From dropping the slide on an empty chamber to flipping your revolver cylinder shut, these are some things you never want to do to a handgun.
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From dropping the slide on an empty chamber to flipping your revolver cylinder shut, these are some things you never want to do to a handgun.
Why would you drop a slide on an empty chamber in dry fire?Your subject should be "don't do this to a 1911 and a revolver". Anyone who dry fires a striker gun does this thousands of times. I try to dry fire every night with whatever i'm shooting the most, currently the P365. If your gun breaks because you use it you probably need a new gun.
Why would you drop a slide on an empty chamber in dry fire?
Serious question.
I dry fire striker fire guns (well...sometimes). I pull the slide back just far enough to reset, which is not far at all on a Block.Reset the trigger?
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I dry fire striker fire guns (well...sometimes). I pull the slide back just far enough to reset, which is not far at all on a Block.
Wait a darn minute, I bought a gun from you!Meh, I'm not impressed. In the 2-3 weeks between when I buy a gun and then sell it, the few times I abuse it won't hurt it too much.
And he's bought them from me, and vice versa. We both owned several of the same guns, twice. He's easy on 'em.Wait a darn minute, I bought a gun from you!
Plenty of people with long thumbs drop their slide on an empty chamber every single time they empty a magazine. Because their thumb rests on the slide-release and they never get slide-lock on an empty mag. I’ve been doing it for decades.
If Bill Wilson, Ken Hackathorn, Amp Mangum, and somebody upthread said John Travis also says it's no bueno, you might give it a listen.Possibly true. Doesn’t change my position that dropping the wiled on an empty-chamber 1911 with the trigger pulled is completely harmless.
I did it when I was practicing reloads.Why would you drop a slide on an empty chamber in dry fire?
Serious question.
Why would you drop a slide on an empty chamber in dry fire?
Serious question.
I run dummy rounds for that, so in full disclosure I don't think I'd even tried that.Practicing mag changes
Good video, it just reiterates many things ive heard before. I think tuner said releasing the slide while empty was a nono. It makes sense to me. That was something I was guilty of for a while.
I dry fire striker fire guns (well...sometimes). I pull the slide back just far enough to reset, which is not far at all on a Block.
Speaking of 1911Tuner... is he still alive and well?
Speaking of 1911Tuner... is he still alive and well?