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Jeremae wrote:Ok I'm a little confused but will give my advice anyway...

A press check is done to insure there is a round in the chamber, the round should not be ejected. It is good practice to include a magazine check at the same time (after putting slide back into battery and safeing pistol) by dropping the magazine and checking that it is full etc and then reseating it properly.

ReLoading a cleared gun is where topping off the mag comes into play.

if you can easily and safely reholster your gun with one hand, these steps allow you to minimize danger during reload.

While pointing gun in safe direction and keeping finger out of trigger guard

1. Insert full magazine into magwell and cycle action to strip off first round.
2. Engage safety (if gun equipped)
3. Drop magazine into support hand.
4. Holster gun
5. Add round to magazine
6. Insert magazine into holstered gun making sure to properly seat it.

NcN I think you may be thinking about the IDPA safety speach

Actually, it was Draw, Move, and Shoot. Your described procedure is essentially what I was describing, with pulling the mag moved up to before holstering, which is easier anyway.

Gun is always pointed in a safe direction, and finger is never on the trigger unless I'm shooting something or have a verified clear and am doing dry-fire practice.

Lucky45 wrote:My routine is to eject the mag and chambered round, then change to back up mag and pull slide, thus chambering a new round. That way I never forget because I keep a habit of changing magazines.

I been doing something similar. I pull the mag and eject the chambered round and slide lock it and make sure it's clear. My primary mag is a 14-rounder, and the backup mag carries 13 rounds, so like to keep the primary in so I have 15 rounds in the gun whenever I carry. I do plan on getting some 15-round Mec-Gar mags in the near future that would eliminate the difference between mags and simplify the process to something similar to Lucky45's procedure. What I've been doing is putting the primary mag back in, chambering a round, putting the safety on, pulling the mag and setting the gun down on a safe surface pointed in a safe direction, then reloading the ejected round into the mag and re-inserting the mag and holstering.

After getting some useful instruction on safe handling and reloading this past weekend at Forum Day, I am considering changing my routine a bit. Instead of setting the gun down after chambering the first round and ejecting the mag, it seems more prudent to holster immediately after chambering and then pulling the mag from a holstered position and reloading the top round from there, then re-inserting it while still holstered. This limits handling a little more.

The only drawback I see to this is that this would only work when using a holster, and would not be the same as when checking from a bedside position or something similar. It also wouldn't work as well when in a vehicle after returning from somewhere I couldn't carry. I'm also not sure if it would be wise to have 2 different routines.

Any suggestions or modifications?