[–] drakesdoom2 ago
Find some place to put a few magazines worth of ammo for your carry pistol down range weekly. Then clean and reload it.
[–] drakesdoom2 ago
I mean technically since you don't have to clean and you don't put wear on the springs. But that's like throwing steak away so you don't have to clean your grill.
[–] drakesdoom2 ago
What to actually shoot your pistol, clean it, lubricate it, load it with good ammo.
More often then not people can't get a door at 10 yards, haven't cleaned their pistol ever, still have factory grease in it, their carry ammo is green it's so old.
Do you know how hilarious it is to see someone talk trash about how much better off a shot they are and then do all of the above. Unloads their green copper hollow points for future use, can't stay 100% on a full size target at 5 yards, has 3 malfunctions in the first magazine of their perfect Glock.
What the fuck are they ready for? Dying with a jammed pistol in hand?
[–] ArchmageMordenkainen 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Dry fire drills. If you can't get live trigger time, you can practice at home. One of my favorites, that anyone can do, is the dime test. Take your cary pistol, balance a dime on the front sight, get into your firing stance, and dry fire repeatedly (obviously use a snapcap if dry-firing your pistol isn't safe) until the dime falls off. Then put it back on, and start again. Try to get as many trigger pulls as you can before the dime falls off, it's like Hacky Sack for carry pistols.
Edit: Also, for some of your other questions: I think you should switch out your carry ammo at least once a year, to make sure it stays consistent. Don't be that guy that buys a single box of hollows, loads them into his mag, then forgets about them. Make sure your plinking ammo has the same POI as your carry ammo--you'd be surprised how many boutique "high performance" loads have extremely different points of impact from the regular stuff. As for stretching your mag springs, I believe that's unnecessary and will actually reduce your mag spring's life span. Springs don't wear out from being compressed, they wear out from being repeatedly stressed and unstressed. So if you're regularly taking out your magazine springs and stretching/unstretching them, you're actually slightly reducing their lifespan. Stretching a spring is something you should only do if the spring has already become weak/underpowered, and even then stretching is just a temporary fix--the fact that you have to stretch is like a warning light that it's time to replace that spring.