Daily Defense Season 2 - EP 15: Inserting & Removing a Pistol Magazine
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- In recent videos, Jeff has covered the proper way to grip a pistol, line up its sights with the target, and squeeze the trigger. Another element of "pistol manipulation" is the magazine change. After reviewing the Four Firearm Safety Rules, do a good read through your gun's owner's manual, with special attention to its features and controls. Next, stake out a "workspace" where you can practice with the gun pointed in a safe direction. With the pistol unloaded and the slide closed, hold it close to your body in your strong hand, and rotate it so the top of the slide points outward. Pick up a loaded magazine in a "tip-to-tip" orientation - the tip of your index finger resting on the tip of the first bullet. Seat the magazine in the pistol, then cycle the slide. Next, practice changing magazines with the slide locked open, which happens after you've fired the last round in a mag. Once you've inserted the fresh magazine, release slide with either the "slingshot" method OR by hitting the slide release lever. Jeff demonstrates these operations the way right-handed shooters do them. LEFT-handed folks may want to get a gun with ambidextrous controls. Many left-handed people are ambidextrous themselves (the result of living in a right-handed world!), so they can also adapt to operating a right-handed gun.
Great video. Very informative for the beginner and the more experienced firearms users out here. It's always a plus to review the cardinal rules of gun safety. Thank you.
Outstanding! Semper Fi
WOW!!! A former Navy SEAL showing how to load a magazine into a weapon! I'm so impressed and edumacated.
As a lefty, I prefer to use RH mag releases on my handguns. It's just something I've gotten used to doing and in the even that I have to pick up someone else's firearm, just seems like the correct thing to use. on my long guns I prefer the ambi mag release only because I can use the same muscle memory from the handguns to drop the mag. As for accidental mag drops on reloading, I've found that loading 1 less than the maximum number of rounds stop this from happening.
I don't blame you, good call. More and more handgun are coming with ambi controls, but it is still good to consider a battlefield pick up.
Hey Jeff
Great video!
You in NJ this week?
I have small thumbs relative to my hand. I use my left (loading hand) thumb for the slide release. Not quite as fast as if I could reach, but I can do it faster than I can slingshot.
The miculeks use the sling shot technique so I guess it depends on what you practice the most.
I know plenty of people who use the weak hand thumb. Ken Hackathorn showed me these decades ago, it is a viable option for many.
Some pistols (notably M&P Shields) don't release the slide with the lever. Smith & Wesson describe the control as a "slide stop" and not a "slide release" in the manual. It also says to pull the slide back and release to load instead of using the lever.
First
Waste of time video on basics that everyone should know.
But not everyone does
That was needlessly mean and a dumb thing to say… we all started out and had to learn .. even you Einstein…!