1911Tuner
Moderator Emeritus
It won't hurt the slide and it won't hurt the sear as long as the hammer doesn't follow and bang the half-cock notch.
What it will do is batter the bejabbers out of the barrel's lower lug feet and the slidestop pin holes in the frame.
Ever seen an old pistol with the slide sitting forward of the frame at the rear? How about slidesdtop pin holes that are egg-shaped? Aluminum alloy frames with a crack in the bottom of the slidestop pin hole...running vertically? I have.
Doing it occasionally won't do any permanent damage. It's SOP after a trigger job to check for hammer followdown.
Field strip the pistol, and slip the slidestop pin through the link. Swing the link to the in-battery position...with the slidestop pin resting in the curve of the lower lug feet. That contact is all that stops the one-pound slide, driven by a 16-pound spring...and ultimately is absorbed by the slidestop crosspin holes in the frame.
Aside from doing it occasionally as a safety check for followdown...there's really no good reason to do it. Why abuse the equipment just because you can? You don't slam the door on your car every time you close it.
The Glock's system is a different animal. It uses a thick crossmember solidly fixed in the frame to stop the slide, and the impact abutment in the lower lug is also more beefy and robust. Still no good reason to do it, but it'll tolerate it much better.
Aside from that...It's your gun. Slam'em if ya got'em.
What it will do is batter the bejabbers out of the barrel's lower lug feet and the slidestop pin holes in the frame.
Ever seen an old pistol with the slide sitting forward of the frame at the rear? How about slidesdtop pin holes that are egg-shaped? Aluminum alloy frames with a crack in the bottom of the slidestop pin hole...running vertically? I have.
Doing it occasionally won't do any permanent damage. It's SOP after a trigger job to check for hammer followdown.
Field strip the pistol, and slip the slidestop pin through the link. Swing the link to the in-battery position...with the slidestop pin resting in the curve of the lower lug feet. That contact is all that stops the one-pound slide, driven by a 16-pound spring...and ultimately is absorbed by the slidestop crosspin holes in the frame.
Aside from doing it occasionally as a safety check for followdown...there's really no good reason to do it. Why abuse the equipment just because you can? You don't slam the door on your car every time you close it.
The Glock's system is a different animal. It uses a thick crossmember solidly fixed in the frame to stop the slide, and the impact abutment in the lower lug is also more beefy and robust. Still no good reason to do it, but it'll tolerate it much better.
Aside from that...It's your gun. Slam'em if ya got'em.
