I often hear of people who only shoot a few familiarization rounds through a defensive gun then no longer shoot it. A gentleman on another forum remarked that his Ruger LCP has proven reliable over the 200 or so rounds that he's fired it, and that he will only shoot maybe another 100 rounds in any given year. I used to own a Kahr P9 that was my main CCW for awhile... until the day I decided to shoot up the carry ammo that was in it at the range, and it immediately had a double-feed after the first shot! My confidence in it was immediately shaken, and even though it never jammed again after that I didn't want to trust it so I sold it.
Fast forward to the past couple of years, my pocket carry (another Kahr, this time a P380) started having light-strike issues which quickly got worse, and I stopped carrying it until it could be sorted out. I changed to my Kel-Tec P-32 in the meantime, which I'd fired off and on in the past and had proven reliable. Well, I decided to practice with it the other week, and it started to spontaneously disassemble on me! The takedown pin kept walking out and would jam the gun. So I had to give up on carrying that as well until I could get it fixed.
It just goes to show, you can't simply fam-fire a gun and then do nothing but carry it all the time. You need to let it take its turn at the range every so often just to be sure everything is still working properly. Don't assume that just because you haven't been shooting it that it's still fine. And definitely don't let your carry ammo get too stale or beat up from repeated chambering. Any equipment that hasn't been double-checked or recently proven shouldn't be trusted.
Fast forward to the past couple of years, my pocket carry (another Kahr, this time a P380) started having light-strike issues which quickly got worse, and I stopped carrying it until it could be sorted out. I changed to my Kel-Tec P-32 in the meantime, which I'd fired off and on in the past and had proven reliable. Well, I decided to practice with it the other week, and it started to spontaneously disassemble on me! The takedown pin kept walking out and would jam the gun. So I had to give up on carrying that as well until I could get it fixed.
It just goes to show, you can't simply fam-fire a gun and then do nothing but carry it all the time. You need to let it take its turn at the range every so often just to be sure everything is still working properly. Don't assume that just because you haven't been shooting it that it's still fine. And definitely don't let your carry ammo get too stale or beat up from repeated chambering. Any equipment that hasn't been double-checked or recently proven shouldn't be trusted.