How many times will you rechamber a round?

[RJ]

Having a training gun and a carry gun has a lot of benefits, from broken parts/optics, isolation of problems from your carry gun, reduction of admin handling of a hot gun, and not constantly chambering your carry ammo.

This is the way.

[Robinson]

Having a training gun and a carry gun has a lot of benefits, from broken parts/optics, isolation of problems from your carry gun, reduction of admin handling of a hot gun, and not constantly chambering your carry ammo.

This is the way.

What they said.

[MattyD380]

What's the primary risk with setback? Pressure increase, right? Due to less space in the cartridge case?

[revchuck38]

What's the primary risk with setback? Pressure increase, right? Due to less space in the cartridge case?

Yup.

[FNFAN]

This is the way.

Totally agree. I have a G19 with the same sights and backstrap as my issued G23 and it cuts out much admin handling of the work gun.

[M2CattleCo]

Gonna pile on with the buy more guns crowd.

I keep one to carry, one to shoot and a spare. Or two.

[jeep45238]

What's the primary risk with setback? Pressure increase, right? Due to less space in the cartridge case?

Also, if there's a chambering issue depending on failure mode (IE - bullet jams in top of barrel, slide on the case, out of battery) - the crimp could be damaged, which would decrease the accuracy of the cartridge if it didn't prevent proper chambering in the future.

And, there's another match on the 12th :-)

[Clusterfrack]

In my pistols, 4 times before they're at the bottom of the magazine.

In AR's (or anything with a floating pin), twice and they're at the bottom.



Having a training gun and a carry gun has a lot of benefits, from broken parts/optics, isolation of problems from your carry gun, reduction of admin handling of a hot gun, and not constantly chambering your carry ammo.

Second gun for practice! For all these reasons. And just to have a spare.

I tested setback in HST 147, and couldn’t get more than a few 1000’s after a lot of chambering. When the round starts looking beat up, it’s gone. I never put a chambered round into any carry magazine. If a round gets buggered by chambering, at least it’s either already chambered, or in the training ammo box.

[B0308]

FWIW, though I have at least one of every carry pistol, with a clone, I hadn't thought of using one for carry and one for training as I try to share the use.

To the question, rechambering is limited to 3, marked with a sharpie each time. There might be a 4 in the mix somewhere, but never a problem. Glocks and M&P's in 9mm & .45 and 1911's and now and then a Browning High Power 9mm. With AR's, no more than twice.

YMMV

[B0308]

Double post, sorry