Give your self defense carry gun a test every once in a while….

[ThorM465]

It’s comical so many guys won’t walk around Wyoming without a pistol to take to the bathroom. Good god, how did anyone survive in the past? This paranoia is new - like one or two decades ago I would have fallen over laughing if someone on a Wyoming construction site had a pistol on them. Now I just think it’s stupid. Social media has done more to warp brains than anything in human history.

It's true that Western societies have had great periods of time when it was absurd to think it necessary to be regularly armed. However, those periods are anomalies within human history. A lack of appreciation for that historical fact is how we always seem to end up right back here where it is necessary. Truly an unfortunate reality.

The public education system combined with corporate media did more to warp brains than social media by orders of magnitude.

 

[displacedtexan]

It's true that Western societies have had great periods of time when it was absurd to think it necessary to be regularly armed. However, those periods are anomalies within human history. A lack of appreciation for that historical fact is how we always seem to end up right back here where it is necessary. Truly an unfortunate reality.

The public education system combined with corporate media did more to warp brains than social media by orders of magnitude.

Violent crime is drastically lower than it was 40 years ago when it was far less common for people to carry...

 

[*zap*]

I work with tool belt and j frame in my pocket, no issues.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Congrats?

 

[Choupique]

All the dirty failure to fire guns makes a strong case for carrying a revolver, no?

That and safety are why I like revolvers and DA/SA pistols. Revolvers are more prone to being broken than most semi autos from dropping and stuff. There is something to be said for zero reliability on the ammo for function. Not to mention the long heavy first trigger pull helps prevent NDs,

I also think it helps that the hammer has to go through its full range of motion under finger power before the springs and inertia have to do anything important If there is some crud hindering functionality, pulling the trigger hard enough will either get through it or break something. I think this is partially why glocks work so well - the trigger moves the striker some before it releases so it at least partially helps bust everything loose before the relatively weak springs have to do anything.

 

[displacedtexan]

I work with tool belt and j frame in my pocket, no issues.

I love my J frame.

But I hate it in my pocket for more than a few minutes!

 

[Thinkingman]

EXCELLENT point.

A buddy came over the other day, we decided to do some drills. He is an accomplished competitive shooter. He only had his "under the seat" glock 19 and right out the gate on a cold, double bill drill his glock would not function. The trigger reset would hang-from .5 to 2.5 seconds and required manipulation to to get it to reset.

Took it apart, it was dirty-he had subscribed to the "never clean" method and because of the lube and grime, it had fuzz/lint with it from riding under the seat.

While I won't tell another man what to do/not do, I'd highly encourage folks to test fire and clean periodically.

It's amazing to me how people glaze Glock.
They're a tool like any other.

 

[StuckoYota99]

This totally sounds like it was in the living room at first. I assume a range.

So was it ammo or gun?

I have a range on my property. It was the gun. Belly button lint had accumulated from carrying appendix. Also he has an affinity for purchasing carry guns used from pawn shops.

 

[jonesn3]

This is exactly why I replaced my XD pistols with Glocks. Had it happen more than once.

I don’t want a safe queen that I have to keep in pristine condition. Never had that issue with any of my Glocks, even under much worse conditions.

You and me both! I kept my XD pistols, but added a pair of Glocks as a result of the story I mentioned with the XDM. I have total confidence in each of those.