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Clint Smith on loading a handgun from empty

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[UrbanKnight12]

Clint Smith is a god among men!

[monimstarfox]

lol "unless your robby lathan unless you are watching this robby and i am sure your not"

Rofl this guy is hilarious and a good teacher

[jkatz44]

What's the point of keeping the gun "between you and the threat" if it is empty? Reload the way you are most proficient and comfortable with and have practiced.

[Solidgun]

@mrrightwing1000 While they do say this in the manual, I have a well broken in Kahr P and PM series in 9, 40 and 45 that function by racking the slide to chamber a round. They have not had any failures and all of them have over 500 rounds and spent time on tactical classes. I have had issues shortly after their break in recommendation of 200 rounds, but like any firearm I own, I don't mind carrying them after reliability testing.

[BooBooToo]

@mrrightwing1000 Better not to buy a Kahr IMO.

[grantorino2009]

@ALEX165ALICKI He's using a Summer Special IWB by Milt Sparks.

[wcropp1]

@wcropp1 of them had a heel magazine release. I'm sure there are more automatics without drop free magazines from the past, but any military/police pistol made in a Western nation in the past 100 years (since the invention of the 1911, basically) should use drop free magazines. The only exceptions I can think of are pre-1911 automatics and some older European pistols, particularly Soviet designed ones.

[wcropp1]

@wcropp1 with a Browning style magazine release and non drop free magazines--that's one of the strong points of the Browning release and would in some ways defeat the purpose. This category mostly includes Com-Bloc pistols, such as the Tokarev and Makarov, at least as far as anything relatively common goes, and of the two the Makarov has a heel mag release, and I *think* the Tokarev has a Browning style one and mags that don't drop free. Old Colt autos may not drop free, but I know at least some

[wcropp1]

@dmckenn2 Many non-drop free magazine pistols also have a "European style" magazine release at the heel of the grip, in which case your hand will already be in place to pull out the magazine anyway. Otherwise you would release a Browning-style release with your firing hand and pull the mag out with your off hand. Either way, it's a two handed affair and a bit slower than reloading a gun with drop free mags due to the added step. Good to practice though. I don't know of many guns (cont.)

[PHYSICALFLUIDITY]

1:48 he talks like hes dumb

even though hes a gun genious

[ALEX165ALICKI]

@UrbanTiger74 Just wondering what IWB holster he is using there.? Does anyone know.?

[Skanklongandprosper]

"...racked the action, what I've done is loaded every single pistol on the planet and thats my priority." tell the truth