The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - Repeat cycling of the same round can cause primer failure.

aparootsa · April 10, 2012, 10:06 PM

Gotta say this is one that had never ever crossed my mind, and this is exactly how I treat my HD ammo. Since I shoot many more FMJ rounds than I could afford to buy if they were JHPs I'd just spit the JHPs out of the mag and load it up with range ammo every trip. I figured this kept me cycling my mags and that was good enough. I guess this means that I'll need to buy a big batch of HD ammo and just shoot a mag of HD ammo when I go to the range. Be a fair bit more expensive to shoot, but hey, it's worth knowing the first round will go bang, right?

April 10, 2012, 10:06 PM	#2
aparootsa Member Join Date: March 29, 2009 Posts: 72	Gotta say this is one that had never ever crossed my mind, and this is exactly how I treat my HD ammo. Since I shoot many more FMJ rounds than I could afford to buy if they were JHPs I'd just spit the JHPs out of the mag and load it up with range ammo every trip. I figured this kept me cycling my mags and that was good enough. I guess this means that I'll need to buy a big batch of HD ammo and just shoot a mag of HD ammo when I go to the range. Be a fair bit more expensive to shoot, but hey, it's worth knowing the first round will go bang, right?