You only have to retain the mag in IDPA if it has rounds left in it, if it's empty you don't.I think IDPA you have to retain your mag ?🤷🏼♂️
I know uspsa dump it to the ground and keep shooting.
Real world I will shot till it’s empty
I don’t understand the point of retaining mags like that. Only when I practice mag changes I shoot 2 change mag shoot 2. Till they are emptied. But not pull mag from gun and stick it back in while shooting.
New York reload is the correct answer. Carry one LCP a pocket, thats 24 rounds of 380!Drop gun. Draw new gun.
Faster and more accurate is better in "real" world or in competition world.
I've got an LCP Max with an LCP reload.New York reload is the correct answer. Carry one LCP a pocket, thats 24 rounds of 380!
In all seriousness it depends on context. Tac reloads (from my limited experience and training) are taught to be done at 'lulls' in the fight. Emergency reloads when you are at slide lock. Neat to see different stuff though. Context is such a huge factor. Is my mag in a pocket? Do I have a duty belt on? Do I have to keep fighting or can I retreat and call for backup/cops?
I've got an LCP Max with an LCP reload.
Nothing like an accurate reload. Kills em dead every time.
Doing something other than egressing during a lull is a real world way to forfeit getting out alive.
In a competition, do whatever you want, that's a game.
Nothing like discussing “real-life” tactics on an Internet forum.
Talking about reload tactics and gunfighting as though it will ever be a thing in real life… that’s like debating the best technique to survive being struck by lightning while being bitten by a shark.
Yeah, it’s possible. It probably happened to someone, somewhere. No, it’s not worth a second thought. Might as well debate how to dodge meteorites or falling plane parts.
The only people that have attempted to collect data on civilian shootings over decades (like Tom Givens) have shown that nearly all defensive gun uses involve 0-to-3 rounds at a car-length or less with return fire unlikely (or part of an unaimed retreat). Most DGUs are resolved with no shooting. The rare high-round count shootings almost never involved an actual gunfight… they were stress-reflex mag dumps.
If you can admin load a J-frame after the fact with shaky hands, you have enough reloading skills to cover 99% of an insanely rare scenario.
Stay healthy, stay out of dumb places, and be able to shoot a 7-yard B8 in 1.5 seconds from concealment, and don’t stress the extremes. Yeah, it’s great to be really competent at gunhandling. No, it won’t increase your survivability.
(Don’t forget, most of the pistol instructors pushing complex training from a defensive/tactical angle are just grifters selling a fantasy legitimized by irrelevant “real world experience”… or no experience at all. SouthNarc ECQC is the pinnacle of good training. Big emphasis on the draw, fitness, fighting, and space management. If the social media for a defensive pistol course has dudes in cargo pants wearing battle rattle doing parlor tricks for coins/patches/belts, it’s entertrainment, not training.)
If someone don't try to kill me soon, my life's work will be pointless!
No one wants "died of old age" on their tombstone!
Mine is gonna say:
"Fumbled around trying to remember which pocket was the 'over 10 left' in the middle of a gunfight and was hit by a bus while distracted"
Like a true American Gunslanger!
Now that is Self-Actualization!
No one wants "died of old age" on their tombstone!
Mine is gonna say:
"Fumbled around trying to remember which pocket was the 'over 10 left' in the middle of a gunfight and was hit by a bus while distracted"
No one has masculine fantasies of de-escalating an argument, using a flashlight or pepper spray proactively, or warding off burglars with motion sensor lights. Shame!
No, due to extensive curvature on both front and back, that is contraindicated. If I can pick up a second LCP or Max I'm going to move the odd man out to plumbers crack carry lolI think that qualifies as asymmetrical warfare. I can only presume one doesn't do back pocket carry with those selections.