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Yes, it's easy to get into a comfortable routine and just load up the magazines and the range bag and head out to shoot. This may work well in "normal" shooting but in any sort of "timed" shooting, having something go wrong will just kill you, both on the streets and on the competition stage.
For awhile there I was drop checking all my ammo into a barrel to make sure the clearances were good to go. After doing that for months, I can of slacked off and never had any problems.
Recently dug into my ammo stash for some 9mm that had been purchased during the big ammo shortage and used that for a rare USPSA Classifier match.
Sure enough, I had one round that was ever so slightly out of tolerance at the base and my trusty Glock 34 had a rare malfunction due to the case lodging in the barrel.
We found the bullet (after I had taken a DNF on that stage) and when I drop checked it, sure enough it was just large enough to NOT be acceptable.
So, in the days following that, I ordered up a set of drop check dies for the 9mm, 380, 40 and 45 rounds.
Yes, I could always just drop check each bullet into a spare barrel (which I used to do) but having a dedicated die for that should make it a bit easier. I hate actually checking bullets, but taking a DNF on a stage is just not worth it moving forward.
AD
Yes, it's easy to get into a comfortable routine and just load up the magazines and the range bag and head out to shoot. This may work well in "normal" shooting but in any sort of "timed" shooting, having something go wrong will just kill you, both on the streets and on the competition stage.
For awhile there I was drop checking all my ammo into a barrel to make sure the clearances were good to go. After doing that for months, I can of slacked off and never had any problems.
Recently dug into my ammo stash for some 9mm that had been purchased during the big ammo shortage and used that for a rare USPSA Classifier match.
Sure enough, I had one round that was ever so slightly out of tolerance at the base and my trusty Glock 34 had a rare malfunction due to the case lodging in the barrel.
We found the bullet (after I had taken a DNF on that stage) and when I drop checked it, sure enough it was just large enough to NOT be acceptable.
So, in the days following that, I ordered up a set of drop check dies for the 9mm, 380, 40 and 45 rounds.
Yes, I could always just drop check each bullet into a spare barrel (which I used to do) but having a dedicated die for that should make it a bit easier. I hate actually checking bullets, but taking a DNF on a stage is just not worth it moving forward.
AD