WhiteKnight
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At a recent CCW class, the instructor told us to always "slingshot" the slide manually instead of using the slide release lever. He said that during the stress/adrenaline rush of an actual gunfight, fine motor skills are the first thing to deteriorate (around 115 beats per minute) and thus there is a very strong possibility you will be unable to use the slide release and thus should always rack the slide.
However, shooting the IDPA match at the same gun range that evening, every single shooter I saw (around 30) all used the slide lock lever on their gun during a reload. They said they had no idea why anyone would every simply rack the slide.
I asked the instructor about it the next day, and he reclarified about the motor skills and then added that out of all the pistols that come with a slide lock lever, all but one call it a slide lock lever and the one oddball actually calls it the slide release.
What are your views on this? Should a slide release/lock be used to chamber a round (non-tactical reload) during a defensive shooting scenario? Or is it just to add speed during a shooting game?
However, shooting the IDPA match at the same gun range that evening, every single shooter I saw (around 30) all used the slide lock lever on their gun during a reload. They said they had no idea why anyone would every simply rack the slide.
I asked the instructor about it the next day, and he reclarified about the motor skills and then added that out of all the pistols that come with a slide lock lever, all but one call it a slide lock lever and the one oddball actually calls it the slide release.
What are your views on this? Should a slide release/lock be used to chamber a round (non-tactical reload) during a defensive shooting scenario? Or is it just to add speed during a shooting game?