I am a firearms instructor in Florida and most of my students are Security Officers trying to become armed security officers. A retired police officer (and a firearms instructor as a civilian with his PD), showed me a new technique for conducting an emergency reload.
They train their new officers to “power strip” the magazine instead of letting it just fall to the ground. This involves getting the finger tips on the edge of the magazine and pulling it out and letting it fall to the ground. Then reaching for a fresh magazine.
This change in technique was the result of a video from a police officer’s body camera. During a shooting the officer tried to conduct an emergency reload but his magazine didn’t drop and he tried reload a fresh magazine, of course he couldn’t reload. The video was quick and hard to see. The officer told me that the magazine partially ejected. So now they’re training their officers to “power strip. “
My question is this a new technique now? As a result frame one video. To me it didn’t look like the magazine ejected partially.
This could be terminology, depends on definition of “emergency reload”.
If it means slide locked back due to current magazine being empty, then everything @Jerzees posted is possible.
However, if emergency reload refers to an issue where tap, rack, and fire didn’t resolve issue, then I could picture a round partially striped off the magazine jamming it up.
Wow, what a response. My first time here. You all had great points. A lot to think about. I believe I’ll be continuing my training using the drop method and treating the power strip as a possible malfunction. Drop method will be default. Thank you all again for the input.
I’ve no idea. Guess you’re talking about pistols. Not that I’d ever need to, but curious about techniques for faster reloads but for rifles with magazines?
Pro’s and Con’s of making a home-made low cost loop for ease of pull, or taping a second for ease of reloading?
