Practicing clearing a malfunction.

[fm2]

Great idea!

[srothstein]

I have to agree with LT on the need to practice clearing a weapon, and on where to concentrate your attention. When i train the cadets, that is exactly how we do it. We spend maybe 2 hours out of a three day block of instruction practicing clearing jams, and then just run a hot range the rest of the time. Most of them never need to clear the jam except for the one section where we force it.

I like snap caps for this type of practice, but GT distributors has these safety trainers. They are a lot cheaper than snap caps (brand name).

[lawrnk]

The failure to fire, so I'm told, is the most common type of malfunction in modern autoloaders. Other malfs, failure to extract, double feed, etc.. are good to practice, but you have to set them up. That takes the surprise/realism out of the practice, and that's a big factor.

We practice these using snap caps. Have a partner "Jam" your weapon anyway he/she chooses, place under a towel on a table. At the buzzer, the shooter uncovers the weapon, determines what type of "stoppage" has occurred and clears the weapon.

Puts the "surprise" right back into it.

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That is actually a fantastic idea

[lawrnk]

I have to agree with LT on the need to practice clearing a weapon, and on where to concentrate your attention. When i train the cadets, that is exactly how we do it. We spend maybe 2 hours out of a three day block of instruction practicing clearing jams, and then just run a hot range the rest of the time. Most of them never need to clear the jam except for the one section where we force it.

I like snap caps for this type of practice, but GT distributors has these safety trainers. They are a lot cheaper than snap caps (brand name).

Those are a steal compared to snap caps. I wonder if anyone has a mix and match? I don't need 50 of 1 cal, but would love 5 or 10 of multi cals

[fm2]

I have tried the orange plastic safety trainers. When the rim breaks off, they can be a pain. I am telling ya, the S.T. Action Pros are the way to go. IIRC, you can mix n match.

[jbirds1210]

Even Glocks malfunction! I know the Glock fans don't like to be reminded but when you have been to as many matches as I have you see all guns will malfunction.

My suggestion is that if you practice enough and get involved with IDPA you will get sufficient malfunction practice and have a lot of fun doing it!

I agree 100%. I have yet to see a brand of gun that didn't fail at a match.....revolvers included.

You know I hate to admit that Glocks fail....but considering the percentage of people that shoot them in sports like IDPA, it is pretty common.......especially for the folks that enjoy aftermarket parts. Something about riding on the edge and falling off comes to mind

Practice those malfunction drills.....especially a type 3 that looks as if something puked loaded rounds into your gun's chamber!

Jason