stanc Wrote:Practicing a slightly modified variation of the technique (while sitting here at the computer), it seems as if it might work for me if I hold the grip with my right hand and use left palm on the charging handle. Need to try it with a real gun, though.
A complication is that, although I'm right-handed, I'll have to shoot left-handed. So, when I try the movement with hand positions reversed, it doesn't work at all well. However, since it's unlikely I'll be doing any tactical shooting, I suppose that doesn't really matter. For leisurely shooting from a bench, if what it takes to get the bolt all the way to the rear is to hold the grip with my right hand, then switch hands in order to shoot, who cares if it isn't tactically efficient...
Ouch! I hadn't heard of that before. Thanks for that tidbit.
I'd probably never shoot enough for that to be a concern, but it's good to know, anyway.
Hopefully one of these techniques will work, but if not, I have thought of another somewhat Rube Goldbergesque approach that probably would....
If you had a charging handle with some form of "eyelet" installed in the rear, you could use a release like is used on a compound bow to charge the weapon.
With the bow release attached to your chest, you would:
1.) clip onto the charging handle
2.) (while facing downrange) snag the carbine on a surface such as a shooting bench or verticle pole/surface and lean back. Your body weight would pull the charging handle rearward with little effort on you part.
3.) activate the bow release to let the charging handle fly forward.
If your AR had a bipod or forward "K" grip on the bottom, it would be easy to snag it on any convenient surface to do this....
It would probably be preferrable to find something that didn't require a bow release to be attached to your chest to charge your weapon, but if all else failed, it should work pretty easy I'd guess????
