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[The Heretic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/ow7wq1

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[.45's and .38's]

HA!

 

[Member 24198]

You're doing it wong, bullet is supposed to be facing the same direction as the pointy end.

 

[albin25]

hmmm... While I'd like to believe in miracles*, I'd like to see the mag... it's more likely it was loaded backwards, and then he racked a round.





* (it's probably more likely that a Bigfoot was living un-detected in the White House.......
....ooops sorry, I forgot Michelle!)

 

[CRBMoA]

You are going to need to close the slide first. That is dangerous right there. Be careful!

 

[Xaevian]

I was thinking based on the title that this was a wrong hole post and I wasn't entirely wrong.

 

[Jonnyuma]

The odds of racking the slide to clear a jam and having the round land back into the chamber backwards?
1: I do not posess enough appendages to reliably count that high.

Hard to imagine, given the infinite number variables... but I hesitate to call it impossible.

Even "professionals" get it wrong sometimes

 

[P7M13]

43x lodged in there pretty good after ejection and landing back in the barrel

Uh, you may have pulled the slide back, but it was never ejected.

 

[CRBMoA]

 

[Ruger Rich]

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This would make me believe in things that I don't want to think about.

 

[TTSX]

Staged

 

[JO JO]

I once seen a a guy load a mag backwards but never seen one chambered backwards

 

[TCOV]

You are going to need to close the slide first. That is dangerous right there. Be careful!

Just use your thumb or finger to pry the round out or a cleaning rod down the barrel to push it out the chamber. It can't fire in the position it's in.

 

[Stomper]

I have a G43 and G43x that have been my daily carry pieces for YEARS now. Except for the front slide-cut serrations on the 43x, they have the same slides and barrels that can interchange…. no, nope, never have.

 

[CRBMoA]

Just use your thumb or finger to pry the round out or a cleaning rod down the barrel to push it out the chamber. It can't fire in the position it's in.

 

[gmerkt]

cleaning rod down the barrel to push it out the chamber.

Do not stick a cleaning rod down the barrel, to push a round out like this. It has a live primer, to be on the safe side, don't use any tool that might touch the primer.

 

[CRBMoA]

I DID NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT CLEARING THE JAM!

Wow - Drink some coffee, Fellas!

 

[TCOV]

[B]CRBMoA[/B], I think you need to say the words, just to make sure.

Do not stick a cleaning rod down the barrel, to push a round out like this. It has a live primer, to be on the safe side, don't use any tool that might touch the primer.

I have had this happen where I think the round flipped over on feeding and if you lock the slide it will usually fall out or may need a light tap. You won't need enough force to set off primer and with a rod or dowel over primer size there is no chance of setting of the primer. Reloading uses a rod primer diameter with a fair amount of force and no problem. Use your brain and lose the paranoia.

 

[Certaindeaf]

This is why revolvers.

 

[bigbearbear]

This happens all the time in my H&K pistols, I followed the example on their brochure on how to load their magazines and my bullets always end up backwards.