wnderr
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I purposely mix every kind of ammo I can come up with, and am comfortable with it at the 200 round mark. If it won't eat 'em, it's gone. I seem to fall in love with a lot of them after the first mag. Some, are just too ugly to keep!
No trust in a gun for CC
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Mainsail
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I just picked up one of the police trade-in USP .40s that Summit was listing. I figure a couple hundred rounds for this one, as it should have been fired in quals quite a bit.
On cleaning it I noticed there was a little lint behind the hammer which tells me it was carried, but after field stripping it I found the insides look absolutely new. No wear on the rails and just the faintest outline where the barrel meets the slide.
Would a cop take a new gun, chamber a round, holster it, and go on patrol? Seriously, that's how good the insides look.
EDIT to add: Once I get a couple hundred rounds through it, and assuming no failures, I will test fire a box of the Underwood rounds I plan to load it with, then I will add it to the carry lineup.
On cleaning it I noticed there was a little lint behind the hammer which tells me it was carried, but after field stripping it I found the insides look absolutely new. No wear on the rails and just the faintest outline where the barrel meets the slide.
Would a cop take a new gun, chamber a round, holster it, and go on patrol? Seriously, that's how good the insides look.
EDIT to add: Once I get a couple hundred rounds through it, and assuming no failures, I will test fire a box of the Underwood rounds I plan to load it with, then I will add it to the carry lineup.
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Rastoff
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Yes, it happens all the time. I know many that have done just that.
Ed Brown
I have several Ed Brown's and have never had any failures in anyone of them.
Unlike most here, I require a gun to go at least 500 rounds without being cleaned and no failures of any kind before I'll carry it.
This one passed...
It is sitting on the 749 spent casings I fired that day. I got it home, field stripped it, lubed it and went to the range. Unfortunately one of the rounds was damaged during manufacture so it wouldn't go into the chamber. Otherwise it would have been 750.
I have several Ed Brown's and have never had any failures in anyone of them.
Any new firearm goes through a good cleaning, inspection, and lube before it hits the range. And factory grease is not your friend, especially in the striker channel. It’s there as a preservative not a lubricant. Then it gets a diet of 200-300 rds of decent brass cased fmj’s and a couple of mags of sd ammo.
I feel lucky so far to have no lemons, hope it continues.
I feel lucky so far to have no lemons, hope it continues.
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