Ever had home defense ammo not go BANG?

[kidicarus13]

I read enough stories that you'd think it was a common occurance or something. "Don't
get oil in the firing pin chamber", "Change out your carry ammo once a year just to be safe", etc. I personally have never had a hollowpoint round not go off when I pulled the trigger and my ammo stays in my gun for years sometime, in cars through the summers and winters, etc. Can someone give me a first hand account of a FTF or are people just paranoid?

[CrufflerSteve]

Some years ago I had a serious hang fire with Federal 357 SIG ammo. Probably 5 seconds. That really shook me up. I'd just finished doing tap-rack-bang drills with a friend and if it had happened then I might have been hurt. The rest of the box was fine.

I've had a few hard primers that required a double strike and a couple of dead rounds, mostly with cheap imported ammo or cheap stuff like Blazer. Use top of the line stuff for defense.

Old milsurp is a different story and only a fool would use that in a carry gun.

Steve

[blacklabel]

I've never had a problem with Winchester Ranger including rounds that had sat in magazines for 9-12 months. This is for 9mm and .45.

[Uberjager]

I've had misfires only with .22lr ammo. I had it happen 3 times with cheap old ass ammo(ammo was from the 50's) in my 10/22, and the other time was with my uncle's American 180. I'd say the odds of that happening, with "newish" self-defense ammo, are like the odds of winning the lottery.

[Uberjager]

I've never had a problem with Winchester Ranger including rounds that had sat in magazines for 9-12 months. This is for 9mm and .45.

Out of curiosity where do you get ranger ammo? I've gotten some off gun broker before, but it was fairly expensive.

[tmckay2]

It can always hen with any gun and any ammo. You just hope and pray the extreme rarity does come up when you need t most. Switching out the ammo is stupid. You're just as likely to be putting in a dud compared the a dud already being in there. It's typical gun nut paranoia

[68Charger]

The main reason to change out your carry/duty ammo is if you chamber it multiple times- could lead to bullet setback.
Other than that, it's just because you should practice- and some of that practice should be with your carry ammo.

If it stays in the mag or chamber, then it's paranoia that it's going to go bad just sitting there- especially in this dry climate. (in wet climates, it could corrode on the outside, possibly leading to a failure to feed

Personally, I've never had JHP carry ammo fail to fire...

Out of curiosity where do you get ranger ammo? I've gotten some off gun broker before, but it was fairly expensive.

Locally, Ammosphere.com has it...

SGammo.com is probably the cheapest place I've seen...

[blacklabel]

Out of curiosity where do you get ranger ammo? I've gotten some off gun broker before, but it was fairly expensive.

I think I got mine at Garretson's in Greeley. It was expensive but I didn't feel like trying to find 100 rounds of it online.

[DANGERTASTIC!]

Thats why we train. So we can REACT when something like that happens

[blacklabel]

Great point Danger. Despite my lack of HD ammo problems, I need to get better about maintaining a spare magazine on my person as well as drilling to clear malfunctions.