YouTube - Pistol Malfunction Clearance
Everyone should have a bunch of dummy round to parctice this stuff on the range.
Exactly!!! Have a buddy load your mags. for you and slip in a couple of snap-caps in different places (sometimes including 2 in a row) and then practice that "tap, rack, & press" drill!!!
In what instance do you teach this? While this action would be just fine in a range/target practice setting, it isn't realistic for real life, or any sort of dynamic fighting class. If a couple of TRB's or a TRB, and mag change don't work while moving, it's time, or past time, to transition to a BUG and/or get the hell outta dodge.Failure to eject or failure to extract?
The former could result in a jam (which you can't fix without tools). The latter is a malfunction that can be addressed like a "double feed" and in fact many apparent double feeds are actually failures to extract.
Here's is how I was taught to do and how I teach others:
1. Lock slide to rear (if you can).
2. Strip magazine; dispose of it (at least temporarily) if you have another, because it is probably the cause of a double feed (if you had one, but not so much a failure to extract).
3. Rack the slide vigrously 2-4 times, letting it fall forward without slowing it down (you need to make sure the extractor gets around the rim of the case in the chamber). JMHO
4. Reload (preferably with a fresh magazine) and continue your activities.
In what instance do you teach this? While this action would be just fine in a range/target practice setting, it isn't realistic for real life, or any sort of dynamic fighting class. If a couple of TRB's or a TRB, and mag change don't work while moving, it's time, or past time, to transition to a BUG and/or get the hell outta dodge.
Locking the slide back is a fine motor skill that probably will not be available, as well as the time to rack several times. Correct, moving is first, TRB while moving, if that has failed, mag change, charge, continue. Personally, I do carry a bug, so if TRB fails, transition. YMMV... that's a standard fix for a double feed.
Getting "the hell outta Dodge" should be your first move. Escape ASAP - you don't want to shoot the bastard, no matter how deserving he may be of it.
Strip the old mag out, let it fall where it will (my lil' addition due to the probability of bent feed lips), reload with fresh.
Given that many people don't carry a backup, and an exit would have been taken already, if possible, what's your solution?
No backup and no exit, remember.
Failure to eject or failure to extract?
The former could result in a jam (which you can't fix without tools). The latter is a malfunction that can be addressed like a "double feed" and in fact many apparent double feeds are actually failures to extract.
Here's is how I was taught to do and how I teach others:
1. Lock slide to rear (if you can).
2. Strip magazine; dispose of it (at least temporarily) if you have another, because it is probably the cause of a double feed (if you had one, but not so much a failure to extract).
3. Rack the slide vigorously 2-4 times, letting it fall forward without slowing it down (you need to make sure the extractor gets around the rim of the case in the chamber).
4. Reload (preferably with a fresh magazine) and continue your activities.
That's something that some instructors sometimes fail to explain.
I always try to explain this, and it is for some reason I haven't figured out yet, difficult for new shooters to either a. comprehend, b. perform, or c. allow themselves to do. (BTW, almost all my students are new shooters, almost all of them ride the slide). It's like they've formed a bad habit without ever shooting a gun before... like they are going to hurt the gun or something.
It's probably because racking multiple times is so different from doing it once.
In what instance do you teach this? While this action would be just fine in a range/target practice setting, it isn't realistic for real life, or any sort of dynamic fighting class. If a couple of TRB's or a TRB, and mag change don't work while moving, it's time, or past time, to transition to a BUG and/or get the hell outta dodge.
That's something that some instructors sometimes fail to explain. I've been practicing with snap caps a lot lately, and that was the thing I kept missing. The slide wasn't going back forward with enough force to engage the extractor and get the round out.