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Pat Rogers, Mike Pannone, Vickers etc Slapping the piss out of a mag on an open bolt can cause a volcano of rounds into your chamber, depending on the condition of your mags. Double feeds, triple feeds, bolt over, etc... Doing it repeatedly on a closed bolt can damage feed lips. Yes it's more difficult to push and pull on a closed bolt but it is recommended to download by 2. I know it sucks in jersey but we play the hand we're dealt. YMMV Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Checko is 100% correct. Don't go slapping mags. It's inefficient and can cause feeding malfunctions like double feeds (or worse - triple, quadruple, volcano) and can exacerbate any malfunction you already have. If you are doing SPORTS to clear malfunctions you aren't helping by yourself for many reasons and the Slap is one of them. Immediate action should simply be - Push/pull Roll the gun so the ejection port is down Run the charging handle Assess your threat and process as necessary On an open or closed bolt reload you should push then pull the mag - push until you feel/hear a click or think it's in. Then pull to ensure it is seated. It is just as fast and is infinitely more reliable and efficient.

Ask them what color the boathouse is at Hereford. Other than being next of kin or an employer looking to verify prior service, I don't think there's anything you can do other than ask the person in question to provide you with copies of their enlistment papers, DD 214,or other such documents.

Finally got some time behind a Tavor a few weeks back: I really like my MSAR, so its not a bullpup thing. The Tavor felt cheap and unbalanced. I didn't like the way the recoil felt, or how the "switchology" was laid out. It just never clicked like the MSAR did. Definitely not giving up my ARs though, not even for the MSAR.

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Agreed! Outstanding instructor, excellent value.

This. I think Atlantic Tactical in Somerset has the Beretta for ~$800. I had a Benelli shotgun. I don't anymore.

Ron Cohen ruins everything!

Why not? It's not a secret. Hell, they "portray" it in GI Jane.

I am issued a Glock at work and that's what I have to carry 40 hours a week. Off duty, I can carry any quality firearm I want if I can qualify with it. I had HKs, Sigs, S&Ws, 1911s.... If I shoot a non-Glock for a bit - enough to get as fast and accurate as I am with my Glocks - when I go back to the Glocks, I can't shoot them for shit. It takes a few hundred rounds to get back up to speed. I tried to fight it, but eventually I gave up and switched to all .40 Glocks, selling everything else (except for a 9mm Kahr and .380 LCP that I occasionally carry as BUGs). I decided to subscribe to the "beware the man with only one gun" theory. If we ever switch to a different duty gun, or when I retire and can choose whatever I want to carry, things may change. Until then, I'll keep shooting some flavor of Glock. The juice just ain't worth the squeeze.

Would have been bad if it was only the Sgt there too and he had a real gun. Having 2 officers there interfered with his OODA loop enough to let the good guys win.

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I am not concerned with the device causing any heart issues - unless they decide to zap someone strung out on coke, or with a severe pre-existing medical condition, it shouldn't be a problem. Tasers don't work that way. My WOW is from a use of force standpoint. What's next - win a raffle and take a hit of OC or a baton strike? I'm am printing this out and keeping it in my file for court. If I ever have to testify for using a Taser in someone, this is getting entered into evidence. "Your honor, people volunteered to be tased by people who won a raffle. It can't be as bad as the defendant is making out. It is certainly not as bad a other compliance techniques I could have used. No one is volunteering to be put in an armbar or getting bit by a K9."

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Good work by the Officers. Knowing he had a gun the whole time and was intent on killing cops made me cringe watching this video when he was behind the Sgt with camera walking out of the restaurant. On a side note, I freaking HATE strobes on a WML. They are as distracting to me as they are to whomever I am pointing at.

Wow! I can't see that ending well for anyone....

Nope. Don't really care about bullet weight. Possible key-holing may frustrate you regarding accuracy but it won't effect the function of the rifle. T Bill covered the spirit of my post. I probably should have said quality ammo from a well known and respected manufacturer that is known to run reliably instead of simply in-spec.

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Absutely 100% wrong. The world does not stop when you decide to pull your gun to defend yourself. A lot can happen between deciding you need your gun to protect yourself and getting it into play. The threshold for deadly force may no longer be present or your background or foreground may have changed taking away your shot. You must always be in control and the decision has to be conscious and deliberate when you press the trigger.

If you are building an AR make sure you buy in-spec ammo. It sucks trying to track down an issue with a newly built rifle, spending money in parts, only to have it turn out to be an ammo issue. I won't use steel cases ammo in my guns. I have had - and seen - nothing but issues. People have $2k wrapped up in their ARs. Then they pay $700 for a 3 day carbine course, plus travel and hotel expenses. Then they buy steel cased ammo so they can save $80 per 1K rounds and can't finish their class since their rifle chokes on the ammo - ultimately wasting their time and money. Not to mention wasting the time of everyone else in the class as they try to sort out their issues. Lowest cost is rarely best value.

22 to 1, if broken into 2 relays is fine. 11 to one on the line is doable for a competent instructor to address your issues on a 1 on 1 basis - and I haven't heard anything but good stuff about LAV's abilities to teach. Again, my concern isn't with Larry, it's with Alias.

What's the class maximum? Alias is famous for overbooking. I'm not paying $525 to be one of 40 students on the line with LAV. They did that with a PMac class in NJ and it was horrendous. There was little to no instruction beyond the demos conducted before each drill and he assigned other students to be assistant instructors.

Seriously look at the Blue Force Gear 10 Speed Chest Rig. It's perfect. Everyone that shoots an AR should have one.

If you read the description, it's actually 6 double stacked mags for 12 total.

I'll bet $100 that the KZ is the clone of Displaced Texans rig. Botach rips off other companies designs and copies them, selling them under the KZ line. Very unscrupulous. I know first hand a guy that designed a single point receiver end sling mount and asked Botach to carry it. They asked for a sample and he sent them one. The sent him a letter a few weeks later declining to carry his mount. A week later his mount was for sale as a KZ single point sling mount. He threatened to sue, they said go ahead, we can pay our lawyer more than yours and for longer - and that was that. They are crooks. Additionally, that is entirely too many mags on a chest rig. Heavy, uncomfortable, and hinders stable shooting platforms. Hell, the current standard loadout for a soldier going into a combat zone is only 7 mags - 6 on the body and one in the gun.