[briandg]

The bottom line is that autopistol ammunition isn't meant to be chambered an unreasonable number of times. That's a basic limitation of autopistols and autopistol ammunition and nothing's going to change it. The solution isn't to try to load the pistol using a non-recommended technique and then hope you can detect any problems caused by that approach, it's to treat the ammunition as it is intended to be treated.

Chamber it a few times and then discard it or use it at the range. I'd say that it makes sense to combine that approach with a careful re-evaluation of whether it's really necessary to load/reload one's pistol as frequently as some folks seem to do it.

Even if one isn't constantly rechambering ammunition, there are still other sound reasons why self-defense ammunition should be cycled through to the range on some sort of a reasonable schedule.

Agreed.