Boba Fett
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Oh yeah...one more thing I forgot to add.
Ayoob is indeed a fan of the Israeli Method...FOR LOADING A FIREARM IN PREPARATION TO BE USED, NOT FOR A MISGUIDED MOVIE WESTERN SHOWDOWN.
Once again, I quote Ayoob himself as I am unable to channel him like Evela can:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob031207.html
Did you catch that? Ayoob himself has said that carrying unchambered IS TOO SLOW FOR SELF-DEFENSE.
Moving on to where Ayoob actually discusses something about an Israeli Method...
Now, I'm sure Evela will be along to try to claim victory, but again, Ayoob is not saying that you should practice an "Israeli Draw," he is saying that to put a round in the chamber, the Israeli Method is better than the American Method.
Ayoob is indeed a fan of the Israeli Method...FOR LOADING A FIREARM IN PREPARATION TO BE USED, NOT FOR A MISGUIDED MOVIE WESTERN SHOWDOWN.
Once again, I quote Ayoob himself as I am unable to channel him like Evela can:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob031207.html
If your pistol is a single action semiautomatic, and it is drop-safe, the best way to carry it is cocked and locked. That is, the hammer is cocked back and the thumb safety is engaged, with a round in the chamber. This is known also as “Condition One.” The “cocked” part scares police chiefs and a lot of new shooters, but the “locked” part comes into its own if an unauthorized person gets his hands on your gun. Unless he is intimately familiar with that pistol, it will take him a while to figure out where the safety is and how it works before he can make it go off.
You don’t want to carry a round in the chamber of any semi-automatic pistol that doesn’t have a firing pin lock. It’s not drop-safe. This includes the majority of .22 caliber semiautomatic pistols out there. Carry them with a full magazine and empty chamber, and activate the slide to chamber a round when it comes time to shoot. If that sounds too slow for self-defense, I agree with you. Do what I did and what every modern police department does for its troops, and equip yourself with a pistol that is drop-safe and therefore safe to carry with a cartridge in the firing chamber.
Did you catch that? Ayoob himself has said that carrying unchambered IS TOO SLOW FOR SELF-DEFENSE.
Moving on to where Ayoob actually discusses something about an Israeli Method...
When checking the chamber of a semi-automatic pistol, never do the trendy “pinch check” in which the thumb of the support hand hooks into the trigger guard and the index finger reaches under the muzzle to press back the slide. Putting your finger in such close proximity to the muzzle of a possibly-loaded gun is nothing short of dangerously stupid. One master shooter blew his index finger off at a pistol match doing exactly that with a light-triggered 1911 .45 automatic.
It came into fashion subsequently to grasp the front of the slide to press it back. This too is dangerous. Famed firearms instructor John Farnam recently reported the case of an unfortunate man who managed to blow not one but two fingers off while doing that. The gun industry aids and abets this practice by putting grasping grooves on the front as well as the rear of the slide on many models.
Take John Farnam’s advice, and mine. Always retract the slide of a semiautomatic pistol by using the grasping grooves located at the rear of the slide.
When operating an auto pistol’s slide, consider using the Israeli method instead of the American method. The American method, or “overhand,” has the palm of the support hand down on top of the slide with the thumb toward you. It feels good and strong, but unless done very carefully, it tends to pull the gun’s muzzle toward the weak hand side. Soon the pistol is pointing at your own forearm, or perhaps at the person next to you.
The Israeli method has also been called “the slingshot technique” because it mimics the movements you would use to operate a slingshot. The gun arm stays locked, pointing the handgun at the target or backstop, while the free hand grasps the slide with the thumb forward. Pushing forward with the gun hand while pulling back with the support hand—digging in your rear heel on the strong hand side and driving your body weight forward, as if delivering a hard punch—makes this technique actually stronger than the American style. My little girls were able to work full size Colt .45 automatics with this technique when they were eight-years-old. Perhaps more important, the body mechanics of the Israeli technique keep the muzzle downrange in a safe direction during the entire operation.
Now, I'm sure Evela will be along to try to claim victory, but again, Ayoob is not saying that you should practice an "Israeli Draw," he is saying that to put a round in the chamber, the Israeli Method is better than the American Method.