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So you want an accurate pistol.  If you’re going to own a pistol, why not own the one that is most accurate, right? Money is not going to buy you tighter groups, only training. With so many brands to choose from (Smith & Wesson, Colt, Beretta, Ruger, GLOCK etc…) and types (semi-automatic, single-action or double-action revolver, etc), how can we know which one is the most accurate?  Tom Clarke and Lenny Bolton reply to this question through video. 

Here is the good news: Most handguns are more accurate than the shooter!  People whom research the factory specs of a handgun need to remember the conditions under which they may be using their firearm are varied and unpredictable.  The human factor is the key to accuracy.  We, the shooters, are the ones who cause the firearm to be less accurate.

Other reasons for the firearm to be less accurate may involve the choice of ammunition used, the smoothness of the trigger, and the sight radius.  The ammo, trigger control and sight radius all affect the management of the pistol, particularly in regards to handling the firearm, controlling recoil, and completing follow through after sending the bullet downrange.  All of this is the responsibility of the shooter, not the firearm.  There are many programs available on ATAC TV to assist with choosing a firearm to fit your personal preference. 

Handguns are normally used in close range encounters as opposed to long distances.  It is considered a defensive firearm and it is concealable.  Yes, some handguns are naturally easier to shoot than others.  You must understand the capabilities of your skill level.  You’ll want to watch the video on ATAC TV™ to hear what Tom Clarke™ has to say about an unknown shooter down range who was shooting an obnoxiously loud handgun during this filming.  Basically you can buy an expensive firearm, but only an accurate shooter can make an accurate handgun! 

You can do the research and you can spend the money, but a handgun cannot operate without a shooter.  How good can a handgun be without a good shooter behind it?  You have to put the time into training your basic marksmanship skills.  You can take any firearm, and if you put the time and training into becoming proficient with it, you will have an accurate pistol.  And remember training with a firearm should involve Dry Practice, and lots of it!.  So watch some of the free dry practice programs on ATAC TV and get better training for yourself.  Increase YOUR skills and almost any handgun becomes the accurate firearm for you.

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ATAC TV™  Firearms Channel Viewer Q & A: What is the Most Reliable Handgun?

Tom Clarke™ and Lenny Bolton with ATAC TV™ Firearms Channel discuss the reliability of most modern handgun platforms.

ATAC TV™ Firearm Reply and Answer:

Tom Clarke™ and Lenny Bolton with ATAC TV™ Firearms Channel discuss the reliability of most modern handgun platforms.  ATAC TV Staff considers reliability the most important aspect of any firearm under any type of conditions.  Most handguns are very accurate and most are reliable in range type environments.  Reliability comes from the continued functioning of the handgun under the most extreme conditions to be worth having and owning, especially in a tactical situation.

The list of modern handguns is huge, but to name a few such as GLOCK, H&K, Springfield, Sigarms, S&W, Wilson, Kimber, etc, that are mostly reliable, well-built and rugged firearm platforms that will perform if handled in the proper manner.  This includes complete maintenance and care as recommended by the manufacturer.  Field and detailed cleaning of the weapon are a “must” with inspection of the wear parts to maintain the reliability functions.  Many handguns require additional maintenance over other brands to continue to function reliably.  This is something you need to determine when purchasing and/or deciding which firearms are right for you and your intended purpose.

If you plan to replace parts of your handgun with the latest modification products, the reliability factor of your stock pistol will drop like a rock.  Not all aftermarket parts are bad, but some products seem to be the “Answer to a non-existent problem.  Products of this nature are garbage, a waste of money and have no place on a reliable firearm. This firearm, if used tactically, is a tool.  Anything that distracts from that basic function should be avoided.  Your handgun should go “bang” each and every time you press the trigger.  If not, either you have added parts to distract from the intended purpose or you own a handgun that would not be functional enough to bet your life on.  You must choose what the intended use of this handgun is for in which environment and working situation to be encountered.  This is how you should select the correct handgun for your needs based on what you are going to use it for.

Watch the video linked below of Tom Clarke and Lenny Bolton as they discuss reliability with handguns and add more detail to help you make the choice for what best suits your need.

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H&K USC Muzzle Up Presentation Video

ATAC TV™ Firearms Channel Tom Clarke & Mark Flinn teaching the H&K USC rifle from the Muzzle Up ready position. 

Carrying a rifle in the Muzzle Up position with the butt stock trapped under the bicep and tucked securely into the armpit will be effective in situations that requires a heightened level of readiness while still maintaining a view of possible threats.  As Tom Clarke & Mark Flinn demo in the video, your eyes are aligned with the muzzle through to the target. This will make response to any threat a quick and fast presentation.  The Muzzle Up position, or “high ready position”, may be easier to maintain over a longer period of time versus being in the “ready position” with the muzzle pointed down.  Always keep your trigger finger straight alongside the rifle until you are ready to shoot!

Once you have established your target, present the USC carbine by pushing the rifle straight out in front of you toward the target and then pulling the stock back into the shoulder pocket while moving the selector switch from SAFE to FIRE.  Establish your butt stock and check weld, mount the trigger, and you’re ready to shoot.

As you are moving into the firing position, push the H&K USC outward from the muzzle up position, make sure you are pushing it straight out to the target.  Remain in control of your rifle by pushing it straight out, then back in.  The reason for initially pushing the rifle outward is to clear any gear or clothing from the rifle so nothing is getting caught up and inhibiting your ability to accurately shoot and control your weapon.   If you are using a sling with your rifle, a one-point arrangement is less binding than a two-point.  If you are in a two-point, you will need to come out of the sling in order to allow enough space to push the rifle outward. 

This Muzzle Up demonstration is specific to the H&K USC Carbine. Whatever firearms platform you use, make sure you train and practice with the equipment you plan to use. It is beneficial to practice varying methods of carrying a firearm because different situations will dictate how you are going to have to carry depending on threat levels.  Check out all the different programs on ATAC TV and practice each of them, both with live practice and, of course, DRY PRACTICE! 

Tom Clarke & Mark Flinn show you how to present the firearm and shoot from the Muzzle Up position in the attached video. 

Watch the Video Now:  ATAC TV™ HK USC Muzzle Up Presentation Video

AtacTv.com Firearm Channel is a source for Raw, Unscripted Firearm Training. 

Start with unloading your handgun and to remove all ammo from the magazine and your pockets, we are going to do this dry. Even performing this without ammo, you must follow all the safety rules. Strating from the holster. (Where ever you carry it) These are the basic steps of the Presentation.  If you need to SEE the steps, go to ATAC Firearms channel and view the 1911 or Glock Presentation, Grip and Stance, and / or Sequence of Shooting Programs. Doesn’t matter which handgun; the steps are basic to all. 

(DRY PRACTICE DRILLS SHOULD BE AT ¼ TO ½ YOUR NORMAL PRESENTATION SPEED!)

• STEP 1 Eyes on TARGET, establish a firing grip on the handgun while in the holster, at the same time move support hand up to mid-line tight to your body as you focus on your target.
  

• STEP 2 Handgun is drawn straight up, trigger finger is straight along the frame, (not on the trigger) as elbow drops down, rotating the muzzle toward target, anchor the butt of the handgun in a rib near your pectoral muscle, support hand in mid line of chest tight to your body. Bring the gun as high as you can and is still comfortable for you. Eyes are still on target. (This could be a shooting position, if needed, more on this in the advanced programs)
  

• STEP 3 As Handgun is raised up toward your line of sight, support hand mates with firing hand, safety goes off if you have one, Handgun is raised higher into your line of sight, and pushing out toward target, trigger finger (firing hand index finger, if you haven’t figured this out yet?) starts to enter the trigger guard and the center of the first pad your index finger is placed in the center of the trigger and pulls the slack (free play of trigger) out. Now shift your focus from the target to the top of the front sight post AS the  sights are brought on target.. This is one of the biggest faults many shooters do not practice and their ability can only go so high.  Most often you cannot diagnose what is going wrong.  You MUST practice shifting the focus from the target to the top of the front sight post. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP!  Shift your focus to the front sight and STAY on the front sight post! DO NOT SHIFT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TARGET AND FRONT SIGHT!
  

• STEP 4 HANDGUN COMES TO REST AT FULL EXTENSION, Focus has moved from the target to your sights, front sight level with the rear sight with equal light passing on the right and left sides of the front sight post, (aligning your sights and eye focus SHOULD be happening between Step 3 and 4) closing your non-dominate eye and establish 100% focus on that front sight post.  You are ready to shoot!

At this stage, start your trigger press until the trigger “breaks”. (It should surprise you) With 100% focus on the FS post, it should NOT move when trigger breaks! Trap the trigger to the rear, simulating a “reset” while focusing on the front sight (follow-through) trigger finger goes straight along the frame, lower the handgun to about 45* as if following your target to the ground, and perform appropriate After-Action-Responses.

• Handgun is in the ready position (In both hands, pointed low, about 45* angle) RESET your trigger by racking the slide and releasing it.
  
• Return to holster in the reverse order, from the ready position, move through STEP 3 to STEP 2, and PAUSE.  Look around to make sure you are ready to re-holster. The muzzle should be point straight out, down range towards your target.
  

• Move from STEP 2 to STEP 1 (re-holster carefully)

DO AS MANY REPETITIONS THAT YOU CAN WHILE REMAINING 100% FOCUSED ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING. IF NOT, STOP! Dry Practice only when you can focus 100% on the exercise and stop when interrupted or tired. Do not ingrain bad habits by getting SLOPPY. Do it perfectly on each reputation to ingrain it into muscle memory.  It will PAY huge dividends in your skill level.

Next is adding movement, see you after a few thousand dry presentations. and a thousand live rounds for validation.  Example, dry practice 30 presentations 5 days week, the shoot 50 rounds. Immediately after the 30-5o rounds end it with 30 more dry presentations. Rest 7th day. Start all over the next week. After 5 months of this, then move onto the advanced programs.  If you want to learn faster do more sooner.  Do two- a days, 30 in the am and 30 in the pm and 60-100 rounds on the 6th day. The in 2.5 months you will be ready to move on.

* REMEMBER, it is OK to cheat in a fight, we actually applaud you for it.  But NEVER cheat yourself in training or practice. DRY PRACTICE IS THE SKILL BUILDER!

Learn HOW to do these drill

ALL SAFETY RULES APPLY! These drills should be performed at the RANGE or an appropriate area, do it dry, with an UNLOADED FIREARM!

Always abide by the four rules of gun safety:

1.      All guns are loaded. (Treated as such)

2.      Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.

3.      Finger off the trigger, out of the trigger guard until sights are on target.

4.      Be sure of your target and foreground/background

Let’s talk about Presentation from the holster and doing it as a Dry Practice exercise with 1 EYE OPEN.  What the heck is this? This is the BASIC presentation, to get your handgun from the holster to “sights” on target, AND YOU CLOSE THE NON-DOMINATE EYE to get the 100% focus on the front sight!  OK, this technique IS required to guarantee that “LONG” shot or a close precision hit like a hostage takers eye socket, or just shoot a nice tight group.

You must learn that situations dictate the amount of precision sighting required for a hit, is measured in distance and target size.  More about this subject in the 2 EYE OPEN blog and the advanced Dry Practice Programs that will teach you the difference between shooting 3 feet OR 15 yards, as an example,  3’  -   2 eyes,   15yds   -   1 eye open. You need to learn the 1-EYE OPEN method first, then move on to more advanced techniques.

Everyone at ATAC Training courses trains with semi-auto pistols, but the firearms are carried in variety of locations. It does not matter what type or brand of handgun you run, but you are ABSOLUTLLY NUTS if you don’t Dry Practice with it from the location you carry it!  THIS IS THE DRILL THAT MUST BE REPEATED OVER AND OVER UNTIL THE PRESENTATION BECOMES A REFLEX ACTION!  THIS MIGHT SEEM BORING, BUT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT HIGHER SKILL LEVELS.

Understanding know and unknown distances prior to starting:

Start with establishing a known distance.  As you begin, or if you think you have judging distances mastered, that doesn't mean you DON’T NEED to practice the basics.   Judging unknown distances is a stand-alone exercise.  On the other hand, we will give you two methods.  There are all types of controversy out there on one or both eyes open when shooting.  Lets keep it simple; if you were going to push a thread through a needle you would shut one eye.  Yes, we shoot with both eyes open and the conditions and distances will dictate using a dominant eye only or both eyes open.  Lets move forward and give you a simple solution.  From 7 yards and in you can get away with hitting "close enough" to your intended point of impact.  But, it will only be close to rather than the exact intended point of impact.  (As you read further down, between steps 3 - 4 you need to learn to shift your focus.) For those of you that think you only need to shoot with both eyes open, here is a question for you.  If you were held by the neck as a hostage and the hostage taker only exposed one eye every few seconds. Would you tell the cop, SWAT, or XXXX to, "use both eyes, it is faster, just shoot it is not a precision shot". I doubt it, your exposed to all types of errors which could be fatal.  The point is, at any distance you need to guarantee the hit, not hope for the hit.  Yes, you may think this is advanced; no it is the basic fundamentals. This is not an range drill trying to hit a big steel plate; you are trying to ht a quarter over and over.  Then be able to pick up the pace.  As you excel in your skills, you need to ALWAYS give yourself a refresher course on distancing while shifting your focus from the target to the top of the front sight post.  After time you will develop a natural point of aim, which will ONLY last as long as your continuing education does.  So lets dry practice at 7 yards with one eye for now.  You can go to the next stage of both eyes open after you have performed at least 1,000- 2,000 dry presentations.  In our advanced programs we explain in great detail with video of what happens as you back up and forget to close that eye.  It a tactical environment, you may have to keep both eyes open to have a wider field of view.  But before you go off and start point shooting, get the basics down.  It is a safe number to say if you have 10,000 rounds through your pistol and 2 - 3 times as much dry practice, then you can move on to more advanced tactics with both eyes open.  In the end, regardless of how much you have trained just remember, if it is a precision shot, use your dominant eye only!  You may only get that one shot.

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The 2012 ATAC TV Law Enforcement / Military Range Day.

The ATAC TV LEO/Mil Channel is hosting the range day event again. LaRue Tactical is this years Sponsor.  A private day at the range that is restricted to Law Enforcement and Military ONLY.  Sign up here on ATAC TV LEO/Military Channel to try out some of the latest firearms, ammunition, optics and related products and services.

ATAC TV Range Day is January 16, 2012

• LaRue's BBQ will be onsite again, for those who attended last years event, the BBQ is worth coming just for the FREE food and beverages throughout the day.
• Range Bays for exhibitors to display their products and demonstrate to the attendees what's new with their company.  Get to know your dealers first hand with some quality range time.
• There are a limited number of bays and many are have been reserved, so please be sure to get a range bay for your company by signing up today. Exhibitors are responsible for setting up and displaying their press material on their private bay.
• Starting at 10:00am - 4:00pm
• Must be pre-registered and bring your printed papers to the gate.
  

Note: Vendors will be able to set up on Sunday 15th at 10:00 - 4:00.  We understand many vendors will also be setting up for the convention.  If your company needs or has a special request please contact us at Leomil@atactv.com   We will do everything we can to guide you through and assist in the range set up.  The property is does have 24hr security, but is not responsible for your products and/or materials. NO firearms are permitted to be stored overnight.

We look forward to another great Range Day.

ATAC TV LEO/Military & LaRue Tactical

For more information Contact Us: Leomil@atactv.com

Special Note: ID's will be checked. It is a crime to falsely impersonate a Police Officer, a Federal Officer or employee, or past, present or current Military Personnel, or any other public official.  We will prosecute any attempt to purchase an event ticket to the fullest extent of the law.

Before diving into more advanced tactical drills with the H&K USC Carbine, it is beneficial to first become comfortable with a default grip and stance.  Tom Clarke and Mark Flinn with ATAC TV Firearms Channel not only illustrate the proper grip and stance with the H&K USC skeleton stock, they also discuss the advantages of skill-building from a proper default positioning as you progress in your training.

Beginning with proper grip, Tom Clarke discusses the difference between the firing hand and the support (other) hand while Mark Flinn provides demonstration.  One of the benefits to this H&K USC civilian utility carbine is the ambidextrous safety and selector switch, which allows the shooter to use this function in whichever way, is most comfortable.  Using this function with the open skeletonized butt stock and thumbhole may require some getting used to through continued training.

The program point out how the H&K USC stance differs from the H&K UMP full-auto stance, which requires the shooter to be more squared-up for control recoil.  The H&K USC is a .45 ACP cartridge, which won’t “bump you around much”.  While there is not a “perfect” stance, it is still important to find a good basic default stance.  A great default recommend is standing with your feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent, and the firing-side foot slightly behind the lead foot at a 20 - 40 degree angle.  Find a strong stable defensive stance and maintain a good shooting posture with the waist pulled in and spine straight. 

As the shooter points in on their target, the selector switch is moved to “fire”.  Once on target, the center of the pad of his trigger finger is on the trigger.  (Centering the first pad of the index finger on the trigger allows for much better trigger control.)  Tom discusses placing the support hand on the magazine weld or the hand-stop depending on physical limitations, comfort, or the location and elevation of the target.  Watch a default stance with elbows pulled in tight, a nice check weld, and the toe of the butt stock pulled tightly into the shoulder pocket. 

ATAC's Tom Clarke and Mark Flinn emphasize practicing the basic fundamentals of a default grip and stance to fit your abilities with the H&K USC.  Because a real life situation will not likely occur on a perfectly flat range with little variation, an established default stance provides the ability to maintain upper body stabilization while the lower body may be moving.  With practice, your default stance will eventually adapt to your environment. 

Watch Now:  Your Grip and Stance with the H&K USC Carbine

ATAC TV Staff spends time training techniques including firearms, edge weapons, empty hand, physical conditioning, tactics and many others to maintain and increase our personal skill sets.  A lot of time is spent in dry practice and life fire with assorted weapons platforms.  This is how you build proper skill sets to effectively use the skill set when needed.  Ever thought about visualization in your mind’s eye as a training technique? Visualization is a valuable tool and includes it in our additional training and development.

Visualization of techniques and skills you have learned on the shooting range, for example, can be reviewed in your mind and ultimately reinforce the mental and physical skills developed through dry practice and live shooting with firearms.  Sound like something crazy?  Not really, people use their built-in visualization process all the time.  As an example, you lost your phone and can’t find it.  Finally you stop and think about when was the last time you had the phone in your hand.  A mental picture develops in your mind and you see yourself setting the cell phone down on the nightstand while you were grabbing needed items out of the nightstand drawer.  This is and example of visualization and anyone can do it.  Everyone has this ability, as you are hard-wired with the capability at birth and is built into your neurology.  Most people use their visualization skills unconsciously, without paying any attention to how they do it, or to the quality of the pictures they create in their head.  It can be used as a continued learning skill to reinforce skills you already developed by practicing and imagining them in your mind. Guess what?  It works!

Visualization and the neurology associated with it are important components of memory.  Visual memory is especially important in the retention of skills associated with tasks involving hand-eye coordination like shooting firearms.  Many experiments conducted by neurologists, where various parts of the brain were electrically stimulated under controlled conditions, as well as sessions of deep hypnosis targeting a persons visual recall, have determined the visual memory is essentially perfect.  In other words, perfect recall of that skill.  Now you know why some people can recall everything they ever did.  Most people have less clarity in their conscious memory for a reason.  The distortion and deletion of some of our visual memory in conscious recall is a function of the brain to eliminate data overload.  Your eyes and body amass an huge amount of data every second. The brain must put order to an overwhelming amount of information causing some of the data to become distorted, such as certain memory of crimes and/or automobile accidents when the information intake is enormous.  This is the reason three people witnessing the same event have entirely different stories about what happened.  Our preconscious internal filter activates and sorts information according to what we believe our priorities are at that moment, which might not be what we actually want to happen.  We are all different individuals.

You might hear other people saying things like “running it through my head”, or “seeing myself doing the deed” and “see it my mind’s eye”.  This is descriptive language that tells us they are visualizing the act of performing a certain skill learned in the past.  Anyone that uses visualization skills will enhance their particular performance in any sport or skill.  Most people that are good at what they do use this technique, some without knowing they are doing it.  Now imagine utilizing this ability to enhance your shooting skill by practicing “in your mind” during those times it is not possible to dry practice or go to the range.

So, lets apply this visualization skill to shooting a handgun.  In your mind, visualize a target; you present your Glock out of its holster and point into the threat or target.  In your mind you see the front and rear sights aligning on center mass and the front sight snaps into focus.  You press the trigger and get a surprise break as the bullet impacts the target.  This represents a cycle of dry practice without physical movement, but has reinforced your mental skills, which translates to your physical skills too. 

In a training program for shooting, visualization can be used in addition to a developed range program to generate quantum leaps and bounds in performance of an individual by utilizing these simple techniques.

• While actively training the skill on the range using visualization will increase and amplify the visual-kinesthetic memory associated with the skill set.  Simple go back and forth between mental and physical techniques
• Visualization used other times and locations, when not on the range will increase the retention of the skill set.
• If you have a specific task, prior visualization will reinforce the skill set and reduce reaction time during the actual task while reducing the stress level.
• Creating a perfect sight picture of the front/rear sight on your firearm in vivid color will remind you what perfect sight alignment should look like when firing.Imagine a scenario requiring you to present your firearm, align the sights and generating the perfect surprise break from the trigger press.  This image should be the solution to the issue as you have successfully hit the target where you aimed, in your mind’s eye.

The key to visualization is to actually see the fine details and take notice of them in your memory.  You see the action in your mind’s eye; try to feel what is happening with your body in the picture you have created.  It will add more value to the mind’s image of the skill set.  The mind can recreate the actions if you train yourself to remember each detail.

A good way to start a training program to utilize this technique is to mimic your established dry practice program.  The more you do this, the better shooter you will become.  The techniques are easy to learn and apply to almost any situation or skill.  As long as your eyesight is good, have imagination and the willingness to experiment training your brain, it will help you perform to an entirely new level of skill.  And, it costs you nothing, but the performance gain is priceless

The H&K USC is a light (6 lbs), fast handling, rugged, reliable carbine. H&K imported this firearm with a United States “legal” 16” barrel.  Tom Clarke and Mark Flinn with ATAC TV Firearms Channel spent considerable time training and evaluating this carbine chambered in .45 ACP. 

Loading & Unloading the USC carbine is straight forward process as with most magazine fed platforms, with a couple of “weapon specific” procedures.

Loading the H&K USC .45 Carbine

• Chamber check to be sure of the condition of the firearm.
• Verify that the firearm Safety lever is on “Safe”.
• Lock the cocking lever to the rear, into the notch of the frame.
• Insert loaded Magazine into the magazine well.
• “Slap” the cocking lever and allow it to move forward under spring tension.
• Firearms in now loaded, but, need to chamber check the condition of firearm.
• Remove magazine, ease cocking lever back to visually check for cartridge held in place by the extractor.  Insert finger to “low light” check and verify, then close bolt. Use thumb on bolt “forward assist” if needed.
• Reinsert magazine.
• This carbine is now loaded.

To Unload:

• Remove magazine, and store in pocket.
• Pull back on cocking lever and lock into notch on frame.
• Cartridge in chamber should have been ejected out of carbine.
• Chamber check visually and manually with your finger that the chamber is empty. No magazine in weapon, no cartridge in chamber.
• Firearms is now Unloaded. 

Simple procedures, but must be performed in this order.  You must know the condition of the firearm at all times.  Watch the video linked below for a complete demonstration of this procedure. Tom Clarke and Mark Flinn will walk you through the proper loading and unloading of the H&K USC Carbine.  Watch and learn!

Watch Video Now: H&K USC Loading Program  

AtacTv.com Firearms Channel, Raw, Unscripted Firearm Training and Product Reviews. 

ATAC TV Firearms Channel demonstrates the possible malfunctions of the H&K USC Carbine.  Knowing the cycle of operation and the configuration of the firearm will help understand how the gun functions, and indicating how it will malfunction. 

The H&K USC is a very reliable blowback system with a very large ejection port.  Big ejection ports are a good thing and allow the extracted brass plenty of room to eject out of the firearm.  There is a down side to the configuration of the carbine.  The barrel or chamber of the carbine is recessed forward of the ejection port by about an inch.  Also there is space between the barrel ring and the inside of the firearm port large enough to trap extracted brass if it is not ejected.  The bolt continues to cycle, stripping a new cartridge out of the magazine and into the chamber, while ramming the spent brass into this recess.  Here it is, Failure to Eject!

Tom and Mark spent considerable time inducing malfunctions with the USC carbine in many different scenarios.  This is the only malfunction other than Fail to Fire that the carbine tends to create.  This is a real problem to clear the malfunction and get the firearm running again.  As Tom suggests, this would be a great time to transition to a back up weapon system and run for cover.

The clearance for this type of malfunction involve removing the magazine, locking the bolt back with the bolt stop lever and digging the brass out of the port with your fingers and /or some type of tool.  When the empty brass lands just right inside the port, the bolt slams the brass into the recess and makes it really hard to pry the deformed casing out of that area.  It turns into the “luck of the draw” where the brass might fall out, or must be pried out with a tool.  This may be something that will take time and tools to fix.

The H&K USC Carbine is a great shooting, light-handling firearm with plenty of punch.  The ATAC guys have fired a lot of ammunition through these guns and did not experience any malfunctions other then the ones produced by the staff on purpose.  Even when extremely dirty, the firearm performs flawlessly.  If you know your firearm, you will find any limitations that may affect the performance of that particular weapon system.  Again, training is the key to understanding you’re your performance with any firearm.  Watch Tom Clarke and Mark Flinn explain the details of the H&K USC Carbine in the video linked below. Keep training!

Watch Video Now:  H&K USC Carbine Failure to Extract or Eject Program