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From: L/E trainers
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003
21:51:12 EST
2 Dec 03
Sage advice from a good friend:
"I know you don't like Wolf
ammunition, and I discovered why last weekend. I was shooting it
through my G36 at a local range, and, sure enough, I got to practice
a lot of stoppage reduction drills!
A sobering bit of reality hit home
during one of the many stoppage exercises: an empty case first stove
piped, and then somehow got completely turned around and forthwith
went into the chamber backwards. The slide immediately went forward
striking the case mouth, thus wedging the entire case tightly into
the chamber. Of course, the extractor was incapable of pulling it
back out, and I was left with a pistol that would not shoot and
could not be restored to action quickly.
This somber event reminded me
(luckily on the range) that perfectly good pistols can be
rendered useless by this phenomenon in the blink of an eye. I,
then and there:
(1) promised myself always to
carry a backup gun! I will no longer walk around with just one
gun.
(2) ordered a Dejammer from
Mas Ayoob, which I will carry faithfully, as you do. I once
wondered why. Not any more!
(3) decided I've used Wolf ammunition
for the last time!
Lesson: Pistol cases wedging into the
chamber backward (as described above) is something we see all the
time. If you routinely carry a range rod (I like Mas Ayoob's
Dejammer), knocking the stuck case out from the front is easily and
quickly done. If you don't, you'll have to locate one before your
pistol can be returned to action. Thus, routinely carrying a
range rod makes a lot of sense.
Backup guns are a really good idea,
as we can see. NYPD guys taught us long ago that the fastest
reload and also the fastest stoppage reduction is smoothly producing
a second pistol!
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