WalkingWolf
Regular Member
I don't stick my appendages in places that have sharp corners, that could hurt. That is why God created pen lights, or bore lights. Not to be confused with a boring dimwit.:uhoh:
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Recommend adding the blue text to your list.
@Marshaul: I was trained to both look and to check with my little finger. Redundant perhaps, but, knock on wood, I've never had a ND while clearing one of my pistols.
My check is an equivalent level of redundancy to the pinkie method, because it assumes that the operator first performs a normal inspection of the chamber through the ejection port.
Actually, it's better. The pinkie test wouldn't have saved Brandon Lee's life, but my check would have.
It's different from the normal chamber inspection because you're looking down the bore, and if you can see the light source illuminating the rifling, you can be absolutely certain that the bore and the chamber are clear. Neither the pinkie check nor inspecting the chamber through the ejection port can accomplish this.
Doesn't work with all pistols, though.
I don't check the chamber visually or phisically, I just rack the slide stick my pinky in muzzle and dry fire...:banana: