Press Check?

TDC;9170702 You're right said:
I'm not really surprised you're baffled. Dogmatic thinking tends to obscure alternate points of view.
You load your way and I'll continue load mine, stupid as it is. I don't imagine I'll get too bent out of shape knowing you don't approve. But thanks anyway for the great advice.
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TDC said:
Your failure to fire is due to poor loading etiquette/procedure. Try mastering that manual of arms before introducing yet another step in the process that you won't due under stress.

TDC
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Thanks, I'll get right on that.

I've re-read this thread and noted the members who are in the "press check" camp and those that are in the "whatever else" camp.

With one exception, I'm not surprised by the responses I've seen.

Not at all.

I will say that I think the Press Check camp has done a very decent job of stating their opinion.
 
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I answered, and I press check.

I'll repeat, SOP is load, press check, holster. Everyone I work with does the same.

GunGuy34 said:
Why not just rack the slide completely if your unsure. Worst that happens is you lose one round. That goes for competition. Those that carry for a living, well I have only heard from one yet, and he doesnt press check.
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In my agency, press checks are not taught. Standard duty load is 3 full mags, and a top up round. Insert a mag, rack the action, remove the mag, insert a fresh mag, holster, and put the top up round in the magazine. If you can't put in the top up, then there is no round chambered.

Some agencies don't use a top up round (CBSA for sure, not positive on any other ones), which is when a press check might be good.
 
Clobbersauras said:
I will say that I think the Press Check camp has done a very decent job of stating their opinion.
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I agree, 100%. I can explain why I don't press check without belittling anybody.

The major reason is that I don't see the use when I load my autoloaders with a round holding only a single-round magazine. When I drop the barney mag, if I have a bare follower and the gun isn't obviously in some bizarre condition like an unclosed slide, I'm ready to go. Even if I did press check at this point, I don't know how I'm going to notice anything that I wouldn't already know. Somebody earlier mentioned the possibility of a messed-up round somehow getting caught with a press check. I suppose that's true, but I check my handloads over a few times during the process (I haven't shot factory ammunition in a long time, I'm cheap). If I'm going to check that one individual chambered round, I doubt I'm going to catch the defect when I can't even see the whole thing.

It's also one more step in the process. I'd be the last to claim to be an especially bright guy and I like simplicity. The extra step just introduces another opportunity for something to go wrong. Maybe that reaches some kind of equilibrium with the chance you'll catch a mistake, too. But it just seems redundant, like sweeping my safety off, then sweeping it off again just to be safe.

There's nothing wrong if it works for you, and obviously there's plenty of people who find value in doing it. I haven't seen an especially strong case to use it instead of or in addition to my current method. I I wasn't taught to load with the single-round mag then I'd probably be doing it.

skoal said:
Just farted..... had to press check to make sure I didnt sh_t myself
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lol
 
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