Rich,
Just in our issued weapon(s).
Anything personal, we can do what we want to.
In fact, if we own another Sig 229 .357 we are allowed to keep the brass from our issued weapon and reload it and use if for our personal weapons.
Many of our guys do that. I don't own another .357.
The Sig they gave us is a bit different from the tradition 229 model. Shaved everything ruff off the front of the slide, changed some of the internal components (springs and such). As a result our agency has agreed to send every weapon back after every 5000 rounds go thru it. That is one of the reasons we MUST use only issued (Spear Dot Gold Government Specs) ammo. They want to see what breaks when.
Initially, they felt they would issue new guns to us after 5000 rounds. But they have held up much better than anticipated. We have weapons that have had 50,000 rounds gone thru them with nothing more than re-springing them...
They seem to wear fast to a certain point and then stop wearing for the most part. We have test weapons where we take them to the range and run 100 rounds thru them at a time and never lube them, keep them dry for ever. For the most part they show wear marks but fire just as accurate at 25 yards.
