I think this has been an excellent subject. William Hickock would shoot his gun every morning to assure that his loads where fresh and his gun would fire when needed. There are many little things people do to create an edge. Speed and accuracy are your friends. Tactics will help you in any situation but being flexible may save your life. A person needs to make changes upon the situation that they are facing. Do what you have to, to survive.
We have talked about speed loading and tactical loading and the fact of having any rounds left in the magazine but, what happens if you have a malfunction? Whether you are reloading with or without a round in your chamber the rules of Murphy could always be applied. Be efficient!
You make this discussion even harder for some peopleā¦
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Identity malfunction
Depending on what just has happened proceed with proper procedure.
I try to keep it simple and with all my handguns the process is the same.
If thereās no double feed, ātap-rackā works great. If I see double feed, locking slide and stripping mag always works.
That would be another good topic. Iāve never had but one malfunction and that was because I didnāt clean the pistol for a while and the feed ramp got really gunked up. But, I was really slow at getting it straightened out. The first thing I did was rack the slide which then put an extra bullet in a chamber made for one.
One of my Instructors said long time ago: If you donāt experience malfunction, that means you are not training hard enough.
And itās true and applies to malfunctions and mistakes.
I never got malfunctions, until I stared pushing myself with training. Then I experienced every single one that was caused by me (userās error).
Malls can be some of the most dangerous places. For a while my wife worked in one of the high end department stores in what is one of the nicest malls in the state, in a very expensive area of town. Her store was the largest, and highest revenue āflagshipā store in the company. The amount of crime, including violent crime, was staggering. Theft was out of control. A co-worker was sexually assaulted in the restroom. A domestic violence incident escalated to a gun being drawn and people scattering. Itās a real problem, and bad people have cars and like to go where the the people with money live and hang out. I mean, on any given day the number of Ferraris, Bentleys and Porsches in the valet parking area would make you think the mall lot was an exotic car dealer, but that kind of fancy money draws the criminals.
The mall nearest us has one high end store, a couple shoe stores and a Hobby Lobby. Basically an empty building. Around the early 2000ās groups of āroving youthā I will call them began populating the mall and many patrons were caught up in the resulting violent clashes . People just stopped going. The multiplex theater adjacent to the mall closed completely as a result of same.
We shop our local and rural stores as well as online. I actually dread having to shop urban areas but there are a few products in which we have no choice. When we do they are low traffic and outskirt stores.
Thank you for sharing this, I am right handed but left eye dominant. Thanks to my parents, I was born left handed but they forced me to be right handed. I came to realize this around 3rd grade in little league where I could not hit a ball for crap, till I switched to batting left handed and all of a sudden I was hitting every ball that was thrown at me. When I learned to skate I thought I was goofy foot, because I skated left footed but it was just my bodies natural position for being left dominant. When I began shooting pistols I would use my left eye for the iron sights. Shooting rifles was a little more difficult because I was right handed so I had to learn to hold my rifle at an angle so the iron sights or scope were viewable by my left eye.
You donāt need to do any weird tests to get the answer on which eye you are dominant, your optometrist can tell you. The first time my current optometrist did an exam for me, he was like weird, you are right handed but left eye dominant, did you know that? And I explained yep, I was born left handed but my parents forced me to do everything with my right hand. My right hand sucks by the way, I throw baseballs like crap, my hand writing looks like chicken scratches and I am uncoordinated like crap. Moral of the story is if your baby is left handed, let nature take itās course, donāt be a-holes like my parents were because they thought it would be an inconvenience at the dinner table for me to bump elbows.
