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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
How many is "enough"? I mentioned Seyfreid earlier; in his competitive days, he claimed over 100,000 rounds per year through his two guns between daily practice and competition. He went on for years like that, never rebarreling either gun. Most of us don't shoot that much.
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Depends on whether we're talking jacketed or not. I've put 30k+ rounds through my original 'go to' single stack and haven't noticed any degradation in accuracy or velocity. A drop in velocity (for any given known load) would indicate worn lands in the barrel.
My Limited gun, on the other hand, (.40 S&W double stack) digested mostly jacketed rounds due to the ungodly amount of smoke that lead bullets create in that caliber. That gun had about 40k rounds through it when I sold it and the barrel was starting to lose velocity. It still wasn't anywhere near where I'd consider re barreling.
That being said, I've seen guys need to put new barrels in their guns at 10k rounds. Repeated rapid fire, without allowing the gun to cool down, will destroy a barrel in a heartbeat. My open gun got so darned hot that I'd stick it in a cooler while loading mags and resetting targets.
Gratuitous spoon photo attached...and, no, I wouldn't try to CCW that.
