Another thing kinda off topic but in my concealed carry class this morning I was told by the instructor that semi autos on avg fail every 7 rounds but didn't get much further into it..if that's true I'm assuming it's not taking user error into consideration as well as gun brand. He said a cop he knew that was involved in a shoot out carried 13 rounds and his gun malfunctioned twice during the incident. Now I found this to be very unsettling and almost considered a revolver but I'm skeptical on that because there are so many possible variables. I have fired about 10k rounds thru my glocks and the only malfunctions were ammo and two limp wrists when I first bought my g21..any thoughts on that also?jakedrennan45 said:
For sure thanks. I figured resetting the slide was less damaging than shooting but wanted to make sure. I sometimes dry fire hundreds of times each day so I wanted to be clear I wasn't making my recoil spring unreliable.Ghost23 said:
Your Glock never feels a thing in the recoil spring when dry firing... Now many GLOCK owners (myself included) have dry fired their guns hundreds of thousands of time without failure but GLOCK now says to include a Snapcap during practice like this.
Well you kinda took that out of context but I thought that also seemed outrageous.jujutsuka said:
Ya I wonder where he got that data? Loljakedrennan45 said:
I'm just guessing it must be based on the overall reliability of semi autos since day 1. While there are plenty of crappy guns out there that bring down the numbers I still think its basically irrelevant because modern day semi autos made by a reputable manufacturer don't have problems like that. I'm just going to dismiss that part of the class.nicolasfroelich said:
And alot of older firearms, especially the cheaper manufacturers. Firing pins on many firearms 50 years ago were made out of much more brittle metal and they just won't hold up to dry firing unless the pin has been upgraded/dated.
