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Proper Grip and Jams

rballirballi Member Posts: 770 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2002 in Ask the Experts
Just a tip for those of you who are about to throw your guns away because they jam. I just got a Colt Mustang 380 and took it to the range to test it out. I didn't really know what to expect; I got a jam at the end of the first mag full, tried it again, same thing. Gun didn't look dirty or too lubed up. On the third try I got a jam and noticed the mag was sticking out. My grip or my paws were pushing down on the mag release just enough to let it come down to not feed properly. The bottom of my hand was keeping it from dropping out. I adjusted my grip and shot the rest of the box with no hicc'ups.Before you give up on a gun, consider everything.Roy
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  • ref44ref44 Member Posts: 251 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good time to mention as well the need to hold a semi-auto with a good grip...that is, give it something to recoil against. I taught the Texas CHL training a few years ago, and failure to do this was a common occurrence, especially with folks just learning to shoot or changing from a revolver to a semi-auto. In theory, if you could move the gun backward at a rate identical to the speed of the slide coming back, the brass would never leave the chamber.
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  • tidemantideman Member Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ref44 has it right. I remember a friend of mine had a Glock 17 at the range. It shot perfectly until his 18 yr. old daughter shot it. Every 3rd. round stovepiped. She was holding it too loosely and her wrists and hands were absorbing too much recoil. The slide couldn't operate correctly.Hold your handguns a little tighter and you may be suprised that danged jamming has stopped. It does make a difference.Tideman
    "Don't shoot to stop 'em, Shoot to Destroy 'em!"
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  • gravediggergravedigger Member Posts: 945 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On an odd, similar note: When my wife shoots my Sig P226 (9mm)with UMC ammo it jams fairly often. It never jams with any other ammo that she shoots in it, though. My Sig has NEVER jammed with me.-Marcus
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I learned from a very respected firearms instructor how to clear that particular type of malfunction, called improperly seated magazine jam.This type of jam occurs either when the magazine was not completely pushed into the locked position by the operator, or when the operation unintentionally operates the magazine release unlocking it from position, and not round has been chambered nor is one caught in the action.I was tought this basic procedure:1) slam the magazine into the locked position.2) manipulate the slide .3)ready to go.Hope this helps
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