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Just an observation

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I see this quite a bit, and it always makes me :headscratch

(paraphrasing here...)
"Gun for sale! Like new condition! Shot only 20 times and it was my every day carry for two years!"
Really? You only shot your weapon 20 / 50 / 100 / "other low round count" times and it was your every day carry? How can someone, anyone, in their right mind trust a weapon they fired so little? I'm sure the # varies, but man...I need to see a few hundred before I even consider it ready for EDC. I laugh when I see the ads like this, but then it makes me wonder...

Anyways...back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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Seems to be more common then not... one of the other sites I frequent was having a discussion similar to this the other day about people that make claims about reliability of their <insert pistol here>.
I fired 100 rounds and no issue, this pistol is totally reliable!
The general consensuses was... given that some modern platforms have been have been going 25,000-35,000 rounds between *any* failure anything less then 500-1000 consecutive rounds without an issue should be considered unreliable.
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When I took my first CHL class, there was a person there qualifying with a 357 mag revolver that
he hadn't shot in years.

Maybe it comes with being a "firearms enthusiast" but I can't imagine that. I actually 'practiced' with my
gun before taking the class.
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I also never understood why buyers care about "low round counts". If someone told me they had 3,000-4,000 rounds through their pistol, I wouldn't think twice about it.
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pbwalker wrote:I see this quite a bit, and it always makes me :headscratch

(paraphrasing here...)
"Gun for sale! Like new condition! Shot only 20 times and it was my every day carry for two years!"
Really? You only shot your weapon 20 / 50 / 100 / "other low round count" times and it was your every day carry? How can someone, anyone, in their right mind trust a weapon they fired so little? I'm sure the # varies, but man...I need to see a few hundred before I even consider it ready for EDC. I laugh when I see the ads like this, but then it makes me wonder...

Anyways...back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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I "routinely" carried my PPS without breaking it in, but only because I hadn't had a chance to take it to the range yet. Days, weeks, and maybe even a small # of months, I get, but years? I wouldn't be that trusting even with a Glock (before they had their Gen4 issues).
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