hey everybody Jason here with skeleton key tactical we're at alien gear holsters up in
Idaho working through some drills on the range I want to talk with you a little bit about the
basic load sequence and unload sequence that you can do safely with your pistol
let's start with the load I'm gonna there's two different ways you can do this and both of them
are acceptable in my mind a lot of people start with the slide lock to the rear a lot of ranges
require you to have a heavier pistol with the slide lock to the rear in the holster when you're
when you're moving around just so they know you're safe so if you're if your slides already rear then
we double check that it's clear by looking in the chamber looking down at the magazine well
and also at the front of the breech face right here where the bullet actually goes to go into
the end of the chamber once we know that's clear we don't have an obstruction we take our magazine
goes into the magazine well until it clicks and then we work our slide by releasing it this way
and we're loaded most pistols nowadays have some sort of a loaded chamber indicator on a Glock of a
extractor sticks out just far enough on the right side that you can feel it with your thumb if you
know what to feel for some of the other guns have a thing that sticks up on the slide there's all
the ones that have a little hole right here at the end of it where the slide runs into the back
of the barrel lock up and you can see the piece of brass down in there doesn't really matter it's
just a helpful to the shooter so that's that's one technique all right the second version of this is
if I have my slide already forward and I know my gun is clear and I've already I've already
done that this is the load that I normally do because I'm so lazy I don't even want to bother
with locking my slide to the rear beat to begin so I go to one motion I know it's clear before I
put it in my holster I pull it out of my holster I'll check it one or two more times to make sure
I'm good I pull my magazine out and simply place the magazine in again until it clicks I know it's
seated and then I'm gonna run the slide all the way back it compress that spring all the way till
it won't go any more let the gun go forward and by shot gonna sling in my hand back this way so all
of the energy that's in that stored spring pushes that slide in and puts that that bullet and loads
it in the chamber like it's supposed to and then that's that's me loaded no issues with that at all
the other thing you can do when you do that is we will just go through this real quick if my slide
is back the other thing I can do when I insert the magazine and click it like that instead of shotgun
and/or sling in the slide I can simply come up here to the slider release button with my shooting
hand or my non-shooting hand either one and push that button and that compressed spring that's
locked open by design on the slide by that slide stop will push that slide forward and load that
bullet into the chamber no issues and then I'm ready to holster up make sure I'm good to start
shooting and get on with my day when we finish shooting and we want to unload our pistol safely
unlike the load there's only one way to do this correctly when I get done whether I've expended
all my a bullet if I'm finished doing whatever doing I'm shooting I'm going to push my magazine
release button right here drop my magazine out a lot of people refer to that as removing the source
of supply if this is my magazine that holds all my bullets it's a it's a storage and feeding device
for the gun so if I take this out first when I worked my slide now I don't have a source of
supply that's going to feed another one in I can't I can't make an accident and do this backwards so
I'm gonna work it a couple times my technique for this is I do a couple of those I pick it up well
I still have my ear Pro on and I haven't called the range cold yet and I aim at a target that
I've already been shooting at and I squeeze the trigger and then I come back in one more time and
either run it or lock it to the rear and put it in my holster and it's safe and everyone around
me can see that it's safe got any questions on that go check us out on youtube channel for us
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