Using slide release lever

[brian5271]

Because they don't make a cool enough revolver yet...

[bsim]

My experiences have taught me to pull the slide back whenever I want to release the slide. One reason is I have found you can feel if the bullet gets picked up and inserted into the barrel,...

Huh?

If you're sling-shotting the slide, you've let go of it before it starts stripping the next round from the mag. Making it effectively the same as hitting the slide release - with the exception of the ~1/8" longer travel when pulling the slide back 1st.

How can you "feel" the bullet getting picked up if you're not riding the slide?

[krby]

1) Don't drop the side on an empty gun regardless of how you do it. I know it's potentially bad for 1911s. I suspect it's bad on other handguns. It's just my habit.

2) When clambering a round, release the slide however you want. You could wear out parts on the slide if you do this but shooting the gun wears out parts. Using the slide lock lever or not is a religious debate. Many fine instructors are on each side of this. I used to think one way, now I think the other.

[InGrAM]

Because they don't make a cool enough revolver yet...

Oh really?

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[Masada86]

Oh really?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...w=1366&bih=640

Not a fan....

[Sbasham]

Let me ask this, in a gun fight are you gonna push the "slide stop" or "slide release" down after you loaded a new magazine or are you gonna pull the slide back and let go? To me its easier to pull the slide back instead of trying to find and press the lever.


Second thing, with a glock if its angled right and you slam a new magazine in the slide will close by itself.

[InGrAM]

Not a fan....

Man, your ice cold.

[InGrAM]

Let me ask this, in a gun fight are you gonna push the "slide stop" or "slide release" down after you loaded a new magazine or are you gonna pull the slide back and let go? To me its easier to pull the slide back instead of trying to find and press the lever.


Second thing, with a glock if its angled right and you slam a new magazine in the slide will close by itself.

A lot more pistols than just the Glock line do that.

[Sbasham]

A lot more pistols than just the Glock line do that.

Ive only shot Glock, Sig, Kimber and some revolvers. I've never had it happen on the Sig or Kimber so i thought it just Glock. Thanks.

[Gryff]

Let me ask this, in a gun fight are you gonna push the "slide stop" or "slide release" down after you loaded a new magazine or are you gonna pull the slide back and let go? To me its easier to pull the slide back instead of trying to find and press the lever.

It's however you train. For me, I'm using the lever because it gets the gun back in the fight faster and the it's the way I've completed a reload several thousand times over the past few years.

[krby]

It's however you train.

this ^^^^^

Decide on a method, train that way consistently.

[gasol1ne]

ive seen a really really old (maybe 60 year old) US Gov 1911 still being used in the Philippine army. The guys there are always slamming the slide down on an empty chamber and dry firing with out snap caps. After all those years of hard abuse, the frame is still not cracked. Id insert a picture but i dont know how haha

But on my RIA Tactical though, the slide release notch is already peening on both sides, (using slide release and sling shot method).

[Masada86]

Man, your ice cold.

Cold is my middle name...ok that was way too cheesy even for me...

Now this is cool enough...

[USMC 82-86]

I have always used the overhand racking of the slide, just the way I trained. The wear using the slide stop/slide release method does exist but it would probably take a long long time to see the effects. Metal on metal will always cause wear. To check this out, use the Slide stop method, and you will see a slight contact as the slide stop moves down and again as the slide stop brushes the slide as it is moving forward. Now use the overhand method pull back the slide and you will see the slide stop fall away because you have taken the tension from the recoil spring away. Using the slide release method the spring is still under tension and you get the rub on the slide release as well as the slide catch on the slide. Hope that gives you a visual.

[Tjfearl]

Let me ask this, in a gun fight are you gonna push the "slide stop" or "slide release" down after you loaded a new magazine or are you gonna pull the slide back and let go? To me its easier to pull the slide back instead of trying to find and press the lever.


Second thing, with a glock if its angled right and you slam a new magazine in the slide will close by itself.

In a gun fight I will be worried about mag retention so that I can regroup and reload, so I perform a speed or tactical reload and put my empty in my pocket or dump pouch while engaging the "slide release" with my weapon hand.