HighValleyRanch
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A friend was over yesterday, talking about firearms. He's been shooting for 14 years, but only recently got his CCW. I made a holster for his new Sig 365.
As he was reloading his glock I noticed that he manually loaded the first round into the chamber instead of from a magazine.
So I said that was an unusual practice.
So, is this bad, and if so, why?
Second, I noticed that he used the same round he had ejected to reload into the chamber. I expained to him about bullet setback and higher pressures, but this led me to wonder if this is overblown.
If setback does happen on loading the round by manually letting the slide slam forward, then would it be true that every round loaded when gun recycles has setback also? Which then made me wonder if ammunition manufacturers take this higher pressure from setback into account in their loadings.
Or is it just a overblown myth?
I imagine that setback is caused by the nose of the bullet hitting the loading ramp? Therefore the design of the pistol might differ to the amount of setback, if any, as well as the bullet design. He had terrible problems with the R.I.P. bullets in his glock as they would not load with the radical cuts. So I imagine that the bullet design would affect seback?
As he was reloading his glock I noticed that he manually loaded the first round into the chamber instead of from a magazine.
So I said that was an unusual practice.
So, is this bad, and if so, why?
Second, I noticed that he used the same round he had ejected to reload into the chamber. I expained to him about bullet setback and higher pressures, but this led me to wonder if this is overblown.
If setback does happen on loading the round by manually letting the slide slam forward, then would it be true that every round loaded when gun recycles has setback also? Which then made me wonder if ammunition manufacturers take this higher pressure from setback into account in their loadings.
Or is it just a overblown myth?
I imagine that setback is caused by the nose of the bullet hitting the loading ramp? Therefore the design of the pistol might differ to the amount of setback, if any, as well as the bullet design. He had terrible problems with the R.I.P. bullets in his glock as they would not load with the radical cuts. So I imagine that the bullet design would affect seback?