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It's hard to imagine why, unless there was a range officer standing over his right shoulder saying, "If you are finished, unload and show clear." In competition, we learn to respond to the RO's direction, not unload on our own initiative.
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I think it's just like how police officers used to put the brass in their pockets on the range then were found dead, out of rounds, with brass in their pockets. I'm not arguing that one shouldn't compete, just giving the opposite view. I think it's like you said earlier, under stress we default to the lowest level of training. He defaulted to clearing the weapon after firing a string of rounds.
Now, conversely, he was the only one that did it of the 2 squads that were there so it's certainly not something that is direct causation because everyone else had similar training. I guess the human detention of a shooting scenario is just very complex....