In Episode #5 of “The Journey,” I train with Subject Matter Expert, Jason Redding. Jason is the Owner & Director of Training for Stealth Shooting.
Jason is a former Team Sergeant for a full-time SWAT Team with a large municipal police department and a veteran U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant who served as a Team Leader with the Military Police Special Reaction Teams.
He has over 25 years of honorable service with both the law enforcement and military communities.
Watch Episode #5
In Episode #5 of “The Journey”, I train with Jason for the first time.
We started out with Jason running me through pistol and carbine rifle drills to assess my skills and determine what areas we could work on during our session.
I hardly practice clearing rifle and carbine malfunctions, so we decided to focus our session on dealing with the various malfunctions one might encounter.
Common Carbine AR-15 Malfunctions
In Episode #5, we focus on the following common malfunctions:
- Immediate Action a.k.a. Tap, Rack, Bang
- Double Feed
- Bolt Override
Episode #5 is perfect for anyone who doesn’t know how to deal with carbine rifle malfunctions or anyone who doesn’t practice them much.
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Malfunctions occur in error of three classes.
Class One: Failure to Feed
Class Two: Failure to Extract
Class Three: Failure to Eject
The remedy is usually the same.
Drop the mag. Briskly cycle the action at least three times. Engage a fresh mag and get back in the fight.
You’re carrying a pistol. Why not transition to what is working, end threat or suppress threat to buy your way to cover, them out rack/in rack to get rifle back in play?
The focus of the episode is dealing with malfunctions versus transitions.
Myles, excellent episode covering m-4 carbine malfunctions. In my opinion Jason explained and demonstrated how to recover from the different types of malfunctions and how to get the gun back fight couldn’t of been scripted any better. Great video!
Glad you liked the episode! Jason definitely knows his stuff and is a great guy. Nothing was scripted–all first takes!