Of course the only way I know I'm getting better at clearing malfunctions is because I had a few.
On the first run throught the COF, I shot left handed. Well, the last shooting position had the shooter against a wall on his right with about eight verticle seam to shoot through. I ended up choosing to shoot the four targets one handed. I was going slowly and making hits when I got several FTEs and a double feed. Actually it looked like a partially extracted round and the next round lodged under it against the feed ramp. I locked slide back, removed mag, and cleared it. The other FTE was cleared by a tap, rack, and bang. I initially attributed these failures to limp wristing.
On the second run, I was shooting two handed and had another FTE. I must have been watching my front sight because I saw immediately that the slide was not in battery and quickly TRB. I liked my quick recovery from the malfunction but I couldn't blame the malf on limp wristing.
Now I think the malfs were caused by the environment I put the gun through.
I took my mountain bike on vacation the week before. I road it through a rain storm and when I got home, I washed off the dirt and mud from the bike and just poured the hose over me to do the same.
I let my rig dry out (removed gun and mag from leather) that night but didn't strip down the guns and relub. Well now I'm at the match and I unload my gun and the mags have RUST spots. Upon reflection, I'm now thinking that the extractor needed cleaning and lubrication from its water soaking. These malfs were probably user induced because of my failure to dry out and relub the gun.
Learned: Clean guns after exposure to water or a lot of sweat even if I didn't shoot them. This may seem like common sense but I lacked some here.
