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I posted this on another forum. I thought that someone here might get a kick out of it....
This morning I went to take a class to get my Texas CHL. I took my favorite gun. My gun that has NEVER had any malfunction of any kind. I am speaking of my Colt XSE. Since it has never had a malfunction of any kind, OF COURSE it would malfunction today. I was shooting a 3 shot sequence and the last round stove-piped. I have had this happen on other guns so I figure, no big deal, I’ll just clear it and lose that last shot, which would mean a 5 point deduction. Yeah right. The slide was completely locked up. I had to fight to get the magazine to come out, then began to feverishly try to rack the slide to clear out the misfed round. Meanwhile, the instructor is telling the group to load 4 more rounds and prepare to fire. If I can’t get the gun unjammed, I am going to fail the proficiency part of the course. As I am tugging as hard as I can on the slide, I realize that somehow the slide stop has come partway out. I shove it back in, and as quick as I can pop 2 rounds in the mag, slap it in and rack my slide. I was able to only get off 1 shot before the timer was up on that sequence. End result, I had to forfeit the original stove piped round, and 3 from that firing sequence. This cost me a total of 20 points. Fortunately, I only lost 3 other points and ended up with one of the better scores in the class. It did take me a few minutes to quit being so agitated about the slide stop. Its my fault, though. I cleaned it last night and probably didn’t quite have it pushed all the way in.
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