new glock having some trouble handling
- Thread starter Bagels
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Do modern Glocks have an ambi slide release now?
When you talk about the left and right side levers and the force needed, I get an image of the disassembly levers...
Yes they are ambi now. And i am talking about the slide release lever not the disassembly lever. I am pretty sure my glock is not working properly and this is a ####ty experience for my first handgun.
- Location
- Newmarket,Ontario
We were discouraged from using the slide release to load a new Mag and were told to rack instead as trying to hit the slide release. In a combat situation it may be hard to fumble around trying to hit the release (small motor skills). We practiced a lot as I recall with dummy rounds mixed with live rounds at random in the mags to simulated misfires, so TAP/RACK was drilled into us. I still never use the slide stop on any of my many Pistols.
Just opened my brand new Glock 35 gen4 , first thing I did was pull the slide back to lock, dropped the slide with the slide lock. No issues, it was easy with my hand in shooting position. I would almost say it's easier than any of my 1911's, except of course my walther colt 22. I would think there may in fact be an issue with the OP's pistol. But unless I can try it I will really never know. But from personal experience 30 seconds ago, it's easy to drop the slide on a Glock with the slide release. Hell I just let my wife try it and she has small hands, plus she shoots revolver not auto so no real experience, dropped the slide with 1 finger no problem. I think the OP should get the gun looked at by a Smith before use, something isn't right.
Corey
Corey
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My new Beretta APX and Sig I also find the slide releases stupidly hard to manually operate. I chalk it up to being new guns. My M&P9 wasnt to bad after broken in. However my 92 is easy as pie to manipulate. I chalk that up to being its a elongated lever whereas most slide stops arnt.
How is this thread still going on?
I shoot 1000-1500 rounds per month through my G19 with the receipts to prove it and the slide lock lever had VERY OBVIOUS WEAR after 3,000 rounds, when I installed a new extended one, from using it to release the slide.
It's flimsy as #### and made of the cheapest metal. It WILL wear down, if it doesn't you aren't shooting enough. But I don't care because it's a cheap ass gun and a replacement extended Gen 4 lever is 20$ from Nordic Marksman.
Apparently the Gen 5 levers have been beefed up for this exact reason.
OP, here is your extended ambi lever and they will ship to Canada
https://www.rockyourglock.com/custom/GLSP47249.htm
I shoot 1000-1500 rounds per month through my G19 with the receipts to prove it and the slide lock lever had VERY OBVIOUS WEAR after 3,000 rounds, when I installed a new extended one, from using it to release the slide.
It's flimsy as #### and made of the cheapest metal. It WILL wear down, if it doesn't you aren't shooting enough. But I don't care because it's a cheap ass gun and a replacement extended Gen 4 lever is 20$ from Nordic Marksman.
Apparently the Gen 5 levers have been beefed up for this exact reason.
OP, here is your extended ambi lever and they will ship to Canada
https://www.rockyourglock.com/custom/GLSP47249.htm
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90's called and want their dogma back.
CGN threads never disappoint. Gotta love it when an internet Glock expert says the slide release wasn't designed to be used as the primary method, yet the Glock manual lists using the release first. lol!
Well, since you brought it up, I did come in 1st overall at a match by 0.5 seconds once, and I don't use the slide racking method.
You know why I love gun people? Because the smart tend to outweigh the ignorant.
But in an attempt to get this back on track for the OP, I agree with the last guy can you get a picture of this thing? I can’t foresee many reasons why a slide catch would be so difficult to the point of it being inoperable.
But in an attempt to get this back on track for the OP, I agree with the last guy can you get a picture of this thing? I can’t foresee many reasons why a slide catch would be so difficult to the point of it being inoperable.
themachinist
CGN Regular
- Location
- lower mainland , bc
Back to the original question (for a moment), i almost gaurantee your glock is perfectly fine. Keep at it man, your thumb strength will get better in time. Work that thing like a beast, dont give up. No oil needed on the slide lock. My buddy said the same exact thing about his m&p and when i tried it at the range, she worked just fine.
Its not thumb strength. ITs immovable on the left side, like no give at all just a solid immovable piece when its locked back. And only works when i push really hard on both sides together with two hands.
Top glock owners, when the gun is ready aka the slide isnt locked and you push on the slide lever button does it move down ever so slightly or does it not move even 1 mm? my right side moves a bit like a spring the left side doesnt move at all like a stuck piece of steel.
There's no such thing as a glock slide release. It's a slide stop lever. You CAN use it to release the slide, for sure, no one is disputing that. I use it. But there will be wear. As much as you want this not to be true, even Glocks must obey the laws of physics...
DAmn, i also notice that the back Ameriglo sights are off center a bit as well. The sights are a 2mm difference from the sides meaning the left side of the back sight is 2mm farther to the right. Quite disappointed in Glock. Not the greatest first experience for a handgun.
Have you even shot it yet? Just because they seem off in your eyes does not mean the pistol is not accurate.
- Location
- Newmarket,Ontario
CreamySmooth
CGN frequent flyer
I think people are missing the reasons here for using each.
If you compete, which I now do, most use the slide release to save time. There is nothing wrong with this.
However, where the slide release will fail you is in a combat situation. “Tap, Rack” is taught because once a lethal confrontation begins, all the physiological responses that your body goes into renders fine motor skills absolutely useless. You can think “this won’t happen to me” but it will. It’s happened to me 3 times in my career. Fine motor skills.... out the window. You can try to operate that slide lock lever.... you won’t even be able to feel it. It’s like you have large pieces of putty on the end of your arms. But, macro motor skills that you have trained into by repetition work. “Tap, rack”. I keep using it in competition because I’m no dreamer.... I’ll never be world class or even provincial at my age. But I don’t want to be confused the next time I REALLY need that slide to operate.
If you want to see or experience something similar, go physically exhaust yourself, and I mean bag ass exhausted, and then try to operate your pistol. Very similar. Sinatra’s “90’s dogma” is still current.
If you compete, which I now do, most use the slide release to save time. There is nothing wrong with this.
However, where the slide release will fail you is in a combat situation. “Tap, Rack” is taught because once a lethal confrontation begins, all the physiological responses that your body goes into renders fine motor skills absolutely useless. You can think “this won’t happen to me” but it will. It’s happened to me 3 times in my career. Fine motor skills.... out the window. You can try to operate that slide lock lever.... you won’t even be able to feel it. It’s like you have large pieces of putty on the end of your arms. But, macro motor skills that you have trained into by repetition work. “Tap, rack”. I keep using it in competition because I’m no dreamer.... I’ll never be world class or even provincial at my age. But I don’t want to be confused the next time I REALLY need that slide to operate.
If you want to see or experience something similar, go physically exhaust yourself, and I mean bag ass exhausted, and then try to operate your pistol. Very similar. Sinatra’s “90’s dogma” is still current.
