Grump
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I've tried it in dozens of live-fire exercises and practiced it dry and it's still hit and miss. Even tried to duplicate the form used demonstrated by one of the shooting school gurus on an episode of Shooting Gallery. How do I fix the following problems?
-when taking the reload mag deep in my support hand, the base of the retained mag taken between my ring/pinkie and bird finger is in the way of getting a good mag-slam to get the full mag fully seated. If I let the retained mag rotate downward so it's 90 degrees from the reload mag, it works better but I drop the retained mag about one out of 4 or 5 reloads.
-taking the reload mag high in my support hand leaves more room to retain the other mag, and gives me the "ball" of my index finger (think the ball of your foot) for a nice mag-slam insertion on the reload, but that's not a reliable source of power for that move. It misses about one of every four or five reloads. Seems there's not enough mass in my hand to pull it off--bone & joint flex, sometimes it bruises me, and speeding up my hand to compensate for lack of mass/momentum can result in the retained mag--again!!!--popping out of my support hand.
-I even tried reversing the two-mag mambo so the retained mag is in between my thumb and index finger, with the reload out near the knive-edge of my hand. That seems to work better--the heel of my hand can meaningfully reach the baseplate and the better grip on the retained mag prevents drop-itis intermittenus. However, the initial mag-grab is a bit clumsy and I fear a different type of mag-fumble problem
So before I try any more practice of the third technique, anyone have any pointers for a guy with small hands?
Speaking from a pure tactics perspective, I would probably do a real-life tac reload by putting the retained mag in my teeth and grabbing the spare with a single-purpose support hand. I'd stow the thing as possible, or use it, based on the action at hand.
-when taking the reload mag deep in my support hand, the base of the retained mag taken between my ring/pinkie and bird finger is in the way of getting a good mag-slam to get the full mag fully seated. If I let the retained mag rotate downward so it's 90 degrees from the reload mag, it works better but I drop the retained mag about one out of 4 or 5 reloads.
-taking the reload mag high in my support hand leaves more room to retain the other mag, and gives me the "ball" of my index finger (think the ball of your foot) for a nice mag-slam insertion on the reload, but that's not a reliable source of power for that move. It misses about one of every four or five reloads. Seems there's not enough mass in my hand to pull it off--bone & joint flex, sometimes it bruises me, and speeding up my hand to compensate for lack of mass/momentum can result in the retained mag--again!!!--popping out of my support hand.
-I even tried reversing the two-mag mambo so the retained mag is in between my thumb and index finger, with the reload out near the knive-edge of my hand. That seems to work better--the heel of my hand can meaningfully reach the baseplate and the better grip on the retained mag prevents drop-itis intermittenus. However, the initial mag-grab is a bit clumsy and I fear a different type of mag-fumble problem
So before I try any more practice of the third technique, anyone have any pointers for a guy with small hands?
Speaking from a pure tactics perspective, I would probably do a real-life tac reload by putting the retained mag in my teeth and grabbing the spare with a single-purpose support hand. I'd stow the thing as possible, or use it, based on the action at hand.