another thing i have always wondered is whether the magazine spring can get damaged if you leave bullets in mag for long periods ??
another thing i have always wondered is whether the magazine spring can get damaged if you leave bullets in mag for long periods ??
To my mind (lots of opinion here), the biggest risks with range rounds are a round which is loaded significantly overpressure (causing detonation in the chamber), or a round which has no powder in it (a squib round). The detonating round is the biggest risk and would likely damage the gun significantly - or blow it up (google "blown up handgun image). The squib is a lesser risk, if you're paying attention, as it would leave a bullet in the barrel of the handgun which would cause a blown up gun if you were inattentive enough to manually cycle after the failure-to-eject that a squib would cause and then fire the next round.
In terms of damaging the barrel, through excess copper fouling, I wouldn't say that's a serious issue. Personally, I clean my pistol every two hundred or so rounds by runing a patch coated with bore cleaner (like Hoppes) through the barrel and leaving the barrel to 'soak' for a few hours. Copper fouling comes out pretty easily after that.
I have read, on Gunsite of one of the well respected members not cleaning his Glock for 1000 rounds, and it still functioning perfectly, so I might be being paranoid by cleaning it so regularly![]()
The difference between pizza and your opinion is that I asked for pizza.
I treat it very well
Downside to shooting at people is that said people are generally armed, and shoot back
And no, not a pea shooter. Filthy hobbitses talking mean about my pretty Sig.
I've read mixed comments on this. One camp seem to think that leaving rounds in a magazine (i.e. spring is under permanent compression) does shorten the life of the spring. The other camp believes that springs are weakened by the constant cycling (i.e. compression converted to tension) of the magazine spring.
Based on what little I know of mechanical engineering, I believe that the cycling of the spring causes fatigue, not permanent compression.
The difference between pizza and your opinion is that I asked for pizza.
I know. Given their legend and comparing to my experience, field competency is tested often enough to warrant psychological flaw more often than not. In all NATO supporting armies, this immediately relieves you of your gun-toting rights.
People change a lot when they've been shot at and have shot at other people - Not everyone is cut out for it.
Just to let you know I am only joking. 90% of the job you sit and do nothing. I am not going into the army just to see action. I have researched the shit out of the royal marines and currently they are not being deployed in the middle east at the moment. I am doing this so I have something to be proud of. I don't want to be an idle person anymore.
2003 - 2007 Légion étrangère 13th DBLE, Stationed in UAE under the French DCA, was part of multiple Joint Operations around Iraq/Afghan. Basic defense though.
@Tsar, I'm just hoping you're readyYou can be deployed pretty fast, no real warning and then things take a turn within you. Make sure you're head strong and become an Officer if you can
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