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That is why removing the magazine should be step 1. Start by removing the mag to remove the ammunition in the magazine, THEN manipulate the slide to remove/detect ammunition in the chamber.
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Deleted original post. Always drop the mag 1st.
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2. People who rack the slide and see an empty mag might unwittinly assume that the gun is empty (unchambered). An empty mag might lead to this assumption and they would more likely to forget step 2 (rack the slide to check). ESPECIALLY NEWBIES. 3. If you lock back the slide first. You can easily see the chamber and magazine at the same time. If there is a chambered round, and you forgot, by racking the slide back first, it comes flying out as a reminder. 4. Probably that's how most of the glock ND's happen. By dropping the mag, and then pressing the trigger to disassemble. If they had locked back the slide first and the round came flying out, they would then remember to drop the mag.
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I was curious to see if maybe I was off base, so I just finished going through 20 some-odd owners manuals for firearms with detachable magazines. Every single one of them recommended removing the magazine first and only checking the chamber after the magazine had been removed. Quote:
If the mag is out, then no matter how the procedure is scewed up from there on out, at least the chamber won't actually be reloaded. One might not properly check the chamber (which would be a fail regardless of what order the process is performed) but at least once a proper chamber check is performed, there's no way to chamber another round once the mag is out of the gun. Quote:
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Anyway, the bottom line is this: In every applicable owner's manual I could find, the proper procedure is as follows: 1. If there is a safety and/or decocker control then put the gun on safe and/or decock it using the control. 2. Remove the magazine. 3. Operate the action and verify that the chamber is empty. If you have (or know of) a manual that specifies a different procedure, I'd be interested to see it.
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where did I learn that?
from my uncle bob chow. I shot bullseye for many years. And at the end of every string, it was.... SLIDES BACK, MAGAZINES OUT. I never heard, "Magazines out, slides back. I hand you a gun. Is it loaded? I drop the magazine first. Hand it to you with the slide closed. Is it loaded? I lock back the slide and hand it to you. Is it loaded. Yes or no, you can see right away. One method takes one action. the other two actions. what you do afterwards is up to the shooters training. I know of a friend that thought he should release the striker to store his glock. so one day at the sheriff's ccw qualifications he was caught doing this and told by the RO to stop doing that. after one shooting string he did that and had a ND. why? because he dropped the mag, thought he was safe and pulled the trigger again to relieve the trigger. Disqualified immediately. Also, I find it more natural, maybe because that's how I've done it for so many years. I can lock back the slide, and drop the mag into my other hand and check the chamber. If I do the opposite, drop the mag first, what the heck do I do with the mag when I'm trying to rack the slide back. It's much more awkward. Same action for type 3 malfunction. Lock the slide back, drop the mag.
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Here's the book, you can check for yourself. http://rulebooks.nra.org/documents/p...istol-book.pdf Quote:
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The reason that the magazine is dropped before the chamber is checked is to eliminate the chance of reloading the chamber after it has been verified empty.
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Of course, I am thinking "outside the GLock" here. Many designs can only have the safety applied when the gun is cocked. Many lock the action shut when the safety is on. SO, for the purpose of unloading, what's the point of putting the safety on, to drop the mag, then taking it off, to open the action?? For me, I don't drop the mag first. I rack the action open, and expect the empty mag to lock it open. IF IT DOES NOT, THEN I know right away something isn't right, and its most likely a live round. I then drop the mag and operate the action, expecting to see the live round ejected. If THAT does not happen, I lock the action open manually and take a careful look (and a feel) in the chamber, before moving on to figure out why things didn't work as expected.
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Let me try to summarize that step slightly differently. 1. If applicable then put the gun on safe and/or decock it. 2. Remove the magazine. 3. Operate the action and verify that the chamber is empty. Quote:
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John, I don't know how many bullseys matches you have personally attended, but I shot competitive bullseye for over ten years and have been to hundresd of matches. Although every range officer has their own way, the commands have been burned into my memory.
I shot in the San Francisco bay area most of the time, and they all used "slides back, magazines out, cylinders open. If you had an alibi, you had to show the malfunction, then rack the slide back and drop the magazine and make the line safe. http://www.njpistol.com/Summary.pdf Here is a page from the New Jersey Pistol association's guide book: “Slides back, magazines out, guns on the bench, safety flags in chambers, make the line safe” Quote:
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Anyway, even if it were standard practice for NRA bullseye, and even if Bob Chow were JMB reincarnated, it still wouldn't change what every applicable owner's manual I could find recommends in terms of the unloading procedure. If you can find one that recommends a different procedure I'd be interested to see it.
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You asked me where I learned my methodology, and I told you. that's all.
Not saying that is the correct way or only way. We are old enough to realize there are more than one way to skin a cat. As long as one knows how to handle a weapon safely. Quote:
In order to remove a cartridge that is loaded in the chamber, you have to either remove the loaded magazine, and load an empty one to rack the slide back to eject the loaded round. Or you can drop the mag just enough (1/4 inch) so the next round won't be picked up when you rack the slide to eject the chambered round, and then remove the magazine.
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Such an informative and respectful discourse on this topic. But, instead of being enlightened, I remain hesitant regarding the most appropriate procedure.
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It seems to make more sense to me to drop the mag first, this way when you rack the slide it will lock open after ejecting the round. Unless your gun doesn't lock open after the last round, in which case it go either way. I keep a 10" piece of bright orange fiberglass dowel in my bag, I run this down the barrel after locking back the slide to make sure the barrel is clear. I also use this to check for a barrel obstruction on any suspected squib or short charge.
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However, it is interesting to note that the Seecamp manual indicates that the magazine should be partially removed as the first step. http://www.seecamp.com/SeecampManualNew.pdf UNLOADING: (Figures 5 and 6) Quote:
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If we all followed the instruction manuals to the T, many would not be carrying a loaded chamber. Folks, these are written by the company's lawyers.
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He did not state that he dropped the mag and locked the slide back to check. If he had locked back the slide first, and then dropped the mag, he would have more time to actually visually and physically check the chamber, and he would have had to perform two more actions of reinserting a magazine and dropping the slide for a ND to happen. Also, why did he pull the trigger after removing the mag. Was he taking down his firearm, relieving the stress on the striker or hammer (as stated as a poor practice in my earlier posts) or getting ready to dry fire, or pressing the trigger to confirm an unloaded firearm?
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Sure, we should get the manuals, but how many of us actually do??? Out of all the pistols I've had that didn't have manuals, there was only one that I bought a reproduction manual for, and that was a C96 Mauser. And, I didn't buy it because I needed the instructions in it, I already had operating and field stripping instructions in a couple of books. I bought to go with the gun, as I had the holster, and cleaning rods too, and was looking to recreate the accessory set the gun originally came with. As far as dropping the mag and racking the slide goes, I think I may be using the term a little differently than others. When checking the gun, (with the mag out) I "rack" the slide by pulling it all the way back, and holding it there, while I look to see if the action is clear. I do not just pull the slide back, and let it go, assuming that if there is a round chambered, it will be ejected. Then I lock the slide open using the lever/button, IF the design of the gun allows for it. Some do not. You cannot lock the toggle of a Luger open, WITHOUT having an empty magazine in the gun. I have a Mauser HSc that also will not lock open without an empty mag in the gun. Mine will also shut if you remove the magazine. (Any HSc owners out there? Is this the correct operation, or is my gun not working 100% correctly?? I don't know. It is fully functional, I just don't know if it's supposed to work like that, different from other guns I own. I suppose I might get a manual and see what it says, but I'm too lazy..)
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You believe that leaving the mag in the gun is safer during the chamber check even though it opens up the possibility of verifying that the chamber is empty and then accidentally reloading it after the check. It appears that every manufacturer of applicable firearms we can find so far disagrees with you. But the fact that one person managed to botch a particular loading procedure on a single occasion isn't proof that it's a bad procedure any more than the fact that a person manages to make a bad procedure work proves that it's a good procedure. If we are going to take this approach, then if anyone could find an example where a person botched your procedure you would have to admit it is a bad procedure. And here's just such an example: https://www.fieldandstream.com/answe...stake-forum-an I did not drop the magazine before beginning my clearing procedure. This shouldn’t have been a problem, seeing as the next step is to pull back the charging handle and physically and visually inspect the chamber. I charged the gun but did not hold the bolt to the rear for very long to check. I canted the rifle so I could see it but did not actually process what I saw. I then released the charging handle and almost immediately pressed the trigger to drop the hammer, which I do before separating the gun.In fact, in the list of ND stories in that link, there was actually another example: I racked the slide before dropping the magazine, ejecting the round, but unknowingly chambering another. After dropping the magazine, I released the safety, then pulled the trigger to drop the hammer. Quote:
Here's a great resource for about 300 owner's manuals that may not still be available from the manufacturer for one reason or another. http://www.biggerhammer.net/manuals/ Here is a manual for the Mauser HSC. It is, unfortunately, in German, but there are online translation tools that should help you make sense of it. http://www.forgottenweapons.com/wp-c...HSc-Manual.pdf Here is the unloading procedure from the manual. Apologies for the translation, it's not my specialty. If the shooting is finished and there are still cartridges in the barrel or
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I stated that with one motion, by racking the slide you can see instantly what is happening, but I also stated that the magazine should be removed. You are misinterpreting my statements in an effort to try and prove your point. Please try and keep the topic to the OP's original statement. He took the magazine out and assumed that the gun was safe by cycling the action and no round was ejected. That backs up my claim that removing the magazine first gives people a false sense of security.
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Second, if you've been involved in a discussion that was NOT about whether to remove the magazine FIRST or operate the slide FIRST during the unloading process, then maybe you posted this in the wrong thread. Quote:
Unless you're trying to say that the magazine should be dropped simultaneous to operating the slide, then you are saying that the magazine should be left in while the slide is operated to eject the round/check the chamber.
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While I think we’re going a bit overboard here, I will agree with John that the OP being negligent doesn’t somehow prove that removing the magazine first sets people up for a ND or gives them a false sense of security. At some point the magazine has to be removed and the chamber checked. If someone forgets one of those steps the ground is laid for a ND.
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While pointing the gun in a safe direction with your finger off the trigger, Drop the Magazine first, then rack the slide. It is how I was taught and as an NRA certified basic pistol instructor it is what I am required to teach students in an official NRA basic pistol course.
As far as bullseye competition goes, they do say "slides back magazines out make the line safe." At the end of a string the slide on a 1911 .45 and most competition .22lr pistols will already be back in the locked position and the magazine will be empty. Are Bullseye competitors the safest folks for gun handling? I would say it varies, familiarity breeds contempt, and there are many holes in the baffle in front of the 25 yard position at my NRA Bullseye participating club as many competitors like to put their finger on the trigger before the gun is brought down on target. Teaching new shooters with a loaded magazine and chamber the proper procedure for safety is to drop the magazine first, this avoids any possibility that they might eject a round and then chamber another, leaving the gun loaded after they drop the magazine. Last edited by Master Blaster; November 20, 2017 at 11:01 AM. |
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Whether you lock the slide back first and then remove the magazine, or remove the magazine first and then lock back the slide, at that point, you are exactly the same.
It's a silly debate. I don't care how you do it, but it seem you care greatly how I do it. But if we are to stay on topic according to the OP's thread, I believe he is asking about why his extrator failed to eject the round. That was initial question. So the discussion was not about whether to drop the magazine first or lock the slide back first. The main point to the OP's original question was that he relied on the extractor to clear the chamber instead of examining it visually and PHYSICALLY.
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