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It’s that time of year for new stuff, so I thought I’d talk about getting new defensive ammo. I normally don’t change defensive ammo types because it’s a pain, but when I do, here’s how I test the new stuff.
Ideally
- Fire 200-300 rounds of the stuff without a misfire or malfunction
- Even if you had the money, you may not be able to get the ammo
Testing
- Live Fire
- Inspection
- While in the box, primers
- Handling looking for defects
- Upright on Flat Surface
- Barrel Test
Loading
- Mags
- Count 3 times
- Lay out in bunches for each mag
- Count them as they go in
- Check the witness holes on the magazines
- Count 3 times
- Gun
- Don’t combat drop the first round
- Load off the mag
- Add on to the mag to make it complete
- If you load and unload your gun to practice
- Rotate which round is on top
- Might want to fire that first round and put a fresh one in
- Watch those top rounds for wear, replace regularly
Ammo Replacement
- Every 6 months when I was an Armored Car Guard, and if you are law enforcement/guard/ or carry the gun exposed everyday, six months is a good time frame
- Overseas I changed my ammo about every other week because I was on the range that often and practice ammo was the same as self defense ammo
- Currently I change my ammo about once a year
- Last Year was almost 2 years because of the shortage
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Ben
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Ben,
You said you do the inspection portion of your testing on each and every round you add to your self-defense loadout, but do not do the live fire each time you change out ammo.
Theoretical, the ammo should all be similar to each other regardless of lot #. But I suppose “in spec” is a range and your handgun could act differently on each end of that range.
Would it be wise to do the live fire with each new Lot # ammo you use, even a smaller, perhaps 1 magazine test?
Thanks for doing these PodCasts.
Semper Fi
Tim
That would be cool. Money and time is always an issue. I wouldn’t mind trying each lot to make sure, but rarely have the time, money, or ranges to do it every time.
If you can do the test every time that would be nice. I just never have that much time.