Can storing a Semi automatic pistol with the slide back cause problems? I just realized when I checked my safe the other day that I left my P226 with the slide locked back. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary but I could see Spring issues with it being left that way for a few weeks.

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Springs wear from repeated compression/extension. I don't believe that storing a spring compressed hurts it. Same goes for loaded mags.

Springs wear from repeated compression/extension. I don't believe that storing a spring compressed hurts it. Same goes for loaded mags.

 

 

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My 590 12 g has had a full magazine loaded for three years now....NO ill effects...

 

 

 

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My 590 12 g has had a full magazine loaded for three years now....NO ill effects...

 

Not disagreeing but if its been loaded for three years how do you know its OK? I'm assuming you periodically shoot it but keep it loaded at home?

 

 

Not disagreeing but if its been loaded for three years how do you know its OK? I'm assuming you periodically shoot it but keep it loaded at home?

 

Valid statement....it is kept in the safe and shot once a year..... now from a training standpoint that is not good...yeah I know....

But that being said..I Have never noticed ANY ill effects from the times it is

Sitting stagnent loaded on the off use times..

 

 

fair enough just wondering

know a guy who left one locked back, spring was weak, if you know a shop that has a pull gauge you can check it, i check mine with a fish scale..

If springs wore out from static load, wouldn't all of our cars/trucks be low-riders?

If springs wore out from static load, wouldn't all of our cars/trucks be low-riders?

But does the auto not get driven causing the springs to compress?

The idea that a stressed body will fatigue is "stress relaxation" and as I understand it, it's only exists in polymers. Metals don't resist strain the same way so I don't think it applies.

 

But it has been a while since those classes.

But does the auto not get driven causing the springs to compress?

 

Yeah, and it's the compression and rebound that causes the springs to wear. Just like a recoil spring.

If springs wore out from static load, wouldn't all of our cars/trucks be low-riders?

 

They do wear out you just don not notice it because it is so gradual,, ten years later you load your truck and the next thing you know you have 500 lbs in 1/2 ton truck and the bumper is on the ground..LOl..