Lol 
that is a good excuse!!
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Brings home new Glock
Angry Wife- “why’d you buy that”
Happy me - “so my other Gun doesn’t blow up in my face”.
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Umm your wife is not Italian i am only guessing!! 
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Due to an unfortunate incident with (clears throat) Remington ammunition I make sure that every round I load into my speedloaders will chamber in the Centennial.
Ain’t going to go through that again, no sir! 
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Most of my firearms are loaded and stay that way unless I go to the range, then it’s cleaned checked and reloaded with new ammo.
As backup to my 1911 I have a XDM in .45 that I shoot very well. 
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In all seriousness, this topic is very frustrating to me. Ammo availability and cost has been killer.
I have had to buy carry ammo that is not my preferred pressure or loads at high prices. I have to test the new load in my gun, but I can’t afford to run as much as I need to to fully test. On top of that I need to periodically cycle the ammo. I’m also supposed to dry fire regularly which causes the rounds to potentially get set back.
I think rotating the ammo periodically and swapping out the ammo every year is probably the simple conservative way to do it. It’s still expensive though!
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I have never found a set back on any of my rounds that was noticeable with the naked eye in which case it isn’t a problem. Rotating the first round in is a good idea. Once a year would be fine
and it’s more of a precaution.
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I wonder how often this occurs with training ammo and we don’t even know it. We shoot it and don’t think twice.
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Honestly, I don’t even worry about. 
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Wouldn’t be an issue with any (properly made) ammo if you only chamber it once. The cheap stuff, the home brew, or the premium blend — you’d never have meaningful setback, except maybe with an awkward misfeed or other physical collision.
It’s only an issue because we practice using our defensive firearms with practice ammo and dry fire, and don’t want to throw every previously chambered round into the practice bucket.
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I’m not so sure. Set back to me seems like the boogeyman of firearms. I understand mitigating the issue with limiting how many times you chamber a round and cycling ammo, however, it essentially could happen with any round you ever chamber if it was mixed in with a bad batch.
I’ve taken training ammo and cycled it twice. I might empty the chamber for whatever reason, the round falls to the concrete floor. I visually inspect the round without any issues but then I chamber it and I don’t see what happens to the round. Maybe it got set back 
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I’d like to see tests to see how catastrophic it really is. I did some Google searching and there’s not much, but the overall gist was it’s probably not a big deal… but just in case so this.
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Sure. Like I said,
You could also be doing that to your defensive ammo. There’s lots of ways ammunition could become damaged or deformed, and it occasionally comes defective from the factory. There are tolerances built into firearms and ammunition intended to provide “safe working limits” for some level of defect. The only way to eliminate all risk is to not shoot.
I don’t think we’ve really been discussing routine light handling of “single-use” ammunition, but what might be the consequence of significant change to ammunition dimensions caused by the frequent loading and unloading of the same cartridges — which many of us perform routinely as a part of skill development and retention.
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No, I don’t consciously rotate Ammo. It sometimes gets rearranged when I reload my mags. I don’t think it’s necessary.
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Inspect and rotate. Always the way to make sure there is a bang instead of a click. I always inspect my carry firearm also. Once I had my back up with fuzz in the barrel. So I ensure that doesnt happen either
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Sounds like its time to shoot the fuzz out of the barrel 
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You know it! Gary lol
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