What is your preferred method for closing the slide on your semi-auto? I used to slingshot, but now, for speed, I use the slide lock.
Last edited:
If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
Be sure to enter the NES/MFS June Giveaway ***Keltec SUB2000***
Gross motor skills....pulling back on slide with support hand.
Gun close to body - thumb points towards shooter
Gun away from body - thumb points towards target
Care to translate that for us?
To close a slide with the magazine out, I use both the slide release and allow the slide to move into position slowly while being held. I think it causes less damage to the firearm.
Respectfully,
jkelly
What is your preferred method for closing the slide on your semi-auto? I used to slingshot, but now, for speed, I use the slide lock.
I use the slide release to chamber a round, which I'm told is wrong as it applies a weaker force.
I'll bite - weaker than what?
Whether one "slingshots" the slide or uses the slide lock release, the force is the same: That contained in the compressed recoil spring.
I'll bite - weaker than what?
Whether one "slingshots" the slide or uses the slide lock release, the force is the same: That contained in the compressed recoil spring.
I was taught to slingshot the slide, because in a high stress adrenaline pumping situation you will often lose fine motor skills.
Slingshot, but for a different reason. My thumb is too short to reach the slide lock on my 1911 without shifting my grip.
The recoil spring applies a weaker force on the slide when released from the "slide lock" position then if it is pulled to the "rear" and released (assuming that the "rear" position is farther away from the springs resting position then the slide lock position (Hooke's Law F=-kx)).I'll bite - weaker than what?---Scrivener
I think he is referring to which side of the slide his thumb is on when he jacks the slide...
With the gun in close, he has his thumb 'twards himself, using the "overhand", pushing back on the slide grip.
If the pistol is extended out at arms-length, grabbing the slide and pulling straight back.
My interpretation anyways...
Slingshot, but for a different reason. My thumb is too short to reach the slide lock on my 1911 without shifting my grip.
I like that "feature" on my M&P. My S&W 4043 does the same as long as it's fairly clean.Slide lock. But with my M&P just forcefully inserting a magazine will release the slide lock. I have not decided if I want to send it back to S&W to get it fixed, I kind of like it.