I watched PDTV this week, and why? "Because I can." I am open to and enjoy learning things from others more wise than I but hearing "Because I can" over and over is making my ears ring!
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I watched PDTV this week, and why? "Because I can." I am open to and enjoy learning things from others more wise than I but hearing "Because I can" over and over is making my ears ring!
It must be one of his mantras. Maybe he'll explain it to the TV audience some day, so it won't seem so odd every time we hear it.
I'd really like to participate in one of his urban carbine classes some day. If he didn't invent the concept of the AR for civilian use, he's certainly one of the major pioneers.
He seems like the kind of guy where common sense still holds sway.
I've found the forward assist as useful as tits on a boar. If a round doesn't seat all the way (a common problem with the HK magazines I was issued while in Iraq) you were better off pulling the charging handle to the rear and letting it slam home again.
If you slap the mag, especially with the adrenaline flowing you may cause several rounds to jump/jar out of the feed lips into the mech.. If you use the bolt asssist and you have a damaged round, or debri in the mech, you may make it worse by attempting to jam the round into battery.with the forward assist. If you have a failure to fire you need to get rid of that round, you don't need to know what is wrong with the thing, just push the mag up, pull down to make sure it is seated fully and pull the op handle to chamber another round. How many Marines were killed in the "Hill Fights" for hill 881S. with a cleaning rod jammed down the bore?
First "if" you have a handgun you should transition to that and clear your rifle later. If not then do a "observe, push pull, rack, shoot". If it still doesn't shoot then do a double feed drill unless you observed what the problem was. "Immediate action drill" is a drill, you don't need to know exactly what is wrong. If the IA drill doesn't work then you need to take remedial action, reload, change weapons, pick one up off the ground, muzzle strike, fist, head butt, to an enemy and take his weapon, do something, even if it is seek cover or get the hell out of the area.
Just my opinion.
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