How bad is thumbing the slide stop?

[Stevie-Ray]

I always use the slide stop/release. In fact my Mark IV has an extended slide release to make it easier. It has gone well over 10,000 rounds with nary a problem.

 

[braindead0]

Of course, you wouldn't use either the slide stop (release) lever or the "slingshot" method in a tactical reload.

Point is, attempting to use the slide release on a tac-load isn't going to cause a live round to be ejected...

 

[Charles Guggenheimer]

OK, I am the "prick" who originally posted this reply on packing.org

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Your Glock 36 does not have a "slide release" and your continued use of the slide lock lever as such will eventually damage the slide lock lever of your otherwise indestructible Glock handgun. Release the slide by firmly grasping the rear of the slide and pulling the slide as far back as possible before letting the slide spring closed.
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That is the warning I got from the previous Glock owner of the first Glock I ever purchased many years ago. Please note that I did not claim that you can never use it to release the slide, only that choosing to use it as a release will eventually damage the lever, and an indoor range that I frequent has several Glock models they rent that suffer the fate of needing that part replaced.

I still have my first Glock. Several thousand rounds were fired through it before I bought it and several thousand more were shot since I bought it. A Glock armorer has seen it over the years and replaced several parts that were worn or broken, but my slide lock lever was not one of them.

That may not be statistically significant, but I will continue to advise anyone shooting any of my Glocks or their own to avoid using the lever as a slide release.

 

[seeker_two]

One advantage to the "slingshot" method:

It works on EVERY autopistol, whether it has a conventional slide stop/release lever (i.e. Glock, 1911, etc.), an internal slide stop (i.e. Walther), or no slide stop at all (i.e. Hi-Point, Patriot). One method to train = simplicity.


Try it yourself...

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

*shrug* i don't use hi points or glocks or other pistols without slide releases.

i use 1911s and revolvers. therefore no real need to come up with a universal system that works okay with everything but not perfectly with anything.

 

[Nero Steptoe]

"but my slide lock lever was not one of them..."


It's a SLIDE STOP LEVER !!!!!!!

 

[Boats]

Maybe the slingshotters can just do a group SIG purchase and remove the temptation of having a logically located slide lock/release/button/lever/thingamabob.