🚀 go-pugleaf

gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
#In article <1993Jan25.200540.3372@email.tuwien.ac.at> holger@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Holger Reusch (Dipl. Gerhard + Joe)) writes:
##-  In case of misfire, the Glock trigger can't be pulled again
##   without racking the slide.  Same situation as with SA pistols.
##   With the SIG I have the additional option of pulling the
##   trigger again.

#But one could alternatively say that with a Glock one doesn't even
#THINK about wasting time pulling the trigger repeatedly when it isn't
#going to help anyway..

Point well taken.  Especially with 15+ rounds per magazine doing the
tap-rack-bang immediately is certainly the more sensible way to handle
a misfire.  In that case a single maybe-ok cartridge is a small price
for a new one.  Especially for defense purposes, it's not optimal to
keep pulling.

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| Holger Reusch                             |
| Technical University of Vienna, Austria <-+--- No kangaroos here,
| Dept. for Real-Time Systems               |    sorry!
| holger@vmars.tuwien.ac.at                 |