Front slide cocking serrations

[ja308]

Literally the entire slide (Not my pic):





It's just the internet, broseph. Take a chill pill (but don't put it in the trigger guard)

Yeah Sparky you used the internet to call anyone using their thumb inside the trigger guard and forefinger to press check as being" foolish and unsafe" !

This was an insult to everyone who used and still uses that procedure.

So maybe you should get a dictionary and choose words that show some respect to fellow shooters by using words not designed to insult !

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No, common sense stopped that. Jamming a thumb inside the trigger guard of a loaded weapon is foolish at best.


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My 1911 has full length guide rod so I don't check it like that, but if you did check regular 1911s like that you wouldn't need to jam thumb inside trigger guard, just catch the edge of it.

1911s have grip safety so as long as you don't squeeze grip safety even if you did jam thumb in the trigger guard it would be hard to get it to fire.

You can also hold thumb of other hand on the hammer making it impossible to fire.

[tuna quesadilla]

My 1911 has full length guide rod so I don't check it like that, but if you did check regular 1911s like that you wouldn't need to jam thumb inside trigger guard, just catch the edge of it.

1911s have grip safety so as long as you don't squeeze grip safety even if you did jam thumb in the trigger guard it would be hard to get it to fire.

You can also hold thumb of other hand on the hammer making it impossible to fire.

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You do you, mang. Fiddling with hammers, playing with the edge of your trigger guard... it’s a dangerous game, when you could just use your handy-dandy front cocking serrations to do your press check.

My 1911 doesn't have front serrations, but it does have a full length guide rod, so I don't do any fiddling with thumb in trigger guard. I was just explaining to you how it can be done safely with a 1911 doing it the way those guys are talking about.

Only pistol I have with front serrations is a sd9ve. It's not nearly as safe a pistol as the 1911. It has no safety, no grip safety and no hammer, so it may need them if it didn't have loaded chamber indicator, but I manage with Kahr that doesn't have them and it is about as safe a pistol as the sd9ve.

[jimmykan]

The tactics, techniques and procedures in the combat use of the handgun have advanced light years from the days of John Browning. The enhanced ability to safely and securely perform a press check under combat conditions that front serrations provide is considered important enough to today's "operators" that the serrations have been part of modern pistol design for what.. 15 years or so?
Times change...so do our weapons and the way we use them.

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My 1911 doesn't have front serrations, but it does have a full length guide rod, so I don't do any fiddling with thumb in trigger guard. I was just explaining to you how it can be done safely with a 1911 doing it the way those guys are talking about.

Only pistol I have with front serrations is a sd9ve. It's not nearly as safe a pistol as the 1911. It has no safety, no grip safety and no hammer, so it may need them if it didn't have loaded chamber indicator, but I manage with Kahr that doesn't have them and it is about as safe a pistol as the sd9ve.

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A firing pin block is one thing that I do believe makes pistols more safe, but that comes equipped on pretty much all modern pistols nowadays (except, ironically, most 1911s.)

Mines an extra safe series 80.

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It saves time when doing a reload with the gun empty. Also, most competition 2011s have grip safety pinned as well.

On my competition 2011s grip safety is pinned and there is no side lock.