That's pretty much what I'd write. Heck, I'll even clean a gun if I fire a single round through it. I always figure that any carbon, even in a well-lubed weapon, increases wear on the parts. Keeping that cleaned off makes for a longer service life.
My safe is a pain in the butt to unload and reload with the long guns in the back rows. I usually just wipe down and relube the safe queens every year or two, and that's a few hours, in and of itself. I should probably program times to do a few at a time.
That predates the internet. But it isn't my GP100. Anyone can treat his own guns how he sees fit. But...
One straight clip holds 20 rounds. Upon chambering a round from a full straight clip, 19 remain in the straight clip. A tactical reload requires that the magazine be changed before bolt/slide lock, so after firing 18 rounds, one round will be left in the magazine. Therefore, Johnny can fire up to 18 rounds and still do a tactical reload.
Yeah, but if he'd fired the 19th round, the magazine would have been empty. You have to leave at least a round in the magazine so it can be reinserted if the second one gets emptied. Yeah, it's probably better to have about half the mag left for a tactical reload, but for a math question, one left is as little as you could have remaining.
Yeah, that's what I said. He chambers the first one, fires 18--that leaves one in the chamber and one in the magazine. You have to leave at least one in the magazine for it to be a tactical reload. And in order to have one left in the magazine, one must be left in the chamber, too. That's a total of 18 rounds fired. Ta-daaaa!🎼
I've run synthetic in my truck since day whatever it was I got my first oil change. Every 5000-7000 miles, it gets changed, and the engine is still good to go at over 120,000 miles knock on wood. I want that truck for at least another 10 years. Heck, I might even just put a new engine into it when this one goes kaput around 300K, just because I don't want the remote shut-off feature that's going to probably be mandated in a year or two, based on what I've been hearing.
I had a feeling you were going to say that. That's one very legitimate philosophy about tactical reloads. Another philosophy is that a tactical reload is executed a bit more quickly--when there's a break in the action, and you want to slip in the fresh magazine while keeping the old one to reinsert if the new one goes dry. Ideally, you would have about half of the magazine still filled when you execute it, but for the purposes of a math problem, you go all the way to the lowest possible number remaining in the magazine, which is one.
I never bought into that cylinder shut-off system. It seems like it would invite uneven wear on the engine components. If you think about it, when all cylinders are firing, less gas is needed because the engine requires less to be injected with each intake stroke to maintain a given cruising speed, while more would need to be injected into each cylinder if fewer cylinders were used to maintain a given cruising speed. Sure, there might be a speed curve along which those fewer cylinders would maintain the speed more efficiently, but I'll bet that that part of the curve is a LOT smaller than the part of the curve along which all cylinders firing would be more efficient.
Yeah, the Frontier is what I have. I thought the 5-speed auto was something amazing after having had a four-speed auto in the royal heap of garbage Silverado that preceded it. Now, the new Frontier comes with an 8 or 9-speed automatic. My five-speed and engine combo still sometimes break traction going into third when I really step on it going up an on ramp onto the freeway.
And speaking of potential issues, it sure would be nice if manuals were still a ready option. If you want to eliminate issues, those are really the way to go. Sure, there's some clutch tightening that's needed from time to time, but that's minor compared to what can go wrong with autos. And when it comes to going downhill in long, steep stretches, you don't have to keep pumping the breaks.
I have a Mosin Nagant for which I actually have to punch the bore after every five rounds, or the groups will open up into something as big as a basketball. For the first five rounds, I'll get great groups of a bit under two inches at 100 yards, but it's all over the place after that.
Thanks for helping make some sense of that. I'm hoping that the bore smooths out with use.
Cleaning a weapon is a user-level task. It is not the armorer's job. I would have crushed anyone who tried to make my armorers clean their weapon for them.
🤣 Too right!
