaded with self-defense rounds. Each time I take one of these guns to the range, which is two to three times a month, I unload all of the SD rounds and use all of the magazines during target practice. If I am going to have any magazine problems, I want to find out while I'm at the range, not when I'm in a self-defense situation.

 

[Walkingwolf]

I can see the Marine Patrol oiling their gun daily, but for me, nope.

 

[TomkinsSP]

All my semi-autos have at least one magazine loaded with self-defense rounds. Each time I take one of these guns to the range, which is two to three times a month, I unload all of the SD rounds and use all of the magazines during target practice. If I am going to have any magazine problems, I want to find out while I'm at the range, not when I'm in a self-defense situation.

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NEVER have a magazine related problem again...
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This has been a public service announcement...

 

[mtgianni]

Carry gun gets loaded before I leave the house and unloaded when I get home. House guns tend to stay loaded.

 

[Smoke]

I either change magazines or unload a magazine.

I have carry magazines and range magazines.