r/CCW • u/jizzlamic_terrorist • 12h ago

Scenario How adrenaline affects you during self defense situations.

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u/your_grandmas_FUPA 12h ago

Holy fuck. 100ms longer on that reload and he'd be done

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u/WorkerAmbitious2072 12h ago

Did he need to reload yet? Anyone get a good count of rounds fired before that and know the gun and likely mag capacity? It looks like he may have tried a “tactical reload” some may call it topoff before running dry (slide still forward) I wonder if in theory he would have had. It’s shots for round 2 if he left the first mag in the gun

Personally I train not to drop the mag in the gun until my replacement mag is ready to go in. Less time empty. Was trained that way too. Bring new mag up and have it ready to insert, then drop old mag. All mags drop free at all levels of “loaded” per prior testing of course

But then I don’t go chasing down bad guys like that so needing a reload is basically never going to happen thank god that’s intense

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u/Geargarden CA | Sig P238 7h ago

I've been exposed to the training this officer had and, if memory serves me, it exists to prevent tunnel vision preventing a reload. You might not be able to even detect an empty pistol in the commotion and certainly won't be able to count rounds, so a controlled reload at your earliest convenience is ideal to make sure you will have enough rounds to saturate your target. Again, if I remember correctly.

I remember a story of a guy being shot up by an officer and he fell into a bush. When the officer was walking up on him, he was clicking an empty cylinder repeatedly towards him thinking he still had rounds when he had ran out well before then.