{"id":5796,"date":"2017-02-17T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2017-03-03T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T20:46:50","slug":"reload-semi-automatic-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/reload-semi-automatic-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reload a Semi-Automatic Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reloading a pistol is simple &#8212; take out the empty magazine and stick in a fully loaded one. But this process seems so trivial on the surface that many shooters overlook the fact that there is a technique involved in performing a pistol reload quickly and smoothly. As I&#8217;ll discuss below, armed citizens\u00a0very rarely reload (or even have the need to reload) in actual violent encounters. However, in the few instances I&#8217;ve seen of mid-fight reloads from surveillance camera footage, it often\u00a0takes the person 10-15 seconds or more to get the empty gun ready again, and typically\u00a0involves lots of fumbling. In the middle of a violent attack, 10 seconds is an eternity.<\/span><\/p> <p>I will not argue that you should devote a large portion of your limited training time to perfecting your reloading technique, but it&#8217;s an easy skill to learn at a basic level, and a vitally\u00a0important skill to have if you actually need it. Take a few minutes to watch the video or read the transcript that follows for a quick tutorial on some basic semi-auto reloading techniques.<\/p> <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2IpJM5HyIM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p> <hr \/> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The need to reload a pistol rarely comes up in actual defensive shootings, especially if you\u2019re not in law enforcement. It\u2019s not a skill I would suggest you prioritize or spend a ton of dedicated practice time on unless you\u2019re interested in competition. But, just like I said with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/reload-defensive-shotgun\/\">shotgun reload<\/a> a few weeks ago, since you have to reload the gun when you\u2019re at the range anyway, you might as well learn and practice a technique that can be used in a defensive context. You don\u2019t necessarily need a lightning fast reload, but you should be able to do it smoothly and consistently without fumbling. So let\u2019s take a look at some techniques.<\/span><\/p> <h2><strong>Emergency Reload<\/strong><\/h2> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the gun has been fired until it\u2019s empty and the slide is locked back, we need to do an emergency reload.<\/span><\/p> <div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p> <noscript class=\"idle-load\"><div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"> <div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\"> <div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_krba5xtkgc dnt=1 seo=false videoFoam=true\" style=\"height:100%;position:relative;width:100%\">&nbsp;<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/noscript> <\/div> <h6><em>(click to pause\/play)<\/em><\/h6> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The first step is to drop your elbow down and bring the gun inward toward your chin. At the same time, rotate it as if you were going to look through the trigger guard. But you don\u2019t actually want it up at eye-level. The gun should be just <em>below<\/em> eye level so you can keep your head up and maintain awareness of what\u2019s going on around you.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While you\u2019re doing that, move\u00a0the thumb of your shooting hand to the magazine release and press it to drop the mag. If you can\u2019t reach it with that\u00a0thumb, use your support hand thumb. If you\u2019re left handed and you don\u2019t have an ambidextrous mag release, you can use the\u00a0middle finger or trigger finger of your left hand to drop the mag. Once that magazine is empty, it\u2019s useless. It is dead to you now, so let it drop to the ground. On the off chance the magazine does not drop free for some reason, use your support hand to rip it out and drop it. With most modern pistols, it should drop just fine.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While that\u2019s going on with your shooting hand, use your support hand to grab a fresh magazine. It will probably be in a pouch on your belt. It should be upside down with the bullets facing forward. You might have it stowed in the front of your belt at the 11 o&#8217;clock position, or it may be more to the side, or behind your hip. Wherever you keep it, orient the mag with the bullets pointing toward your belt buckle so you can grab the mag with your index finger along the front. You want the tip of your finger almost touching the top round in the mag. This is going to help you guide the magazine in. Bring the magazine toward the gun and look at the the open mag well as you guide the magazine in. Once the mag is partially inserted, use the palm of your hand to firmly seat\u00a0it in place.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep the support hand moving up to the slide. Use an overhand grip to grab the rear of the slide, push the gun forward with the firing hand and let go with the support hand to chamber a round. Now you just have to reacquire a two-hand grip and keep shooting, or if there is no more threat, go to a low ready and reassess the situation.<\/span><\/p> <h3><strong>Alternative: Using the Slide Release<\/strong><\/h3> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of different variations to those steps, but most techniques for the emergency reload will follow that basic pattern. I do want to address one alternative for chambering a round once you\u2019ve got that magazine in there. Instead of going overhand to rack the slide, you can also use your thumb to hit the slide release, also called the slide lock or slide stop on some pistols. You can shave a few tenths of a second off your reload time by doing it this way, but there are a few disadvantages.<\/span><\/p><p><\/p> <div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p> <noscript class=\"idle-load\"><div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"> <div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\"> <div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_4o5fq329vf dnt=1 seo=false videoFoam=true\" style=\"height:100%;position:relative;width:100%\">&nbsp;<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/noscript> <\/div> <h6><em>(click to pause\/play)<\/em><\/h6> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, the slide release is not in the same spot on every pistol and sometimes the lever can be very small or hard to activate. So, for example, if I were to train a lot with this Beretta, which has a slide release that\u2019s really big and easy to use, but then my everyday carry gun was a Smith &amp; Wesson Shield, which has a very small and stiff slide release, the muscle memory I\u2019ve developed here is not necessarily going to carry over. I might have a hard time doing that reload under stress with the smaller gun. Another issue is that when you use the slide release, you also run the risk of closing the slide before the magazine is completely seated. That means you won\u2019t actually have a round in the chamber, but you probably won\u2019t know that until you try to fire. So using the overhand rack method is a little slower, but it\u2019s more reliable and it\u2019ll work with any pistol out there.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, having said that, I think people get way too worked up over which method is better. I actually use the slide release most of the time because that\u2019s just how I learned to perform a reload years ago, and even when I\u2019ve tried to train myself to rack the slide instead, the second I run a drill on the timer or induce even the slightest bit of stress, I automatically revert back to hitting the slide release. So I\u2019ve just decided to embrace it because it works well for me, but it\u2019s not what I would recommend for everybody.<\/span><\/p> <h3><strong>Auto-Forward<\/strong><\/h3> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What you really <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">don\u2019t<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> want to do is ram the magazine in so hard that you trip the slide release without even touching it. Sometimes that\u2019s called auto-forward. This happens occasionally with some pistols, often\u00a0polymer framed guns and 1911s, and it is not a feature, it\u2019s a defect. It very frequently results in a closed slide with an empty chamber, and even when it doesn\u2019t, it\u2019s not a reliable enough technique to count on it working every time, because the gun is not designed to be relo<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aded that way. If you\u2019re really going for maximum speed, using the slide release is not any slower.<\/span><\/p> <div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p> <noscript class=\"idle-load\"><div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"> <div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\"> <div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_sw18u1wav8 dnt=1 seo=false videoFoam=true\" style=\"height:100%;position:relative;width:100%\">&nbsp;<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/noscript> <\/div> <h6><em>(click to pause)<\/em><\/h6> <h2><strong>Proactive Reload<\/strong><\/h2> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of an emergency reload, you may also need to perform a speed reload, or I prefer the term proactive reload. This one is used when you\u2019ve fired a few rounds and the gun is not empty but now there is no longer any immediate threat. The bad guy is down or he\u2019s run away, but there\u2019s always a chance for something else to happen. Maybe that guy who ran off is about to come running back with one of his buddies. It&#8217;s not likely, but it\u2019s possible, and if you have a spare magazine, it would be a good idea to top off that gun. So just like the emergency reload, you bring the gun in toward your chin, but instead of dropping the mag right away, wait until you\u00a0have\u00a0the fresh magazine right up next to the gun, and then make the switch so that there&#8217;s a minimum amount of time with no mag in the gun.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The odds of needing to reload are small, but it\u2019s not difficult to learn how to do properly just in case you are one of the unlucky few who has to use that skill for real.<\/span><\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reloading a pistol is simple &#8212; take out the empty magazine and stick in a fully loaded one. 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