{"id":7276,"date":"2022-05-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:35:24","slug":"keep-your-powder-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/keep-your-powder-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The current (July\/August 2022) issue of&nbsp;<em>American Handgunner<\/em>&nbsp;carries my article on testing the Smith &amp; Wesson CSX 9mm pistol that was introduced a few months ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was very much impressed with the gun, and wound up purchasing the test sample for personal use.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noted in the article that there was a single misfire in the course of the test.&nbsp;&nbsp;The pistol itself worked perfectly.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, one volunteer member of the test team filled a magazine with some ammo that had been left in the flooded bed of a pickup truck; total immersion had left it badly corroded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those rounds did not go \u201cbang\u201d when the hammer dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interesting thing is that the rest of them \u2013 I don\u2019t recall if that shooter was using the ten-round magazine, or the twelve rounder \u2013&nbsp;<em>did&nbsp;<\/em>go off despite the abuse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, the gun couldn\u2019t be blamed for that.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor the shooter, who was smart enough not to use the compromised cartridge for \u201cserious business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it was a reminder that we have to take care of our ammunition, just as we take care of our guns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I discussed the matter in greater detail in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/thoughts-on-ammunition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2007 article in\u00a0<em>Backwoods Home<\/em><\/a>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the points therein are worth reviewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current (July\/August 2022) issue of&nbsp;American Handgunner&nbsp;carries my article on testing the Smith &amp; Wesson CSX 9mm pistol that was introduced a few months ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was very much impressed with the gun, and wound up purchasing the test sample for personal use.&nbsp; I noted in the article that there was a single misfire in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}