Replaced my carry ammo today

[HayesGreener]

I carry Hornady 220 grain Critical Duty in my daily carry. I replace my carry ammo twice per year but I'm a couple months late this cycle. I usually buy two, 20 round boxes. This is great ammo, and I know it works after kiĺling some feral hogs with it. I prefer using my 10mm on hogs in the traps but this stuff works just fine in a pinch. But dang it has got pricey at $30 per box of 20. But quality is never cheap.

 

[trader]

these? https://www.hornadyle.com/handgun-ammunition/45-autop-220-gr-flexlock#!/

 

[HayesGreener]

these? https://www.hornadyle.com/handgun-ammunition/45-autop-220-gr-flexlock#!/

Yes

 

[Jester560]

Never understood this.

 

[HayesGreener]

Never understood this.

Can I help?

 

[Jester560]

Can I help?

Probably not.

There are people that still shoot WW2 era ammo and it always goes bang. Even more people shooting Vietnam era ammo and it always goes bang. I personally am loading match ammo with 1972 vintage primers and always goes bang. Why change carry ammo twice a year? Seriously!?!

This is one of those crazy conspiracy theories that makes the ammo companies erect. Ammo doesnt go bad in 6 months or 6 years or 60 years. Your grandchildren will have grandchildren that shoots your refuse.

 

[LDB]

I thought you switched to some 210gr. option or 185gr. or 230gr. or whatever other replacement. You rotated it, which does also replace it, but with more of the same not a new replacement choice. A tiny particle in the overall total of my confusion has cleared.

 

[Lab4Us]

Probably not.

There are people that still shoot WW2 era ammo and it always goes bang. Even more people shooting Vietnam era ammo and it always goes bang. I personally am loading match ammo with 1972 vintage primers and always goes bang. Why change carry ammo twice a year? Seriously!?!

This is one of those crazy conspiracy theories that makes the ammo companies erect. Ammo doesnt go bad in 6 months or 6 years or 60 years. Your grandchildren will have grandchildren that shoots your refuse.

Think it depends on what “change” means. I try to shoot a magazine or two of my carry ammo about once a quarter…so I kind of retain the “feel” of the round upon firing, make sure my sights are on with it, and ensure my gun continues to have no hiccups with it. After I shoot those couple of magazines, that were my carry magazines, I load new rounds into the carry magazines. Always has, and will continue to, seem prudent “to me”. So, in effect, I “change” my carry ammo four times a year.

I personally don’t get folks that never practice with their carry ammo…

 

[Jester560]

Think it depends on what “change” means. I try to shoot a magazine or two of my carry ammo about once a quarter…so I kind of retain the “feel” of the round upon firing, make sure my sights are on with it, and ensure my gun continues to have no hiccups with it. After I shoot those couple of magazines, that were my carry magazines, I load new rounds into the carry magazines. Always has, and will continue to, seem prudent “to me”. So, in effect, I “change” my carry ammo four times a year.

I personally don’t get folks that never practice with their carry ammo…

I shoot what I carry and carry what I shoot.

 

[UC_Guy 1971]

I only change duty ammo when I have to. For off-duty guns that are only carried randomly or I have to purchase myself, I never swap it out. 10mm, .357 mag, .40 are pricey.