Poll: Poll - Press Check

[titsonritz]

And Steven Seagal.

So is running like a girl.

 

[OldTengu]

And Steven Seagal.

He is the subject of my favorite Tom Segura bit:

 

[titsonritz]

I don't and never will use the loaded mag tricks. Too much can happen for me to trust it.

Are you referring to the method I discribed above?

 

[Kruel J]

Are you referring to the method I discribed above?

Yes. Or a reasonable facsimile of such. To me, the only real way to check the tube is to….well….check the tube. Under stress I'd prefer not to have to remember the position of the round in the mag or try to see the tiny little holes in the back of the mag. I know a press check shouldn't be done under stressful conditions and generally aren't but…….I prefer simple and failsafe.

 

[TTSX]

I do a similar thing with my hunting rifles. They get loaded/unloaded often enough it could easily skip my mind and cost me a deer. Only time I press check a pistol is if I'm at the range and it feels like it might not have caught the first round.

 

[Jonnyuma]

And Steven Seagal.

You mean the one-finger-pushes-the-slide-back-cuz-the-prop-guy-installed-a-2#-recoil-spring-press-check?

That's my favorite.

 

[titsonritz]

a press check shouldn't be done under stressful conditions

Exactly.

And in the case of the AR, the charging handle and forward assist are two of the weaknesses of the gun and are better left alone.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Thumbs up!

 

[po18guy]

Ruger do not go forward like S&W and Taurus but rather push inward toward the frame

Picky picky. I forgot Charter Arms, Iver Johnson, Harrington and Richardson, High Standard, Starr, Merwin Hulbert & Co., Rast Gasser and a few others...

 

[Jonnyuma]

View attachment 877055


Thumbs up!

Steve would be standing there all dam day if they handed him a gun with a full length guide rod.

 

[Knobgoblin]

I practiced this one for a few weeks.
Both with glock and 5" all steel 1911.
Not sure why I did now.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Steve would be standing there all dam day if they handed him a gun with a full length guide rod.

No , he'd just break everyone's neck or kill them with a heart punch.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Nope.
Never really felt the need to do so with any semi auto pistol I have owned or the Colt Series '70 that I do own.

With that said...
It might be best to carry and practice what is safe and works for you...and not do what is safe and works for others.
Andy

 

[titsonritz]

No , he'd just break everyone's neck or kill them with a heart punch.

Unless it is Gene Lebell, then he'd poop his pants and go to sleep.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Night night
Keep ya bu**hole tight

 

[gmerkt]

Huh. I'd never heard the term before. In my little world, we don't have loaded guns around. So we follow the old LB PD safety rule of opening the action to make certain. My 10 year old grandson is gun crazy, I've drilled it into him that the first thing you do when you pick up a gun is to check to see if it's loaded. We weren't doing any gun things together for the first year of the Covid virus thing. Since I got vaccinated, we are doing stuff with our grandchildren again. First time my grandson came over, he wanted to look at the guns. First thing he did with every one of them I let him look at was check to see if they were loaded. He knows all the other safety rules (and then some) too.

I don't find it necessary nor desirable to to carry a concealed weapon all that often. I'm pretty careful about where I go. But when I do carry, I don't carry with a round in the chamber. Because I don't quite trust myself enough. Having an empty chamber is one extra step before crossing the Rubicon. I want to be absolutely certain before I pull the trigger. Yeah, I guess there are situations so emergent that you wouldn't have time to chamber a round. But then again, if stuff happened that fast, I probably wouldn't have time to draw the weapon anyway.

 

[Savage Jav]

I just feel if the extractor is protruded out the side. No way for it to be bumped out if a round isnt chambered,

 

[Alexx1401]

I do it now and then even though I know nothing has changed. Often when I do I think of a movie Sean Connery was in. Bunch of Cops waiting for a battle. One goes to "check the guns". The old guy says "did you already check them? Then leave them alone." I still don't know why I often feel the need to do it when I get a different gun out that I have not carried even though I know it's loaded. Piece of mind? Just one of those things? Who knows.

 

[titsonritz]

I just feel if the extractor is protruded out the side. No way for it to be bumped out if a round isnt chambered,

Assuming it is proper working condition.

 

[Savage Jav]

Assuming it is proper working condition.

Correct, was referring to my own piece. If I don't know the origin of the gun rack it or press check.