Playing devils advocate here, but you can't show that his loading procedure was an 'advantage' unless you only measure the time it took from magazine in the gun to round in the chamber. Too many other variables after that.
Tool for the box...absolutely....in the competition circuit IMO. Could it work in a defensive scenario? Sure. But I trust other methods that are more positive and arguably about the same speed, if not a few fractions of a second slower.
you can't show that his loading procedure was an 'advantage' unless you only measure the time it took from magazine in the gun to round in the chamber. Too many other variables after that.
Why?
The answer, because he can. (Though the trick is most useful in a game setting.)
The gentleman in the first pic can do it with any Glock, all of them, with factory springs.
I tried it.................and got what I affectionally call "Glock elbow". I did get the trigger to reset, but that was it.
That said, it is a neat trick.
Good points, Tim.
What I was getting at was if one looks at any shooting situation as a problem that needs to be solved, a second can be significant in the final anaysis. Like Bennie Cooley would say, maybe not THE way, but it is A way.
rvb said:Where it buys time, as in one of the vids floating around of a match, is when the weak hand can also be doing something 'else.' In the match course shown, it saved time since a "traditional" method would have you do two steps.... 1) charge the gun and 2) grab the prop. Only then could he have moved away from the start position.
Agreed all the way around. (It's Tom, BTW )
For anyone who was at that match, did the other slower shooters use a traditional two handed load, then grab the ammo box? Did anybody use a different variation of a one handed load? Curious if any of that is on video for comparisons sake.
And nobody is going to let you run the slide on your belt or pocket in competition. Can you say DQ?