Anyway, Joel was not an experienced shooter and was having a hard time breaking the habit of handling his 1911 as if he's afraid of breaking it. After lunch, everyone was back on the firing line and Clint was marching up and down the firing line barking commands and instructions. As he walk past Joel, he gave the command to load the empty gun (they were doing dry firing drills prior to this) and perform a system check. Now keep in mind that Clint walks a pretty brisk pace and he was looking straight across the firing line as he was giving the command... Clint took two more steps, stopped, turned around and walked right up to the right rear side of Joel and asked if he is sure the gun is loaded. Joel answered "yes". Clint then asked if he would like to bet $5 on this. Joel again answered "yes". Clint then dropped the magazine from the gun and opened the action to show Joel an empty chamber.
After this little incident, Joel is now a firm believer in what Clint was teaching about doing system checks, inserting magazines with a firm smack to the bottom of the magazine, and works the slide as if he is trying to pull it off the gun.
To this day, I'm still amazed that Clint was observant enough to catch the sound of a gun closing on an empty chamber while barking out commands. It looks like all these years have not slowed him down one bit.