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 going to 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 going to 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 sight 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 or an inside-the-waistband holster, we might be in a situation where we want to 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 the 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 lock. Even if I ignore my belt and I go right down to my clothing, I'm going to 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 the fight is that we get caught in a double feed. I'm going to 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 breechface 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 lock. 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 going to 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 going to be available for several other defensive pistols. Consider it. It's got a 0.18 inch wide notch, which means it's going to be a faster acquisition of the front site, regardless of which standard front sight 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.