Is second strike capability vastly overrated?

[ribbonstone]

It's like a spare tire....useless until you need it.

Think it is human nature to pull the trigger again (in the case of triggers that don't reset, still tend to TRY to pull them a scond time). Not unlike a light switch that fails to turn on a light...will flip it again even though on some level we know the light is burned out.

Would be like that with a non-resetting trigger...we'd KNOW we should stroke the slide, but doubt we could over ride the urge to pull the trigger again..then we'd decide to go for the slide and eject the offending round.

In the case of a "real" dud round, would be the loss of about 1/8th second on the second pull and the message getting to your hand to move on to plan "B".

Glock shooters are not immune...even though teh trigger won't reset and allow a seond "click" can watch them strok that non-responding trigger a second time when a dummy round comes up in training.

 

[MCgunner]

In my opinion, yeah.

+1 If a round don't go off and the gun is a 100% reliable gun far as ignition goes, it probably ain't going to go off with a second hit. It's probably a dud primer, so wasting time pulling the trigger might get you killed when you can just rack and bang. That's my thinking about it, anyway, and I prefer my Kel Tec to a Glock, but for other reasons than "second strike capability". I really couldn't care less about that.

Anyway, quality ammo ain't gonna go click. If it does, it must be 50 years old stored in a 150 degree 90 percent humid container or something.