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use slide release or hand pull for new mag

gotstolefromgotstolefrom Member Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2004 in Ask the Experts
S'field 1911 45 and other 1911 style 45's.
When replacing a spent mag with a full one, after the last 'held open' shot.... I generally pull on the slide and let it drop, my boys tend to like to release the slide from the slide latch. The pistol they generally use has an extended slide release lever. Their argument is 'why would they make an extended release lever if it was not to be used this way ? I just pull the slide out of habit.. maybe from auto rifle use.

Is one way any better than the other ? Any other comments ?



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  • rediceredice Member Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hrm I hit the slide release because it feels good.
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  • 1KYDSTR1KYDSTR Member Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A matter of preference. The practice will not adversely affect the pistol and shows no more wear to the mag/slide release assembly, contrary to what you may have heard. IT is, I feel, a bit of a "cowboy" move for normal shooting but has the added benefit of not short feeding the round like releasing it by hand sometimes does. Watch IDPA or IPSA shooting events and note that they release the slide on reloads by using the extended release on their "race" guns. When shooting and reloading for speed/competition it is a necessity but when target shooting it is a matter of preference.

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  • btkbtk Member Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When shooting for fun do what you want. As a matter of life or death or training for such a situation; using the slide release is a fine motor skill and using your hand is a gross motor skill. I've been taught and believe that under stress of a life or death matter, fine motor skills diminish. Something to think about depending on the type of shooting and/or training you will be doing.
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  • CharChar Member Posts: 242 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always pull back the slide to release it, never use the slide release. This works on whichever auto I am shooting at the time, so it does not matter where the slide latch is. IE: on the SIG the release is where the safety is on other guns. And I find the stock Glock release too small to hit every time reliably. So the slide pull works for me every time on every gun.
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  • cliffdropover1cliffdropover1 Member Posts: 136 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    An instructor from the Tactical Defense Institute claims they teach to always pull the slide back as it is more reliable. In doing so, you are moving the slide just a bit more to the rear and thus giving it a bit more travel to chamber the new round. Sounds logical to me.

    Hope this helps.
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