Nushif
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"The 2nd. Louie screamed like a little girl and peed his pants right in front of the whole company!
Course it didn't help that the 1911 wouldn't let go by itself, the officer couldn't rack the slide with one hand, and the buck private was too stupid to do it for him!"
If it wasn't the premise to every second joke in the book I would almost be mildly tempted to believe it. As is ... Pics or it didn't happen.
In any case, the notion of feeling with the pinkie is definitely sound in situations where you can't see in the chamber, makes sense to me, but frankly in terms of realism if I am out, and it is too dark to see the chamber of my gun ... Why am I, the average homewowner not simply you know ... Getting outta there?
There is a point of diminishing returns after a while. If for instance your lower half has been removed by trauma, both arms are off as well, it makes precious little sense to practice racking a slide with your gums, because you will have bled out.
Your mileage may vary here, of course, but I see very little point to practicing for feeling for a round in the dark, when I could simply insert a round in the chamber before it gets dark, and learn how to reload blindly, just as an example. Who has ever cleared a gun in the dark under duress? I would imagine loading the thing would be more of a priority. And in the odd case of a stuck casing, in a prepared household, as we are most likely to be in, given our circumstance why not simply go for another gun?
Again, I definitely understand the value of malfunction clearing, emergency responses and the like, but at a certain point I think two miles a day of retreat practice will serve one better than racking a slide with a pinkie toe.
Course it didn't help that the 1911 wouldn't let go by itself, the officer couldn't rack the slide with one hand, and the buck private was too stupid to do it for him!"
If it wasn't the premise to every second joke in the book I would almost be mildly tempted to believe it. As is ... Pics or it didn't happen.
In any case, the notion of feeling with the pinkie is definitely sound in situations where you can't see in the chamber, makes sense to me, but frankly in terms of realism if I am out, and it is too dark to see the chamber of my gun ... Why am I, the average homewowner not simply you know ... Getting outta there?
There is a point of diminishing returns after a while. If for instance your lower half has been removed by trauma, both arms are off as well, it makes precious little sense to practice racking a slide with your gums, because you will have bled out.
Your mileage may vary here, of course, but I see very little point to practicing for feeling for a round in the dark, when I could simply insert a round in the chamber before it gets dark, and learn how to reload blindly, just as an example. Who has ever cleared a gun in the dark under duress? I would imagine loading the thing would be more of a priority. And in the odd case of a stuck casing, in a prepared household, as we are most likely to be in, given our circumstance why not simply go for another gun?
Again, I definitely understand the value of malfunction clearing, emergency responses and the like, but at a certain point I think two miles a day of retreat practice will serve one better than racking a slide with a pinkie toe.
