Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Releasing the slide.....

I forget which manufacturer, maybe Ruger for their Mk series .22’s or Kahr, advises in their manual to always use the slide release lever to drop the slide on a fresh magazine, never slingshot as the slide release method always results in more positive chambering of the round.

One long winded run-on sentence. The instructors are "cooler" if their ball cab is dirty and they have a big wad of chew in.

... on being able to make the slide jump forward and chamber a round by slamming a fresh magazine into the pistol hard enough to bump the slide forward.

As long as it didn't violate some principle of safety, I don't get wound up too much how it is done. Sling shot, hand over, slide stop, no biggie.

The one that did use to make me cramp a little is when shooters would COUNT on being able to make the slide jump forward and chamber a round by slamming a fresh magazine into the pistol hard enough to bump the slide forward. It works all greasy when it works ok, but those same shooters tended to look like a center fielder who just missed an easy pop fly when the slide stayed locked to the rear.

...Typically, fine motor skills like manipulating the SLIDE STOP with your thumb are lost during stress.

…..so I've been taught……don't know if I believe it or not……here's an interesting out-take from Bob Whaley about "7 myths of gun training."


6. HEART RATE DETERMINES YOUR ABILITY TO PERFORM PHYSICAL ACTIONS

Ok, here’s an admission. Nothing I’ve stated so far is my original idea. I have read comments and counter comments to virtually all the myths presented here and compared the credentials of the commenters. Heck, bouncing the sponge ball (come on, it was just a sponge ball) off the granddaughter’s head wasn’t even my idea! So when this myth came up years ago, I was curious if it had validity.
I talked to doctors and a variety of trainers who both did and did not agree with the concept. The trainers were split just about 50/50 for and against the concept. The doctors, who included sports medicine specialists and cardiologists, all said the concept was without merit. I deferred to the docs, and this myth has pretty much been de-bunked over time.
The docs all indicated the same thing. If your heart beats too slow or too fast, it eventually stops working. Not good! That’s the only effect your heart has on performance. As long as your heart beats within a range that doesn’t adversely affect your health—in other words you die—you can pretty much do whatever you have trained to do. Pretty simple actually.
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Using the slide release with the weak thumb is very fast, extremely consistent, and repeatable in daylight, at night, and under stress.

I never really paid attention to that until about three years ago. Why in the fugk anybody thinks spitting into a trash can every four minutes adds to their credibility, is beyond me.



Travis

I count on it.





Dave

Yup,


Have an old work compadre who is a former scout sniper instructor. Excellent marksman, and very knowledgeable, but his teaching style drove me nuts.