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Why I Want My Gun to Fail

When I was on my church's security team they paid for professional training for us.

Every training session included malfunction drills.

The trainer would have somebody else load our magazine and put dummy rounds in it.

We would through the course of Fire and the dummy rounds would simulate a malfunction and we'd have to clear the malfunction. Sometimes the guy would put two or three dummy rounds in a row in your gun.

It was good training except you knew a malfunction was coming but it was still good practice.

At some point during the series of classes I decided not to top off my magazine between courses of fire. I just reloaded during the course when the magazine was empty.

I think that was good practice too
 
Hi,

Indeed! Break/fix things and make mistakes during your training and practice. This article had a lot of good tips. Sure, most of us have BTDT for a lot of these conditions, but it was a good review, and a great reminder to practice. You know I love to practice. :D

I have a couple of pistols that would fail to slidelock after the last round. Yes, it was due to my thumb riding the slide release. I have changed my grip and thumb position a little but got plenty of practice "fixing" in the meantime. If I pulled the trigger and got a "click", just drop the mag, slam in a new one, rack the side, and carry on.

In class the other day I performed an "administrative" reload in the holster. When we started the next drill, the mag dropped after the first shot. Doh! I grabbed my spare mag, slammed it home, released the slide, and continued the drill. I had failed to properly seat the mag during my admin reload. It was noisy and I didn't hear the "click". Next time I'll make sure. Why perform an admin reload in the holster? It's good practice if you have to reload with only one hand.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Let's be careful out there.


Thank you for your indugence,

BassCliff
 
The Night Rider said:
When I was on my church's security team they paid for professional training for us.

Every training session included malfunction drills.

The trainer would have somebody else load our magazine and put dummy rounds in it.

We would through the course of Fire and the dummy rounds would simulate a malfunction and we'd have to clear the malfunction. Sometimes the guy would put two or three dummy rounds in a row in your gun.

It was good training except you knew a malfunction was coming but it was still good practice.

At some point during the series of classes I decided not to top off my magazine between courses of fire. I just reloaded during the course when the magazine was empty.

I think that was good practice too
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We would do sessions where someone else loaded your mag.
Didn’t know if you’d get full mag, dummy rounds, no dummy or partials. Learned to clear malfunctions and reload efficiently after that.
 
Being left handed, all of my handguns are revolvers. I notice the author didn't mention revolvers. There's a good reason for this; revolvers seldom ever jam. When it does happen, it's usually catastrophic. You aren't getting the gun back in the fight. There's only one fix - carry a second gun. Even if you carry an auto, it's still a good idea. Drawing a second weapon is much faster than fixing a jam. There are many scenarios in which you won't have time to tap and rack.
 
John D. said:
Being left handed, all of my handguns are revolvers.
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Just curious which revolver do you use? Can you share how you manipulate a revolver left handed better than say a modern semi auto with ambidextrous controls. I know S&W has a hammerless snubby that has the release lever where the hammer would be. That seems made for leftys
 
Good article and it actually covered a couple of "malfunctions" I'd had in the past. Both self inflicted by myself :(.The question I have is what does the term "Slingshot method" mean? It's used in the article a few times and I'm not sure if it's somethingI already do as a fix or not when needed, and it's just verbiage. Appreciate any answers.
 
Valkyrie14 said:
Good article and it actually covered a couple of "malfunctions" I'd had in the past. Both self inflicted by myself :(.The question I have is what does the term "Slingshot method" mean? It's used in the article a few times and I'm not sure if it's somethingI already do as a fix or not when needed, and it's just verbiage. Appreciate any answers.
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The slingshot method is grabbing the back of the side and puling it rearward then letting it go, like you were shooting a slingshot, vs putting your hand over the top and pulling it back

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Just a dimlight/nigh shoot recently for our agency.
It was for brand new agents, but I had to go through because I missed the annual training when I was out with a broken foot

We have always trained tap rack and roll for phase 1 malfunctions (failure to fire, no obvious jam).

The instructors were saying that under stress of the drill and especially when qualifying (two of the drills require malfunction clearing via dummy rounds) that most of the time people forget the tap part and it's rarely ever an issue becuase it's usually not becuase the mag isn't fully seated. They still train it and it's still good practice, but thought it was interesting

As Cliff said, I too have had a mag fall out after firing a round when loading using the administrative load.
Now I always give the mag a good tap on the bottom, and even try to tug it out a little to make sure it's fully seated
 
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