New S&W 929 for 2014

[JHC]

I guess I'm just weird but I have zero expectation of reloading a J-frame in a fight. In my mind, the compelling use for a J-frame is as something that can be screwed into someone's side and fired until it goes click. If you don't have a second one, I think that expecting to reload one is the height of optimism.

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OK but think how much it sucks just training with it?

[Chuck Haggard]

I guess I'm just weird but I have zero expectation of reloading a J-frame in a fight. In my mind, the compelling use for a J-frame is as something that can be screwed into someone's side and fired until it goes click. If you don't have a second one, I think that expecting to reload one is the height of optimism.

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I picked up the 940 when we went to 9mms at work.

I tried going that route specifically due to ammo commonality. We are also required to qual on a 50 round course, duty, off duty, BUG, doesn't matter. Kind of slows down the process when a guy has to have a mallet on his belt to reload.

If all I was worried about was a 5 shot throw away gun in a fight then any caliber would do. In this case I was hoping the moon clip ammo would actually make the 940 viable. I found that two moon clips would stack in a single speedloader pouch for a .38/.357

[LSP972]

Add to this the fact that the supplied moon clips were quite fragile; and once bent in the slightest, they were useless, as they would cause binding of the cylinder during the trigger stroke.

This was the main problem I recall. I do remember one that had the sticky extraction. Either problem, as Chuck noted, made qualifying with one difficult, or a total non-event.

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[PPGMD]

Is that comp legal for USPSA revolver?

Anyways I might get one simply because I want a revolver that I can shoot without having to stockpile another caliber.

[jetfire]

Is that comp legal for USPSA revolver?

Anyways I might get one simply because I want a revolver that I can shoot without having to stockpile another caliber.

It's removable.

[Tamara]

Add to this the fact that the supplied moon clips were quite fragile; and once bent in the slightest...

I've found the main cause of bent moons to be people removing the empties wrong.

[jetfire]

I've found the main cause of bent moons to be people removing the empties wrong.

Fun fact: with .38 Special moons you have to make sure that your clips will fit the specific brand of brass. For example, TK Custom sells two or three different thicknesses of clips, one of which will only fit Starline brass.

[LSP972]

I've found the main cause of bent moons to be people removing the empties wrong.

Could be; I have never owned anything moon clip related, so I dunno.

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[Tamara]

Fun fact: with .38 Special moons you have to make sure that your clips will fit the specific brand of brass. For example, TK Custom sells two or three different thicknesses of clips, one of which will only fit Starline brass.

Yeah, 646's shipped with three each of two different thicknesses of .40 cal moons.

[66L]

Yeah, 646's shipped with three each of two different thicknesses of .40 cal moons.

Do 9mm case rims suffer from different thicknesses like the .40 S&W, requiring different clips? I have hundreds of them for .45 ACP and have never had issues with mixed brass and mixed clips, but I have zero experience with other calibers and moonclips.