Combo failure to extract/stovepipes are much more fun. It's when you still have the empty in the chamber and another round trying to feed in, typically caused by an extractor/extractor spring failure.

In a life or death situation, you would be dead if this happened unless you train on fixing it every night. It just takes too long.

Ideally, you would pull back the slide, dump or flick out the stovepiped cartridge, drop the magazine, let the slide slam home on the empty, and pull the slide to extract the empty. Insert a full magazine and reload.

If the stuck round won't pull out by the extractor manually, you need to drop a cleaning rod down the barrel to knock it out.

If you have a pistol that does this( such as anything made by Lorcin), either fix it or buy a better pistol that doesn't, such as a CZ-52 :drool: