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Originally Posted by mkillebrew
If you're being shot at you may not have use of your offhand anymore, or no hard point to snag the slide on to cycle it, or it just costs you valuable time to slingshot the slide.
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- There are drills for that.
- It costs more time to re-cock the pistol and then chamber a new round when the first one fails to fire again. Skip the middle step and just chamber a new round.
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Originally Posted by mkillebrew
I doubt I'll ever have to draw mine in my life, but it is a possibility and an opinion I'll hold firmly to regarding striker-fired guns.
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I am going to echo Slims: if I get a click and no bang, it would be foolish of me to cock the hammer and try it again.
- If the round didn't fire the first time, there is likely something wrong with it. Maybe it got wet. Who knows. But if the primer is jacked, then the powder could be, too. I am not going to risk a game-ending squib load when I could just as easily move on to the next round in the magazine.
- If the round doesn't go bang, it has lost my trust. The general rule of thumb is if you can see/shoot at a bad guy, he can see and shoot at you. I don't want to expose myself with a "maybe" round. The risk is not worth the gain.
I challenge you to show me a single serious shooting school that teaches the "recock the hammer" method over "tap, rack, bang".