Stretch Spring Sunday and Op Check your Go Gear.
Well when you cannot get to outta da house to exercise your 2A, what is your favorite Man Cave 2A pass time?
I had to give up reloading years ago because of too many PCS moves.
At a minimum, how often do you consider a few minutes to rotate and check loaded mags, stretch the springs (so to speak) and do general visual, wipe down or light maintenance on your type of firearm(s)?
Edit add: I am one person who has to go through my Go Bag and other associated items at least once a month. Reason = I forget the little things that I have put in the same place (pockets, etc,) since I do not handle daily. If I cannot remember after a couple of weeks what I am carying for 'a need', how can I remember under pressure. I have to remind myself.
All advice accepted. I'll reserve the right to consider what is applicable to me.
Semper Fidelis
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[–] 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.