Hello everyone, I'm Chuck with Alien Gear Holsters,
and welcome to another episode of Concealed Carry Training Videos.
Today's video is going to be about clearing firearm malfunctions.
Ok, one malfunction you might experience with your weapon is known as an FTF, or a
failure to fire. You've loaded weapon - this one's unloaded, of course - you've loaded weapon,
you put a round in the chamber, you've acquired your target, you pull the trigger, and you get the ominous click,
but no bang. So, one of the things that can cause that is possibly bad ammunition or
a dirty weapon. What you want to check for when that happens, is make sure the
slide goes all the way into battery, you can look and see if it's... if it's up a
little bit. Might not be there all the way. What you want to do is rack it,
get that round out, get another one in there. Make sure it's there,
pull the trigger. If it happens again,
good possibility it could be a dirty firing pin, or a worn part in the weapon very possibly
the type of ammunition you use. You want to consult with your manufacturer and
see what ammunitions they've tested with, see what they approve.
Most manufacturers will list that on their websites o in the literature you get with your firearm.
Though, number one thing you want to check is: make you seated your magazine. Might not
have went in there. Some weapons don't fire if the magazine's not seated.
Rack a new round in there, try it again.
Traditionally, the ball ammunition - the round-nose, as it's known -
feeds into pretty much all auto loaders,
got a flat-nose, also got wadcutters,
this particular one is lead, these are copper jacketed.
You also have, for your bird hunters out there,
shot shells, which is basically a type of hollow point.
Then you gotta look at what your case material is made out of. Is it brass?
Is it aluminum? Is it nickel coated? Is it a hollow point? A lot of times, weapons will have
problems feeding hollow points, you gotta find out what kind of yours likes.
Once again check with their manufacturer on that.
Another malfunction you might experience is called the Failure To Eject.
And what that is is on a gas-operated weapon, when you're fired the
round, slide comes back, the ejector pulls the spent case out, and tosses in away.
So, some failures you'll experience
in that are known as a stovepipe. And what that is.... looks like that.
eject to shell, but it doesn't come all the way out, so therefore the slide never completes its cycle.
Some other failures you might experience is the case actually expands
inside the barrel, and the gases - there's not enough pressure to actually cycle the slide.
So would you do you grab it, you're gonna try racking it - release your magazine - get your magazine out of there...
One thing you're gonna want to carry with you with you at all times if you've
chosen to carry handgun, or use it a lot, is called an Ayoob Dejammer,
and this is a multi-use tool. For $15, I've had this one for 15 year, or actually going on
twenty years, comes in very handy. If you have an underpowered round, basically the wrong
type of powder or underpowered, there's not enough gas to a cycle that slide,
therefore the case can't clear the cycle every time. So you want to check your
ammunition and make sure on that. The next failure we want to talk about is called
the squib load, and the most common reason you get a squib load
is, once again, reloading. The squib load is once again, the gun fires, but it's - may sound completely different.
If you get something like that, you immediately want to stop, drop the magazine out,
make sure you can get it open, and make sure you can see through that barrel.
If you can't see through that barrel, then there's a bullet stuck in there.
Once again, you're gonna want to use the Ayoob Dejammer tool to get that bullet out of there
It's the same thing, you got your slide open, and you're just gonna push real hard till that bullet comes out.
And that's basically some of the failures you're gonna experience with your handgun over time.
Thank you for watching, and that sums it up for this episode of
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