On my Glock pulling back on the slide does not always release it.

[holdencm9]

Yeah 2 glocks I have shot, the slide releases just by tapping the mag bottom softly. So it doesn't hold too securely. You seem to have the opposite problem, though.

 

[Drail]

I just love it when all of the guys who teach "slingshot" only to release the slide suddenly encounter one where that technique won't release it. It doesn't work on all guns. I was taught (back in the dark ages) to use the slide stop to release because it always will on every gun. (Yes, I know Glock doesn't recommend it because it will wear the corner off of their cheeseball part. Stop stamping parts out of unhardened sheet metal and use good steel guys)

 

[1KPerDay]

II was taught (back in the dark ages) to use the slide stop to release because it always will on every gun.

Try it on a SIG P230.

 

[9mmepiphany]

...or a Walter PP/PPK or H&K P7 (Yes, the P7 has a slide stop)

 

[GLOOB]

I just love it when all of the guys who teach "slingshot" only to release the slide suddenly encounter one where that technique won't release it.

Good grief. Really? The OP's gun obviously has the slidestop installed incorrectly, and he still hasn't figured it out. I guess you make a good point of IF the slidestop spring is broken or malfunctions, you ought to know how to fix it. But the slingshot is still way more universal than the slide release. There are several guns where the slide release is internal, or the external control is placed in an odd location. Yet, all will release after a slingshot, if they're working correctly.

Stop stamping parts out of unhardened sheet metal and use good steel guys)

First off, the part is hardened. Throws some good sparks if you put it to a grinder. Second, Glocks do very well with using the slide "release," despite their official recommendation. I'd like to see a pic of a worn out or otherwise broken "unhardened sheet metal" Glock slide stop. On most guns, the slide notch rounds off before the slide stop wears out.

 

[beatledog7]

I thought this had been settled when Bri said, essentially, don't baby it.

 

[mavracer]

Sorry shouldn't be arguing about a 1911 thumb safety in a thread about Glock slide stop.

It would seam OP's question has been taken care of.

 

[1911Tuner]

Only that it was designed specifically so that it could be carried that way.

Never said that it wasn't. It was designed specifically to provide a choice.

My only point was to address the myth of "The way that Browning intended." There was no such intent. More of a: "Here's your pistol, General. You can do this, this, this, or this. You figure it out from here. I'm goin' to Belgium."

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

I'd also suggest that the OP replace the extended stop with a standard one.