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Chambering a round slowly may cause a misfeed and will not be good in a defensive scenario. For practice I don't let the slide forward unless I have a snapcap simulating a loaded mag. Letting the slide slam home on an empty chamber will speed up the wear on your gun unless you have a very light recoil spring for shooting target loads. When dry firing a Glock I use snapcaps and never ever have any live rounds around specially in magazines.
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Sometimes "friends" don't give the best advice when it comes to firearms. It usually takes finding this out the hard way in order to realize a lot of people don't know squat about squat. A "friend" of mine told me never to dry fire my glock as it was bad for it.........ummm yeahhh. Just do what I do....smile and say thank you for the advice.Comment
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letting the slide go into battery "slowly" is only bad when you're loading live ammo.. The gun is not designed to chamber ammo this way and you can induce malfunctions by doing this.. As everyone has also pointed out, riding the slide is a bad habit as well..
In regards to dry firing, it's not going to hurt anything.. Letting the slide go home, full force on an empty chamber, IMHO, is like slamming the doors on your car everytime you get in or out.. It's not going to hurt, but its a little excessive.. When I dry fire, I simply rack the slide about an inch or so (like everyone is saying). That's all the distance you need to engage the striker on a Glock..Aloha snackbar!Comment
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the glock is not a delicate weapon so dont be afraid to rack with full force on an empty chamber. also you really dont need snap caps for the glock. you will not cause any appreciable premature wear dry practicing. if you are practising things like emergency reloads or malfunctions i would highly encourage you to NOT do them gently as you will fight as you train. like others have said if you simply want to reset the action just move the slide back half an inch and let it go forward.SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUMComment
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I've heard that people have stuck a small piece of cardboard in between the slide and the chamber area so that it is held open just enough to allow the trigger to reset without manually racking the slide. I'm sure you could Google it to find out more info- and they even sell a kit that replaces the internals to those specifically designed for dry fire, but for the $$ and the time that it would take to swap out, I'd just stick to manually racking it.MY AR Profile #1Comment
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So to my understanding, it is not specifically harmful to the to bring the slide forward slowly.. but it is bad to do when you are chambering a round. I think maybe this is what my friend was told and had gotten confused about.
Letting it go forward slowly is a bad habit and bad for muscle memory, that is a really good point.
Moving the slide just a little bit back back to recock it works..
Thanks for the responses everyone.. this is very informational and helpful.Comment
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Did your friend used to work at Turners..?
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I say make the noise. If any of your neighbors are bad dudes with intent on busting you up someday, the sound of you fine tuning your target acquisition might give them pause.
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