Bravo_Sierra
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How many of you press-check your weapon every day?
How many of you press-check your weapon every day?
I would not say it is useless.... If you are shooting and swapping mags or clearing a malfunction.... the press check does come in handy to be sure you are locked and loaded.One of many Useless techniques taught!
There are better ways to ensure you firearm is loaded.
And, no I don't manually insert a round in the chamber.
Mine are always loaded.
If it is in a holster..... it is loaded.
I press check only after the initial load after I clean my gun.
One more thing: Do you owna Sig pistol? Because if you don't, you have a slide STOP, not a slide release. This is a common misconception.I've only done a press-check when, while loading, the slide drops before I've hit the slide release. (To make certain it actually loaded a round. After the first few times I stopped - - I've become confident that if inserting the magazine firmly causes the slide to go forward then the slide has loaded the top round.)
If my pistol is being stored, it's unloaded. If it's in the holster or readily to hand, then I've loaded it before stepping out the door and I know it won't mysteriously unload itself.
Yep!!!!Still think its useless?
How many of you press-check your weapon every day?
No need, I have an LCI - Loaded Chamber Indicator. Always loaded except when cleaning.
QFT.Well, I'm a Glock guy so I don't have that.LCI - Loaded Chamber Indicator.
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Ah. I guess that's what makes it an individual preference. My Ruger P345's is large enough not to miss seeing or feeling and right in the line of sight.It's just me and the wife andshe won't even touch it, let alone have a clue how to clear it and wouldn't even if she knew how. Sounless some unseen and unheard evilmagical forcedecides to empty it or fuse it shut beside me while I'm sleeping, it's just not gonna happen.BobCav wrote:No need, I have an LCI - Loaded Chamber Indicator. Always loaded except when cleaning.
Well, I'm a Glock guy so I don't have that. Guess I'd rather take half a second every morning to manually check instead of racking the slide if I get in a gunfight.
O well.
Bravo_Sierra wrote:How many of you press-check your weapon every day?
If not you can ALWAYS follow the example of TRAINED PROFESSIONALS , and clear it , like Police Chiefs and DEA agents who are the ONLY ONES:what:trained enough to hand a gun.
I crack myself up. ROTFLMAO:celebrate. Just couldn't help myself.
TJ
UTOC-45-44 wrote:Bravo_Sierra wrote:How many of you press-check your weapon every day?
If not you can ALWAYS follow the example of TRAINED PROFESSIONALS , and clear it , like Police Chiefs and DEA agents who are the ONLY ONES:what:trained enough to hand a gun.
I crack myself up. ROTFLMAO:celebrate. Just couldn't help myself.
TJ
Cant' forget deputies that accidentally fire 7 rounds (yes, I said SEVEN) one of which hit his wife in the stomach, while conducting a "press-check":
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15867855&BRD=2068&PAG=461&dept_id=387468&rfi=6
Cant' forget deputies that accidentally fire 7 rounds (yes, I said SEVEN) one of which hit his wife in the stomach, while conducting a "press-check":
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15867855&BRD=2068&PAG=461&dept_id=387468&rfi=6
Cant' forget deputies that accidentally fire 7 rounds (yes, I said SEVEN) one of which hit his wife in the stomach, while conducting a "press-check":
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15867855&BRD=2068&PAG=461&dept_id=387468&rfi=6
Glock 18: Selective-fire variant of the Glock 17, developed at the request of the Austrian counter-terrorist unit EKO Cobra. The Glock 18 is not available to the civilian market. This machine pistol-class firearm has a lever-type fire-control selector switch, installed on the left side of the slide, in the rear, serrated portion (selector lever in the in the bottom position – continuous fire, top setting – single fire). The firearm is typically used with an extended 33-round capacity magazine. Early Glock 18’s were ported to reduce muzzle rise during automatic fire. Another compensated variant was also produced, known as the Glock 18C. It has a keyhole opening cut into the forward portion of the slide, not unlike the opening on the Glock long-slide models, although the G18 has a standard-length slide. The keyhole opening provides a venting area to allow the four, progressively-larger (from back to front) compensator cuts machined into the barrel to accomplish their job, which is to afford more control over the rapid-firing machine pistol. The compensator cuts, of varying widths start about halfway back on the top. The rear two cuts are narrow, while the front two cuts are wider. The slide is also hollowed, or dished-out in a rectangular pattern between the rear of the ejection port and the rear sight. The pistol’s rate of fire in fully automatic mode is approx. 1100-1200 rounds/min. Most of the other characteristics are similar to the Glock 17.What is: The handgun, which is similar to a .380-caliber, was being carried by Bowyer. :what:
Was it a Glock 18? Inquiring minds want to know.