OK, you can think what you want, but I did a bad thing. After firing my Rohrbaugh quite a bit between late 2004 and early 2005, I cleaned it up good, lubed, loaded it, put it in my pocket holster, and left it. Around that time, I got fairly sick and dropped somewhat out of the shooting sports. I kept carrying, though, and did get to the range and practice a bit with my main carry piece (a Wilson Combat Defender). The R9S saw a LOT of pocket carry duty during this time.
I never unloaded it. I never cleaned it. I just kept carrying it. Probably about 50% of my carry time, the R9S was with me. I'd occassionally wipe it down, or blow lint/dust off of it.
This continued for
14 months.Yeah, I know - prior to this "dark year" I always practiced regularly with my pocket gun, and on the rare occassions where I didn't hit the range with it, it would get cleaned/relubed at least every 6 weeks or so.
So, yesterday I went to the range. And decided to see how my little R9S would do! Set up a sillouette target at about 8 yards, and fired. Went through the entire 7 rounds of Speer Gold Dots without a problem - all fired fine, all fed and ejected fine. Excellent!
I popped in my spare magazine, and fired off all 5 rounds - and had a failure to feed on the 6th (final) round in the magazine. The round was partially in the chamber, but the slide was back a good half-inch or so. Pushing forward on the slide got the round moving and the slide fully into battery, and it then fired fine. I don't think I limp-wristed it, so not sure what happened there.
A third magazine fired without incident.
So there you have it - a good R9S loaded and carried heavily in a pocket for about 14 months without even unchambering the round will still fire fine. If only that one FTF hadn't happened, I'd be completely thrilled.
