Why do people press check?

[IVC]

Giving it thought, I realized, I check guns if theyre loaded every time I pick one up. I rack, look in the chamber, drop the slide and pull the trigger.

The first time it goes "bang" you'll adjust your protocol to the correct one.

It is *critical* to look in TWO places - in the chamber and down the magazine well. If you don't, you're counting on not forgetting to pull out the magazine. You will virtually never forget to drop the magazine except when you're dealing with malfunctions, or are just dealing with some loose rounds, or you're getting distracted by an unexpected safety violation next to you... You look down the magazine well to confirm that dropping the slide won't make the empty chamber, well, not so empty.

And your first step should be "magazine out," not racking the slide. For people who deal with unloaded guns all the time, it's a convenient shortcut since the follower will lock the slide for them, but it's a highly incorrect protocol.

[Tripplet918]

The first time it goes "bang" you'll adjust your protocol to the correct one.

It is *critical* to look in TWO places - in the chamber and down the magazine well. If you don't, you're counting on not forgetting to pull out the magazine. You will virtually never forget to drop the magazine except when you're dealing with malfunctions, or are just dealing with some loose rounds, or you're getting distracted by an unexpected safety violation next to you... You look down the magazine well to confirm that dropping the slide won't make the empty chamber, well, not so empty.

And your first step should be "magazine out," not racking the slide. For people who deal with unloaded guns all the time, it's a convenient shortcut since the follower will lock the slide for them, but it's a highly incorrect protocol.

All true. I wasnt writing a dissertation on safety so my post was not meant to be definitive.

[Tripplet918]

It?s Ralph Waldo Emerson in Stockton Ca.

I may not get out much, or be a literary genius. But I?d be smart enough to get the hell out of Stockton.

Can?t wait for your next rookie gun question you will answer yourself.

Youre all about insults aren't you.

I don't live in Stockton. Thats to befuddle goons and potential stalkers. Im glad it works.

[madland]

Or "HEAT".

Al Pacino also does a press check before he and Wes Studi go in after Henry Rollins.

[SarcoBlaster]

They don?t know how to rub there finger over the ejector. If it has one in the chamber it sticks out a smidge. Ask Gaston.

Extractor. And not all guns have external ones. Ask John.

[stormvet]

Youre all about insults aren't you.

I don't live in Stockton. Thats to befuddle goons and potential stalkers. Im glad it works.

Sure, you called me and another member goons and I?m about insults.

Rest your neck and just ask your next stupid question so you can answer it.

[Tripplet918]

Sure, you called me and another member goons and I?m about insults.

Rest your neck and just ask your next stupid question so you can answer it.

It must be sad where u are in life to be picking fights on the internet for absolutely no reason than having nothing better going on.

“Oh, a post. ima be a dick. Ooooh, that makes me feel alive.” Lol

[The Gleam]

I do it. It's OCD in my case.

Do you even press check bro? I can press check 350!

Sometimes, between client meetings, lunch, and trips to the Land of Nod, I'll pull every gun out of the safes and press check the hell out of them, twice, to keep up on my press checking skills, run real-time analysis on the latest press-checking modes, styles, fashion, trends, form, and protocol, but mostly to be sure that those that need to be loaded are indeed loaded, and verify that they didn't go unload themselves when I wasn't looking. I do it again at every opportunity between sleep and wake, because true operators press check with planned conviction rather than as a meticulous engrained habit.


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[stormvet]

It must be sad where u are in life to be picking fights on the internet for absolutely no reason than having nothing better going on.

?Oh, a post. ima be a dick. Ooooh, that makes me feel alive.? Lol

If this is your. Idea of picking a fight, you are a sheltered little child aren?t you.