If you are right handed and don't shoot a glock, I agree.
Ok, you lefties do have an excuse.
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If you are right handed and don't shoot a glock, I agree.
I've had it with this thread. Some very experienced shooters have given us the benefit of their knowledge and yet a bunch of dweebs (more than I had expected) refuse to listen. What should have been a learning experience has turned into a useless debate.
If you are right handed and don't shoot a glock, I agree.
If you can't hit the slide release by swiping your thumb, you need to see a neurologist.
Dropping the slide on an empty chamber on a 1911 will bugger up your sear to hammer mating surfaces causing your trigger action to degrade over time. Dropping the slide on a round in the chamber will cause extractor fatigue and could even break the tip of your extractor and this can lead to extractor failure over time.
A neurologist can make my thumb longer? Sweet!
I am acquainted with that theory, but to me, that is all it is - a theory. And my experience is that it isn't important in practice.The reason we develop our mussel memory to sling shot the slide and not to use the slide stop is when you have to do a slap, rack and pull on a gun that the mag has not seated properly. In a stress situation you don't want to get confused and lose time in getting your gun to fire and it is not as easy to do this with the slide stop.
The stock Glock slide release is small, but I find the extended one usable.
I don't care for the SIG P-series slide stop (neither the location nor the size) so on that gun I might cycle the slide. The HK USP slide stop is generously sized and well placed.
The Sig stop is weird but useable. I press in with my Shooting thumb and it unlocks. Actually half the time my grip keeps the slide from locking back cause my thumb is riding along the stop lever.
If you don't rely "fine motor skills," then how do you plan to get the magazine out of the gun?
Put some huge gloves on and push your mag release. Now push your slide stop. BIG difference.
I did take some of that from something I read somewhere, but it made sense to me.
So what I've gotten out of this thread is that a 1911 is an inferior design that breaks easily when you drop the slide.
I've dropped the slide on my M&P9 empty and ghetto loaded it probably thousands of times. It still works just fine and it doesn't even jack up the brass.
So what I've gotten out of this thread is that a 1911 is an inferior design that breaks easily when you drop the slide.
I've dropped the slide on my M&P9 empty and ghetto loaded it probably thousands of times. It still works just fine and it doesn't even jack up the brass.
Reading and doing are different
A fighting 1911 and a competition 1911 are 2 different guns, just like a fighting and competition M&P will be different. Odd how people still pick the 1911 over the M&P for both jobs
If you can't hit the slide release by swiping your thumb, you need to see a neurologist.
Releasing the slide with the slide stop is just bad practice.
Many (most?) competitors in IDPA and USPSA use the slide release. As a safety officer I see failures to feed most every match, and the shooters that use the slide release don't have any problem fixing a malfunction when it arises.
I'm almost convinced by this, but I'll continue using the slide release because it's so much faster and it's the opposite of what Rob Pincus teaches.
Releasing the slide with the slide stop is just bad practice.
Releasing the slide with the slide stop is just bad practice.
Greg Derr told me not to let the slide slam on my 1911 I'd take his word for it.