Day 5 – fourteen days to be a better shooter

• By tire iron
• 1 June, 2014
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DAY 5

Day 5 is all about Type II malfunction clearance drills.  The Type II malfunction is typified by poor ejection, and results in an expended shell being stuck in the ejection port.  It is commonly called a “stove pipe” malfunction because it looks like the handgun or rifle grew a chimney out of the ejection port.

Type II Malfunction, or Stove Pipe

Causes

There are a couple of causes of the Type II malfunction.  They are:

1. weak wristed shooting (if you limp wrist some handguns, i.e. don’t have a firm wrist) which actually allows the gun to rise in recoil too much and too fast, so much so that the slide actually catches the expended shell in the ejection port.

2. Weak ammo, weak extractor, damaged ejector

Do we care what caused the malfunction?

When we are at the range testing a particular firearm to see if it is worthy of depending upon for our life, we absolutley care what kind of malfunctions and the frequency of malfunctions that particular handgun or rifle displays.  In order for me to depend upon it, it must fire 1,000 uneventful rounds before I will trust it.

However, once we have “vetted” a firearm, when we are training for the real world, we DON’T care why it malfunctioned, all we care about is getting it back up and running AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Day 5 – Clearing a Type II

You set up a Type II (Stove Pipe) by taking a fired piece of brass and sticking it in the ejection port between the slide and barrel.  Then insert a magazine into the magazine well (the magazine should contain at least 1 dummy round).

The remedy for this type of malf is EXACTLY the same at for Day 4, or Type I malfunction clearance drill. (We try to keep things simple.)

We bring the handgun (or carbine or rifle) up into our peripheral vision, and ATTACK that magazine (make sure it is seated) and ATTACK the slide (or charging handle / bolt handle) and get back on target as fire as necessary.

DAY 5 PRACTICE

Perform this drill 20 times, SLOWLY, while watching what you do.

THEN – perform this drill 20 time BLINDFOLDED.

Follow this up with 20 times without the blindfold, but WITHOUT looking at the firearm.

Check out the video HERE.