Ugly Stovepipe

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

This is a 3-handed job. (BY all means, keep that baby pointed downrange!) Didn't John Martz invent something for this? Anyway, a 1916 should have a relieved sear bar, which allows manipulation of the action while the safety is on.

Can be done with two hands. Learned how to do it to clear this type of jam while competing.

1 open the action the usual away.

2 use your right hand to keep the action open like on photo.

3 your left hand is now free. You can push the cartridge back into the magazine with your index and release the magazine with your thumb. You can now easily remove the spent cartridge from the chamber.

Once in a while I had this type of jam. Not because of stovepiping but because the extractor released the case early leaving it halfway out the chamber(it was ammo related).

First time it ocurred was in a match. I had to declare an alibi, that cost me 2 points penalty, in a 5 minute 5 shot string because I couldn't clear it alone.

When I got home I decided it wouldn't happen again. So I developed this method.

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[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by kurusu

Can be done with two hands. Learned how to do it to clear this type of jam while competing.

1 open the action the usual away.

2 use your right hand to keep the action open like on photo.

3 your left hand is now free. You can push the cartridge back into the magazine with your index and release the magazine with your thumb. You can now easily remove the spent cartridge from the chamber.

Once in a while I had this type of jam. Not because of stovepiping but because the extractor released the case early leaving it halfway out the chamber(it was ammo related).

First time it ocurred was in a match. I had to declare an alibi, that cost me 2 points penalty, in a 5 minute 5 shot string because I couldn't clear it alone.

When I got home I decided it wouldn't happen again. So I developed this method.

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Yes, that works well- as long as the "jam" can be moved with a finger. I carry a wooden dowel with a flattened end as sometimes it takes a little more persuasion than my finger.

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Yes, that works well- as long as the "jam" can be moved with a finger. I carry a wooden dowel with a flattened end as sometimes it takes a little more persuasion than my finger.

Great idea, Don! When the jam happens that way, the mag usually doesn't drop out because the partially displaced round sort of locks it in. Sometimes I've used the finger method if the round isn't that far out. Your dowel/spade is the perfect way to use only two hands, and still avoid a blood blister if something slips and the action decides to "bite." The later model Erma toggle pistols are quite talented at the latter, as well.

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Yes, that works well- as long as the "jam" can be moved with a finger. I carry a wooden dowel with a flattened end as sometimes it takes a little more persuasion than my finger.

I got very persuasive fingers.

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by kurusu

I got very persuasive fingers.

Helps if they are "skinny" enough to get down in the receiver.