I had a failure to go into battery problem with one of my competition guns and prior to a match, I would remove the barrel and hand chamber each round to insure that they would chamber correctly. After 2 matches, I became very tired of this tedious process and changed to a different gun. A long way to say that I wouldn’t trust that Hellcat until the problem was corrected. I wouldn’t trust it as a carry gun. Besides, it’s not like that’s the only carry gun you have.