Sling Shot The Slide Vs. Slide Release?

[Gunfighter123]

If the slide closes for whatever reason during a reload, it is possible it didn't pick up a round and hitting the side release lever will do nothing.

Sorry --- I don't get it !!!! If your slide closes dureing a reload ---- you have either pulled the slide back or hit the slide stop lever ----- Or you have a gun that is WEIRD or BROKEN

 

[Zak Smith]

you have either pulled the slide back or hit the slide stop lever

Not true.

In any case, if guns worked the way we expected 100% of the time, why do we train for malfunction drills at all?

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I like to depress the slide stop, even on the supposedly difficult Glock, just as personal preference.

 

[Rexster]

I consider "sling shot" to mean grabbing the rear of the slide between my index finger and thumb, as if using a sling shot. I used this method for a while, for Glocks, but when I acquired SIG P229s, and dumped the Glunks, the abbreviated slide serrations of the P229s taught me to use an overhand or "power stroke" method. I often default to using the slide stop (slide release) when shooting right-handed, to the extent that power-stroking can be called my lefty method, and the slide stop my right-hand method. (Yes, I practice quite a bit with each hand.) I had learned handgunning in 1983 with a 1911, and had learned back then to use the slide stop. I didn't start sling-shotting Glocks until 2002, so the slide release method had a big head start.

 

[RobMoore]

Autoforward that results from you banging the magazine lip against the magwell won't result in feeding of a round. Autoforward that results from you slamming the magazine home fully seated better feed a round, or you won't have much luck with the gun no matter how many times you rack it.

Either way, you're talking about a malfunction that should require cycling the gun. If you have a failure to feed, you will have to cycle the gun. I don't know of anyone who advocates pressing on the slide release to clear a malfunction. That would be just silly.

We're talking about ways to get the slide forward when it is locked to the rear, not clear a malfunction.

 

[shootinxd]

More important to teach GET your finger out of the trigger guard!!!!!!!Use whatever you need to close the action.

 

[SOUTHPAW]

Hmmm... Think I might make a trip to the gunsmith...