Always test carry ammo!

[thughes]

Let this be a lesson to you. I saw a post next door about an XDS 9mm that wouldn't feed Hornaday Critical Defense ammo. My carry gun is the XDS 9mm and I have almost 1500 rounds through it from day one without a hiccup. I followed the "test your carry ammo" rule when I bought my first box of Speer Gold Dot carry ammo and ran a few mags through her no problem. Recently I picked up a quantity of Hornaday Critical Defense 135gn +p to run in the XDS and my Sig 2022. Didn't bother testing it in the XDS because it has eaten everything I feed it so far but I did test it in the Sig (ran flawlessly, what do you expect from a Sig?). After reading the post at NYF, I cycled my XDS by hand to test the feed of the Hornady.......sht! Jammed up like a mofo! Back to the Gold Dot for my Springfield, glad I discovered this before I actually had a real need to use it! (credit joeydiver at NYF)

[Guest]

very smart, very true. I do always the same when buying new defense ammo, or buried deep in the ammo can +P's.. each gun gets a mag of it's Xcalibur, with 5 regs and 2 +P's to test, (or lil more fun to mix em and feel it)..it's good to do also, because you need to know what it feels like, how it gives a little extra ummffhh in the barrel and stuff. Then, if and when you should ever need it, you've got a better idea what to expect.

[EvilD]

rookie mistake, you know better than that.

[dsdmmat]

The old saying is never go to battle with an unproven rifle. The same applies for handguns and carry loads.

[thughes]

rookie mistake, you know better than that.

I do now (no longer a rookie, eh?)

[Lord Timelord]

You should see me doing a 7+1 mag dump on my Kel-Tec PF-9 with the Winchester PDX1 +P Loads. I can keep almost all of them in the A Zone at 7 Yards, with a couple sometimes in the B Zone. That is NOT easy to do on a 12.8 Ounce Pocket Pistol!

[Calculon]

Call me a rookie. Been a while since I ran some carry ammo through my edc. I know what I'm doing this weekend. Thanks for posting.

[HighlandLofts]

Same with any gun in your collection, they have to be shot and patterned with different makes and types of ammo to see what cycles and hits the closest to the point of aim. Wheather is be a old 22 rifle, centerfire rifle, handgun or shotgun. They all have a certain brand & type of ammunition that they do better with. I'm up to nine 38spl & 357 magnum revolvers, one of these days I'm takeing all of them out and shoot different types & brands of 38spl through them and see what each one likes in 38spl. Then I'll shoot all of the 357 magnums with different brands & types of ammo to see which type of 357 ammo they like. I'm up to four 327 Federal Magnum revolvers that I'll do the same with t0 see what each one of them likes. I'll be shooting 32 Shorts, 32 Longs, 32 H&R Magnums and 327 Federal magnum loads and will see what gun likes what load. I'm courious to see which revolver I shoot the best with when the feild trip takes place. I would NEVER CARRY A GUN HAT I HAVEN"T PATTEREND!. I bought a Bond Cowboy Defender Derringer in 45LC/410 shotgun a couple of years ago to carry occasionally, the gun dealer I bought it from said the best load to carry in that gun is the 410 PDX ammo. I bought some as well as rifled slugs, buckshot, in 410 and a ew types of 45LC ammo. At 21 feet them PDX shells the three dics hit three inches low and four inches to the left of point of aim consistantly, meanwhile the twelve BBs were all over and off the four foot by four foot cardboard backstop. So much for his so called professional oppinion on PDX ammo. For carry purposes the best load at twenty-one feet out of my Bond 45LC/410 is the 2 1/2" buckshot, nine inch pattern at twenty-one feet. When sighting in any new to me gun I take sampler packs of ammo and see what they like. I buy a lot of older 22 rimfire rifles and they are all different on their likes and dislikes.