[TML] NY Reload

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 3/1/08 2:08 AM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Rycharde, Rex Lancaster
> <rik_packham at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> action 1: pull empty magazine,
>>  action 2: get new mag
>>  action 3: insert mag
>> 
>>  action 1: draw new weapon
>> 
>>  think i'll go for the new weapon
>> 
>>  --- Richard Aiken <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Don't know about your guns but mine has a button that shoots the old
> clip out, so step one is not much of a step. And draw new weapon? What
> about the old one? Just dropping it? That could get expensive. Re
> holster it, more time or shoot left handed??

Actually, thinking ergonomically, it's more like:

Action 1 right: push button to drop mag
Action 1 left: reach to where new magazine is
Action 2: bring new mag up and insert

Vs.

Action 1: reach for new gun while dropping old
Action 2: bring new gun up

Seems the time would be about the same.

One loses a magazine, the other loses a gun.  Assuming you walk/run away
from the scene without being able to retrieve.  Of course, if the gun is on
a lanyard, no problem.

But honestly, if you use something like that one in Lethal Weapon, with 15
rounds, and you run out, I doubt quibbling over this issue is going to help
anyway!