Do you test your guns with what you carry in them?

[DELL37]

Yes. Before I consider a gun suitable for carry it needs to fire at least 500 rds of every kind of ammo I can fine AND 100 rds of my carry ammo without a single failure.

I carry Critical Duty or Defense in everything and honestly I've never ad an issue in anything but a Taurus.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by saxondale351

I don't believe in testing a gun with defense loads. I just don't see the point. If your worried about them going bang I would trade loads, if you want to see what they do in ballistic gelatine then I would try to find a youtube video on that load. To just go shoot them at paper is not really going to do that much good. The only time I would do it is if it was particularly hot load like a +P and I wanted to see the recoil of it in my particular gun.

Theroretically, a gun should cycle anything you put in it, however, I have handguns that will cycle ball ammo and not wad or semi was cutter's. Same when it comes to the Hydrashock's. I would prefer to know before hand if my gun is going to go bang, more than once, before I encounter a bad guy.

[Kreutz]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lee

I have seen many people load their handguns with hollow points but never tested their guns with anything but ball ammo.

Seriously?