Rear Sight: Claw Emergency Manipulation Sight

Here comes another important tip from the Personal Defense Network. One of the topics that comes up quite often when we talk about worst case scenario, firearms manipulation, is one-handed manipulation. The emergency manipulation of a firearm, that when you want it to go bang, only goes click and you only have one hand available, maybe because you're carrying someone, you're injured, you're fighting with someone and you need to do your tap and your rack without actually having your second hand to do that tapping and racking with. Well, the claw emergency manipulation site, is designed to make that manipulation as efficiently as possible. What we're looking at here, is the first rear site.

It's actually designed with a concave edge that gives you a leading edge that is designed to be a claw to hook onto your holster, your belt, your pocket edge or any other area that you're gonna slide along the top of the slide and hook onto. And when we were putting this site together, one of the important things to realize, is that some sites were very popular, actually designed in the exact opposite way, a wedge. And that wedge actually made it almost impossible to rack the slide efficiently on a holster. Which of course is the standard operating procedure for someone who's interested in clearing a malfunction. Getting a bad round out of the chamber, getting a good round into the chamber, when they only have one hand on the gun.

So if we take a look. I'm gonna go go ahead and use this firearm, which does not have any live rounds in it. We've got snap caps, dummy rounds here, inside of the gun. What we're looking at, is the opportunity to, after a click, come back against our body or holster and tap to make sure the magazine is seated and then turn the gun so that we are driving down against the top of our holster or even down in front of our body, to hook onto our belt and let that claw on our rear site, hit the edge of the holster, give us a good secure basis for racking. Getting the old round out and then releasing, getting the new round in.

Then of course we could orient and re-engage our threat. Again, with the claw, we don't necessarily need to have a good sturdy holster either. If we come out and click, come back and tap. If we were using a leather holster, an inside the waistband holster, we might be in a situation where we wanna hook onto our belt. We invert the firearm, keep it pointed away from us, down in front of us, drive down until we hook onto the belt.

And again, as soon as we make contact, rack, old round out, new round in. With the claw we can even get a good connection onto the edge of a pocket. If we take this magazine out, just so I don't get slide locked. Even if I ignore my belt and I go right down to my clothing, I'm gonna be able to drive down, hit the top of the pocket, again, rack, release, come back into the fight. One of the other things that could happen to us in the middle of a fight, is that we get caught in a double feed.

I'm gonna set that up. In a situation where we have a double feed, two rounds trying to get into the chamber at once. Our standard procedure, even with one-handed manipulations, is to lock the gun open to the rear. Now traditionally, with either a wedge site, where it's almost impossible and we end up being forced to use the breach face here, which could actually make the problem worse. Or even with a standard, pure vertical rear site.

It's sometimes difficult to get the leverage you need to be able to push back on the slide while pushing up on the slide lock lever and getting that slide locked. With the claw, it's that much easier. At this point, we hit the magazine release and if that doesn't come out, we can come right back down and strip. That's gonna open up the pressure that was on there from the slide pushing forward. Now again, we use the claw to clear, once, twice, maybe three times.

At this point we could go back to the holster, find a magazine, insert it, come up, once again, using that claw to rack and then re-engage. So the claw emergency manipulation site is now available for Glocks. It's gonna be available for several other defensive pistols. Consider it. It's got a 0.18 inch wide notch, which means it's gonna be a faster acquisition of the front site, regardless of which standard front site you use.

If you use one that's a little wider and a little easier to see. Or even one that's a little more narrow and gives you even more space inside of this notch, this is purely designed for defensive use. It's not a target shooting site. It's definitely a site designed to be used ruggedly. And in the worst case scenario, help you manage those emergency manipulations.

Be sure to check out the Personal Defense Network for more important tips, just like that one.