Reloading & malfunction drills

[David]

I would imagine that many if not most of us have temporarily limited our shooting while ammo is scarce and prices are out of control. I would imagine even if you reload your maybe not burning through rounds just for grins. With that in mind, this seems like a good time to concentrate on skills such as reloading (magazine changes) and malfunction drills. So that brings up the questions; do you practice reloading skills and malfunction drills? If so, how often? If you compete the quick or tactical reloads are likely a part of the skills you put into practice, but anything with malfunction drills?

Do you ever train for these skills with the support hand or one-handed?

[Bob]

I did one today. Whenever I have an "oopsie" at the range I rack tap bang, swap out etc.

[tom mac]

On my 9mm 226, every now and then at the indoor range I'll throw a bunch of 380s in the bag ( to load mags ),...

Good practice for the malfunction drills like I was taught in the day.

[Ronin.45]

I don't practice, but I have reloaded thousands of times in competition. It's pure muscle memory at this point.
The best malfunction training I ever got was buying 10,000rds of Freedom Munitions 9mm. It had about 2-3% failure rate. I got pretty fast at tap-racks that year.

[tom mac]

remind me not to buy that ammo... IMO that's pretty high failure rate ( unless practice only AND cheap )

[Ronin.45]

remind me not to buy that ammo... IMO that's pretty high failure rate ( unless practice only AND cheap )

I believe they are pretty much out of business now. It's an extremely high failure rate for centerfire ammo. We eventually figured out that they weren't seating primers consistently. It wasn't noticeable, but they would get a light strike on the first hit. Just had quality control.