Here's a test for you...
1. How quickly can you field strip your carry weapon, and reassemble it?
2. Can you do it in the dark?
There's not necessarily a correct answer for the first question. It's not a task that one normally has to do in under 20-30 seconds. But if you cannot perform a field strip without referring to your manual, then take some time this weekend and learn to do it.
Once you can do it effortlessly, try putting on a blindfold. Learn to check the chamber without your eyes. You may find, as I did, that replacing the slide is a bit harder when you can't visually line it up... or perhaps you'll need to learn how each end of the recoil spring feels, so that it's not put in backwards.
I don't know that it's a skill that I'll ever need, but it's nice knowing that I have it... and I believe that every gun owner can benefit from learning it as well.
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Well, "field stripping" my bolt-action is just... taking out the bolt... so I can do that blindfolded, during a hurricane, with one hand. My SKS and my pistol are both simple enough that I actually have taken them apart and put them back together in the dark (not _totally_ dark, but close.)
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