TacticalG34Tupperware Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 At my second USPSA match ever I had seen a lot of guys loading a barney round into their guns on the make ready order, and thinking that was a good idea, started doing it myself. The third stage of the match as I was making ready I pulled a mag, loaded a barney, dropped the mag back in my pocket and holstered the gun. After the buzzer I drew, fired one shot and was greatly surprised when my pistol refused to cycle ammunition out of the magazines hanging on my belt. Always remember to seat a fresh magazine before you re-holster at the beginning of a stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motosapiens Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 At my second USPSA match ever I had seen a lot of guys loading a barney round into their guns on the make ready order, and thinking that was a good idea, started doing it myself. The third stage of the match as I was making ready I pulled a mag, loaded a barney, dropped the mag back in my pocket and holstered the gun. After the buzzer I drew, fired one shot and was greatly surprised when my pistol refused to cycle ammunition out of the magazines hanging on my belt. Always remember to seat a fresh magazine before you re-holster at the beginning of a stage. at least you had magazines on your belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superslowmo Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 At my second USPSA match ever I had seen a lot of guys loading a barney round into their guns on the make ready order, and thinking that was a good idea, started doing it myself. The third stage of the match as I was making ready I pulled a mag, loaded a barney, dropped the mag back in my pocket and holstered the gun. After the buzzer I drew, fired one shot and was greatly surprised when my pistol refused to cycle ammunition out of the magazines hanging on my belt. Always remember to seat a fresh magazine before you re-holster at the beginning of a stage. at least you had magazines on your belt. What moto said! I have been loading my 140mm mags down a round because I had an instance where I made ready, and when I spun and drew on the buzzer had my mag drop right out. I thought I had the thing set and secure when I holstered but that wasn't the case. Of course that was on the initial draw on an El Prez style steel run, I was not happy at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepelepew Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 At the local USPSA matches, I usually provide coaching as the RO when I see a mistake like this about to happen. For new shooters it is a good idea for the RO to make sure their ready. Since I am the RO, I get to make the discretion if I incur a penalty for the coaching or not. At bigger matches or with very experienced shooters, they're on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron169 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 I saw someone do it at area 6 last weekend. Loaded table start, they barbeyed up and put the mag in the table. Buzzer went off, one shot click. Took him a few to recover. Funny thing, had a REM halfway through and hit a reshoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliveb Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Couple of weeks ago I had a stage in which the window of time in which to make a reload was pretty short. In order to make 100% certain that the mag would seat easily, I decided to strip off 2 rounds rather than the usual 1. I did this and got distracted (was SO-ing as well)...did it 2 more times so I was down to 11 rounds from my usual 17..as can be predicted I ran dry half way through an array - and since my gun doesn't lock open, it took me a few moments to figure things out - much to my chum's pleasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racknrider Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I got in the shooters box on a classifier stage last week. It was a surrender position start so I wanted to make sure I could find my gun. Suddenly realized I had absolutely no ammo on my person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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