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During an excersie stage in which one fired at an array, reloaded, fired, reload etc....I completely missed the mag well on one reload. My hand hit the mag well and the magazine went sailing off into space. I was able to retrieve another, load and resume firing before that mag hit the ground.
Once the range was clear the RO, with a dead pan face, told me that there are punters in the NFL that would be envious of the hang time I had.
Note to self..... LOOK AT THE MAG WELL, DUMMY!
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 06:08 PM
That would have made for some great video.
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Posted 16 October 2008 - 04:35 AM
Why do you think I shoot Open? 
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Posted 16 October 2008 - 07:30 AM
HSMITH, on Oct 15 2008, 07:16 PM, said:
LOL, I can throw a mag as far as anyone I have ever seen, so I know exactly where you are coming from.
Howard,
I don't know but we have an EA shooter that gets some real distance as he rips the mag out of the gun and gives it a throw, spectators move back and the RO looks for a place to hide.
I wonder what a reload will look like with his round gun next year.
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Posted 26 October 2008 - 07:31 PM
I've seen better.
We had a guy at a local IDPA match that had his cellphone stationed in front of his first magazine on his belt. You already see where this is going, don't you?
Yes. He attempted to feed his Glock a Motorola. Yes, he missed (I think he freaked as he saw what was about to slam into the mawell, yanked his hand back, and didn't hold on). Yes, it shattered against the wall.
That was funny.
We had a guy at a local IDPA match that had his cellphone stationed in front of his first magazine on his belt. You already see where this is going, don't you?
Yes. He attempted to feed his Glock a Motorola. Yes, he missed (I think he freaked as he saw what was about to slam into the mawell, yanked his hand back, and didn't hold on). Yes, it shattered against the wall.
That was funny.
This post has been edited by MemphisMechanic: 26 October 2008 - 07:33 PM
The truth is that there is no choice between the two. You line the sights up in the A-zone and let it fly at the absolute soonest moment that you see what your experience tells you will put the hole where you're aiming it using the amount of trigger control you need to keep the gun lined up in that spot. There is no concern about accuracy or speed - either one is an illusion from behind the gun. There's "where do I want to hit" and "is the gun lined up there or not"... followed up with "did the sights lift from where I wanted to hit". To assign an "either/or" to the equation is to deny the fact that the gun can be shot ridiculously fast while shooting all As - but it won't be done while you're determined that one must be sacrificed for the other - and it also has the amusing side effect of pressuring the shooter to ignore "the shooting" in the name of "the speed" - XRe
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Posted 27 October 2008 - 06:49 PM
I once launched one so high I caught it in mid-air for a reload on the next stage I shot . . . 
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Posted 11 November 2008 - 06:11 PM
I reached for a mag the other day and had the basepad pop off in my hand and watched the spring/follower shoot 30ft into the woods, never to be seen again. Of course I dropped the basepad and bent down to retrieve it only to have the mag with no basepad empty 21 rounds onto the ground.
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Posted 04 December 2008 - 03:39 PM
MemphisMechanic, on Oct 26 2008, 06:31 PM, said:
I've seen better.
We had a guy at a local IDPA match that had his cellphone stationed in front of his first magazine on his belt. You already see where this is going, don't you?
Yes. He attempted to feed his Glock a Motorola. Yes, he missed (I think he freaked as he saw what was about to slam into the mawell, yanked his hand back, and didn't hold on). Yes, it shattered against the wall.
That was funny.
We had a guy at a local IDPA match that had his cellphone stationed in front of his first magazine on his belt. You already see where this is going, don't you?
Yes. He attempted to feed his Glock a Motorola. Yes, he missed (I think he freaked as he saw what was about to slam into the mawell, yanked his hand back, and didn't hold on). Yes, it shattered against the wall.
That was funny.
Wow, I wish I could have been there that would have been hilarious!!!
A veteran shooter who has an open glock told me a story where he grabbed a mag backwards somehow and inserted it in the gun backwards. When it would not go in he slammed on the bottom of the mag to seat it. It took a pair of vice grips to get it out. No worries we all have screwed up and will again, its human nature.
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Posted 16 April 2009 - 09:41 AM
MemphisMechanic, on Oct 26 2008, 04:31 PM, said:
I've seen better.
We had a guy at a local IDPA match that had his cellphone stationed in front of his first magazine on his belt. You already see where this is going, don't you?
Yes. He attempted to feed his Glock a Motorola. Yes, he missed (I think he freaked as he saw what was about to slam into the mawell, yanked his hand back, and didn't hold on). Yes, it shattered against the wall.
That was funny.
We had a guy at a local IDPA match that had his cellphone stationed in front of his first magazine on his belt. You already see where this is going, don't you?
Yes. He attempted to feed his Glock a Motorola. Yes, he missed (I think he freaked as he saw what was about to slam into the mawell, yanked his hand back, and didn't hold on). Yes, it shattered against the wall.
That was funny.
Whoa! Some of our patrol guys clip their phones on to their mag pouches; hope the "cellphone mag exchange" doesn't happen in a real gunfight...We constantly warn guys not to hang shit on their mag pouches, etc. for this same reason
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Posted 16 April 2009 - 01:29 PM
L-10_shooter, on Dec 4 2008, 06:39 PM, said:
A veteran shooter who has an open glock told me a story where he grabbed a mag backwards somehow and inserted it in the gun backwards. When it would not go in he slammed on the bottom of the mag to seat it. It took a pair of vice grips to get it out. No worries we all have screwed up and will again, its human nature.
I have seen this first hand.. on the second series of "tap-and-rack" drills he realized why it wasn't seating.
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