Slide stop or slide release?

[Clobbersauras]

Releasing the slide using the slide-stop will, with time, erode the catch.

No, not on a quality pistol it won't. Slide stop catch springs can break, but I know guys with 30k though their guns who use the slide catch every time.

Edit: LOL - I said catch...hahahaha!

 

[krausb]

I call it a slide stop most of the time. I always use it to release the slide.

Back when James Yeager seemed like he knew what he was talking about and I didn't know better, I overhanded guns, despite the fact that I'd successfully hit the lever 100% of the time for the previous...I don't know, 5000 times?

This clicked for me at a TLG class. I was faster and better with the slide release.

It's not a huge amount of time to give up and I don't see WAY more malfunctions being generated by the overhand method so if people want to do that, I usually just shrug and move on to more important stuff. If they're trying to seriously dial in their shooting for maximum speed and reliability, I recommend using the slide release.

If they make a big deal about it and start going off, I conclude they're idiots and don't give them another thought.

Well put, good sir. Well put.

 

[Tongarirohiker]

I'm waiting for someone to chime in about "power stroking" their gun.

Wait for it......
[Youtube]SqkYnfAhgy0[/Youtube]

I be power strokin' all the time

 

[Tongarirohiker]

No, not on a quality pistol it won't. Slide stop catch springs can break, but I know guys with 30k though their guns who use the slide catch every time.

Edit: LOL - I said catch...hahahaha!

Firearms are machines. Machines have parts that may need to be replaced. I don't know why people worry about wearing them out. If it wears, just replace it!

 

[IM_Lugger]

it's both if it's capable of doing both, doesn't matter what you're using it for.

 

[onetwentyish]

For my 1911 its either or.

For my M&P9, its a stop because it automatically chambers a round off the freshly inserted mag thanks too a nice little bit of flex in the polymer frame.

 

[IBM]

There's some confusion over whether it's one or the other. All of my pistol manuals refer to it as a slide stop. Let's settle it once and for all.

hmmm

 

[Rod B]

Who gives a rats ass what it is called. Some of us appear to be easily confused, most people understand both descriptions.

 

[sailor723]

To let the slide go forward you release the slide stop. To lock the slide back you engage the slide stop

 

[RobertMcC]

According to the parts break down schematics. Slide Stop, Also every manufacture calls it a slide stop.

 

[Ebola]

Slide lock for me.

 

[Beermaker]

What does the manufactures manual call it? That will be their answer. Just like a "recoil spring" on the sks. It has nothing to do with recoil but it returns the bolt and carrier to the forward position so it's a return spring.

 

[RobertMcC]

What does the manufactures manual call it? That will be their answer. Just like a "recoil spring" on the sks. It has nothing to do with recoil but it returns the bolt and carrier to the forward position so it's a return spring.

Actually it does, it transfers kentic energy by the force of the bolt slamming back. Which soaks up the recoil and the shock, and returns it. Acts like a shock, and a spring. W/o it there would be massive metal to metal contact, probably parts shearing off.

So Slide release is the action to return the slide to battery ( Push down on the slide STOP to release the slide ) Because it needs to STOP before it can be released.

http://www.shootingillustrated.com/index.php/30632/its-a-slide-stop-not-a-slide-release/

http://www.brownells.com/search/index.htm?k=1911+Slide+Stop&ksubmit=y&f_a=49

See alot of SLIDE Stops, no Slide Release..

 

[Colquhoun]

There's some confusion over whether it's one or the other. All of my pistol manuals refer to it as a slide stop. Let's settle it once and for all.

Why the confusion if all of your manuals say slide stop???

 

[onetwentyish]

To let the slide go forward you release the slide stop. To lock the slide back you engage the slide stop

This rings true

 

[Gillis2]

I release using the sling shot method. I always have the impression that it wears prematurely the pistol if i use the SLIDE STOP as a SLIDE RELEASE.
Any foundations in this or is it only an impression I have?

Gilbert

 

[plinker 777]

Slide lock for me.

Not an option in the poll!? If we're making up our own names for it, I want to call it "the inertia suppression lever" (makes time travel possible) or the "inertial instigating arm" (to play devil's advocate.)

@ Gilbert: I don't think using the stop as a release would do any harm whatsoever...as long as the magazine is charged with something (snap cap, live round). Slamming a slide on a 1911 "dry" (without sheering a round from the magazine) makes the hair stand up on my neck. This will damage a pistol IMHO, and I won't tolerate anyone abusing my guns like that. But I see it on the range all the time (young guys doing on their own guns).

 

[Tongarirohiker]

I should explain why I started this poll in the first place. This was a result of the M&P thread that was started recently and both "slide release" and "slide stop" have been thrown back and forth. I figured, let's just get a sample of what people really think as stats only lie marginally.

I'm not confused over what to call it (although I like plinker's "inertia suppression lever" as an alternate), as any instructor I've talked to as well as all of my manual's do indeed say slide stop. I wanted to see where the rest of the community was on this.

 

[yohann160]

 

[Lyallpeder]

I call it a slide stop because I use it to stop the slide from moving forward. I don't hit it to close the action, I pull the slide back and let go.