I would try the Remington 1 1/2 if you can locate some. If these do not go off you may reasonably suspect a gun problem.
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I would try the Remington 1 1/2 if you can locate some. If these do not go off you may reasonably suspect a gun problem.
I can tolerate a gun that’s picky on primers for a range toy but it would be my last choice to carry.
But I’m glad we all get make our own choices.
Agreed. Just suggesting the 1 1/2s as a diagnostic tool, not a desirable go to plan.
I'm sorry to those I might offend but I would not be caught dead with most of the slide guns that they offer today.
if carrying in these woods you wouldn't last long between the moose grizzly wolves and other furry demon's if you're gun was inaccurate Chinese junk but heck what do I know people that visit from the city think I'm crazy for carrying a 5 lb hunk of iron on my waist that could sprain someone's wrist if held wrong ask me how I know. btw its fired every Time I have shot it but I roll my own an keep it in working shape. Moa accuracy
sorry for the rant
After giving the TCP a thorough cleaning, I took it out and tested it yesterday, and all seems well. Even the loads that were primed with the suspected PMC or Priv-Partisan primers all went bang, not only in the TCP, but in the 2/ea Keltec P3AT's that I own.
I suspect now that the TCP may have gotten some dirt, grime, lint or whatever in it as I had it in the ATV's saddle bags for who knows how long before calling upon it for service. Never again! I'm now gonna get those guns out more often and check their reliability.
I tell my students the worse thing they can do to their gun is carry it.
So many people are obsessed with cleaning their guns after shooting them every time, but then carry them and don’t clean them for 6 months or more.
The worst thing I ever did to a gun was forgetting my coveralls were unzipped and then changing a tire, rolling around in fine Texas red dirt/sand, mostly sand.
By the time I realized it the slide would barely move.
It was a borrowed truck and borrowed gun.
Thankfully Uncle Ben was a rancher who had 2 boys of his own who tore up more stuff than we could ever dream of and understood things happen.
Just had a student in for Ccw renewal class a month ago, he brought an LC9 in with the slide stuck and a round in the chamber.
Thing was rusted shut, I beat it open, cleaned it the best I could and oiled it good.
It shot ok after that.
He claimed that one was just sitting in his house.
His son did his gun cleaning for him, he wouldn’t listen when I told him to get his own cleaning kit.
Some people do not need guns.
Speaking of all this my EDC LCP is overdue for a cleaning, probably been a month or two since I cleaned it.
Way overdue.
I really need to start keeping track of it on a calendar.
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My TCP survived going for a swim while frogging one night.
Got back to the house dried it off and oiled it up.
Gun and ammo shot fine.
My phone was never the same again.
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I pull mine out and handle it evey day first thing in the morning. I'll proceed to remove the cylinder and check out the bore and look for any dust or grime if I'm carrying my bfr I look over the shells if it's my 1858 I'll check caps and make sure it's in the safety notch before I put it on. I also shoot the 58 once a week just to make sure my powder is good.if I need my guns to go bang they do
I'd switch to something else, or get a bayonet for it.
A 14 in bayonet might look a little unorthodox on a pistol w a 5in bbl
I normally go to the range twice a week at least once a week will fire a minimum of 1 magazine through my cary gun clean it and back in the holster.
You have a birthday. Use that day of the month as your "cleaning day" the rest of the year.
Using that date is easy to remember, and if you don't clean your CC firearm, you may not get another B-day to celebrate, if it fails to fire/malfunctions when ya really really need it, since you did not clean it. Don't forget the magazine(s).
;)
Just a thought to help remember to clean it.
;)
G'Luck on whatever day ya pick.
:)