Tiger McKee believes that practicing a malfunction/stoppage response must be done enough so that “getting the weapon running again, must be immediate.”
For example, when you press the trigger in real life – live fire practice and especially during a confrontation – and you get a click instead of a bang it means you have a malfunction. The response to this, clearing the stoppage and getting the weapon running again, must be immediate. In a fight time is a precious commodity. There is no time to stop, think or assess the problem and then correct it.
– Tiger McKee
In videos discussing his approach on “advanced skills”, Pincus states today’s guns are so reliable that skills required to clear malfunctions are among these and do not need to be emphasized or practiced regularly. He goes on to say that if one’s gun malfunctions, one should simply change the gun.
Malfunctions are not a fundamental defensive shooting skill…. Clearing a malfunction is an ‘advanced skill’.”
– Rob Pincus
Once again, two popular defensive shooting instructors (neither one with actual fight experience) have completely opposite approaches on a defensive shooting issue.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
– Donald R. Gannon
Firearm User Network 
Mar 21, 2016 @ 15:35:19
Practicing for the possibility of a weapon mechanically failing is a necessary component of a well-rounded firearms training program. Call it what you will, basic, intermediate, or advanced training, knowing how to fix your gun when it stops work at the most inopportune time is essential to the maintenance of one’s physical integrity in a fight. Even the best-made guns will fail at some point.
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Mar 21, 2016 @ 15:38:28
I agree. My point was that people claiming to offer the “proper” solution can’t agree what that solution is.
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Mar 21, 2016 @ 23:59:33
Tiger was in my Cooper General Rifle class back in ’99. I beat him on the paper target shoot but he just edged me out for first place on the steel man-against-man shoot-off. He’s a good guy who knows his stuff.
Interesting how Pincus separates the “manipulation” from the “shooting”. Cooper took the same outlook, “marksmanship” and “gunhandling” being two separate legs of the three-legged stool of his Modern Technique (the third being mindset).
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Mar 22, 2016 @ 05:54:29
I’m just pointing out that there’s differing opinions and approaches among name instructors. What is “correct” sometimes varies.
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