Rob Pincus: Here is another important video from the Personal Defense Network.
When we encounter a slide lock situation, in the middle of the dynamic critical incident, we are going to want to get the gun back in operation as quickly as we can. This is our worst case scenario. Okay this isn't just the deciding a reload, this isn't reloading for the next shooting drill. This is where in the middle of someone trying hurt us or someone we care about and now we want to be able to respond with lethal force but our gun has run out. We have a spare magazine, okay.
Situation we are going to be in is that we have recognized a threat, we have drawn our firearm, we have presented, taken a shot, taken multiple shots. Whatever situation has gotten us to that, now the gun is locked back. We have reached slide lock in the middle of a critical incidence. We are going to take our left hand off the gun immediately, here what we need to do to get our right thumb in line with the magazine release, drop that magazine as the gun comes back to the ready position. When you reach back down, as we are moving off line and continuing that movement to our spare magazine and get it up to the magazine well.
Now I know a lot of you traditionally will carry your extra magazines with the bullets facing forward, that's fine. You want to be consistent. If that's the way you are trained for fifteen, five, ten weeks, years, months whatever it is, stay that way. Your elbow is going to be a little further out from your body as the magazine comes out, you are going to flip it up into the gun, okay.
What I do personally is keep that magazine with the bullets pointed backwards. As the magazine comes up your elbow is closer to the body, the magazine rotates into the gun, and we reach up and over grab the back of the slide and go into the ready position to assess whether or not we still need to shoot, okay.
In that position we are very strong, we have a lot of co-ordination, we also have retention. In case we are in a crowd or a crowded situation, or someone is trying to come after the gun while we are reloading. Maybe it's the threat getting closer or maybe it's somebody else who is trying to help the threat. He does understand what's going on. We want to keep that gun in close and not have it floating around out here. We certainly don't want to be putting it up here and pointing it in bunch of different directions that once we get it loaded now our presentation is inconsistent. Once the gun is loaded we want it to be consistent with the presentation we have from inclose.
So again we have shot, we have slide lock, hand comes off the gun, we change our position, we come up. If we need to shoot right away as we grab the slide, we can actually pull the gun out, extend to make that shot one handed if we need to shoot that fast, okay.
Its nothing wrong with that if we are in the middle of a dynamic critical incident. Questions about that? Outstanding.
Everybody back on line, Mike (ph) this weapon is loaded. Remember when you are out of round, we want to still present a plausible threat. Want you to rack the slide, get the gun back into battery and you are presenting a plausible threat. You have got to drop the empty magazine, that's part of the drill. The empty magazine should be dropped every time you reach slide lock. Up! up!
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