Originally Posted by
hogarth
Ugh. Okay, step 1, with no guns or mags involved, stand with your hands on your hips. Now, look at your hands. Are your 4 fingers facing forward, with your thumbs behind your hips? Or do you stand like Forrest Gump with your thumb forward?
If you have your 4 fingers forward, then positioning your mags with the bullets forward (and yes, obviously the mag is upside down. I still fail to see how a mag pouch can position the mag with the bullets on top, since the baseplate is always the widest part of the mag) is the most ergonomic way of grabbing the spare mag.
As you reach down for the mag, the bottom of the mag (which is facing up) will end up in your palm, thumb will be behind, forefinger down the front spine of the mag. Pull up, clear pouch, and then just bring your elbow in to your side as you rotate your wrist to bring mag up to gun. If your fingers are long enough, your forefinger tip should be on the tip of that top round in the mag. Insert mag, and then your palm is already on the bottom of the mag (since the time you grabbed the mag in your pouch), so you just slam it home. Done.
Accessing it with bullets facing backward gives you purchase only toward the bottom of the mag, not along its whole length. You also won't naturally be "pointing" with your forefinger into the magwell. It's unnatural and a waste, as is this dude's training, from what I have seen.
Thanks Hogarth for once again for being a pompous ass. I ask a simple question and you act as if you the unquestionable expert. Just because I was trained differently does not make my method wrong. You know nothing about me. How do you know or not if I carry a certain way because of physical limitations. I guaranty that the way I carry is just as fast, if not faster than the way you "expertly" carry. Don't bother to respond. I'm done with is crap.
If at first you don't succeed, take a hammer to it. If you break it you probably needed to replace it anyway.
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