Ever had home defense ammo not go BANG?

[sellersm]

...drilling to clear malfunctions.

^This. Practice, practice, practice. When it happens we react, instead of think.

Oh, and to the OP question, I've never had any SD ammo not go bang when it needed to. I have had a FTE during practice, however, with the SD ammo.

[DANGERTASTIC!]

I have a video of a totally unexpected malfunction.

I was running through some drills and there was a few people there, girls, so while I was explaining things, I forgot to make my pistol hot.

Click. I was happy with how fast I reacted....this is what should happen in real life when your weapon goes down.

Practice practice PRACTICE!!.



There are drills that can be done at HOME, there is no need for the range, so there really is no excuse for not being good at it

[Monky]

Had a bedside gun not go bang when I took it to the range.. apparently it got all gummed up.. firing pin wouldn't hit the primer hard at all.. Once I got it moving it was fine

I totally blame the ammo.

[motorep]

Yep, Federal Hydrashock .45. 3 rounds. Just shooting up ammo I'd carried for a while, less than a year, in two different mags. I didn't fall in the river with it or run it through the car wash or anything weird, it just wouldn't go bang. I tried it in 3 different 1911's. I don't know if it came from the same box or not. That was the end of Federal ammo for me.

[lead_magnet]

I just shot off some spear gold dot out of a glock that was loaded into the magazines I shot it from in 2006. The Ammo was exposed to pretty much everything under the sun from Vegas summers to Colorado winters, not a single ftf. I've seen dud rounds, but they haven't been a common occurance in my experience.

[quondom fremd]

Had a bedside gun not go bang when I took it to the range.. apparently it got all gummed up.. firing pin wouldn't hit the primer hard at all.. Once I got it moving it was fine

I totally blame the ammo.

How did it get gummed up by your bedside?

Nevermind, I don't need the answer to that question.

[Monky]

How did it get gummed up by your bedside?

Nevermind, I don't need the answer to that question.

Not the right time to say lube got where it shouldn't have been.

[spqrzilla]

A bit more than 3 decades ago, I was working at an indoor gun range in California. An LAPD detective came into the range and signed up for a lane to practice in anticipation of his annual qualifications.

He pulls this snubnose revolver out of a belt holster, lines up on the paper target and "click" five or six times ( I can't recall if it was a S&W or not ... ).

He hauls it to the counter and shows me. Full cylinder, with primer indents, on each round. It turns out that he would regularly spray the thing with WD 40 thinking that was a good idea. Hadn't changed out his ammo in a year or more.

[onebadfx4]

I cycle mine yearly just cause I am paranoid. But always have a backup just in case anyways.

[RonMexico]

I think on problem with this thread is that people should be shooting
more/practicing with the ammo they carry. Is $25 work your life, if so then keep it stored in your mags for years if not shoot a magazine of carry ammo once a quarter