Joe,
We've discussed this before.
Tap Rack & pull was designed for the M-16 series rifle, not a pistol. On most pistol magazines you cannot simply tap the magazines because not enough of the magazine is extended beyond the magazine well to properly perform the “tap” procedure. Yes, I’m aware many game shooters run this malfunction drill, then again they’re game shooters and many apply magazine “shoes” to their magazines to ensure this drill works, also, the application of a magazine shoe allows the shooter to properly seat the magazine in the first place.
If you keep your weapon clean and oiled, if you learn the proper techniques of inserting a magazine into a pistol, and if you take instruction from authentic weapons instructors you will never again “tap” a pistol magazine.
Stove pipe jam……. Funny I've only witnessed this sort of jam on one and only one model of semi-auto pistol.
A bad or broken extractor would be a catastrophic malfunction and no IAD will solve the problem.
Racking the slide to displace a stove pipe jam is a good idea, turning one’s wrist 180 degrees and then racking the weapon while it is upside down, a better idea.
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Originally Posted by Smokin Joe
Class 3 = Double feed
::CAUSE:: when you racked the slide (to fix 1 or 2) you didn't rack it all the way to the rear, as a result the first casing did not fully extract. Could be a bad ammo issue as well such as a squip or pip round but that is on the very low end of the percentages.
::FIX:: Rack the slide HARD when you fix 1 or 2 so you don't cause #3.
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If one does not know how to drive a car one should not get behind the wheel. If one does not know how to properly manipulate a weapon and ammunition they should not be attempting to use one. I have watched too many weapons instructors “ride” the slide forward when loading their semi-auto pistols. Riding a slide when loading a pistol is a recipe for disaster and it’s also the mark of a rank amateur. It can cause the extractor not to seat properly resulting in a failure to extract.
A pistol does not, cannot, double feed like a semi-auto rifle, because of the bullet size and the close proximity of the chamber the "empty" shell casing failed to eject all the way and the new round is most likely pushing upward, holding the empty casing in place against the slide. Immediate action should be turning the wrist 180 degrees & racking the slide.
(A double feed is two “live” rounds attempting to chamber at the same time. The next time a pistol weapons instructor brings up a pistol double feeding I expect you to fix his wagon.)
TS