Gun handling at the store

[jakemccoy]

I don't drop the slide on an empty chamber. I do not think it hurts the gun as much as some people claim it does. However, I've seen guns store employees consistently, without fail go off into lectures about not doing it to their guns. That's fine. I do not need to drop the slide to check the gun. The next thing people will want to do is drop the gun from six feet to see how it holds up. While that very well may prove something, you'll actually have to buy the gun and leave my store first, thanks.

 

[Old Fud]

Owners Manual of Ed Brown Products:

Ed Brown 1911 Owners Manual, page 5 of 5:

"Handling:
Never Slam the slide shut without a round being fed from the magazine. Slamming the slide shut on an unloaded gun is hard on the frame, barrel fit, and especially the hammer/sear engagement surfaces.
Also never drop a round into the chamber and drop the slide on it. This springs the extractor out of position. Always feed rounds from a magazine."

In order to keep and preserve that thing of beauty that Mr. Brown has put into my hands, I will do anything he says!

I have snap-caps in my range bag that I use to test unload and reload procedures. I LOWER the slide on an empty chamber when I'm done and want a cold pistol.

I dry fire either with or without the snap-caps.
(Except my .22's --- I always dry-fire them with a snap-cap or a used shell casing in the chamber)

Fud

 

[Thernlund]

Why not? You're the customer.

All it really comes down to is how bad you want it and how bad they want to sell it. Those two things must meet at some point, regardless of where that point is, eh?


-T.