It seems to me that the people that don't do it are more bothered by people that do than vice versa. The "TV/movie watching" and other comments come out regardless of the backgrounds of the people doing it or the explanations given.
Happy new year to you too. I enjoy your various ramblings(a good thing) about you, your handguns and your life experience's.After much waffling, Glock 43X or Glock 19? Yesterday I went back to one of the most carried pistols in the free world, the Glock 19. Unload 43X put it back in the safe. Take out my G19 (The one with the fish scales?) has a perfect 4.5 lbs trigger, clean break hardly any front end take up. 15 round magazine inserted, rack slide, replace the missing round in the magazine. Done. I can actually see the little silver glint of the stainless cartridge case. 147g federal.
Bedside table. Tomorrow holster. No kids in this house, 8 grandkids in their own houses. Soon be the 2020 year, Happy New Year all. In advance.
With 1911s, the way many people used to do press checks was to hook the index finger of the weak hand around the front of the slide, on the recoil spring plug, and use that to pull back the slide. If that index finger were to ride up even slightly, it would be partially covering the muzzle and a negligent discharge at that time would have fairly predictable results.
Front cocking serrations (which I do not like, and which I avoid to the greatest extent possible) were added specifically to allow press checking without putting any digits in line with the muzzle.
There are cocking serrations at the back that work plenty good for me when it comes to racking the slide, and with optics on top, I had this cool little bar that fit in the now-empty rear dovetail but it was useless cuz I always just grabbed the optic
TODAY everyone is mounting optics on the slide. A few decades ago, that wasn't the case. Early "race guns" often had their optics on mounts that were fastened to the frame, and went around the slide at the rear, covering the normal cocking serrations. Slides got front serrations because the rear ones were no longer easily used. This was done for function, became style, and style becomes fashion, and people PAY for fashion.
I remember the various T-handles and rings and hooks and such that also got used, but they didn't get the "cool look" factor that front serrations got in the eye of the buying public. So they've pretty much gone away. And, with advances in tech, mounting more modern optics ON the slide, the need for front slide serrations has also gone away. But enough buyers like the look, so makers keep putting them on guns.
Personally, I rarely do any kind of "press check", never got in the habit, I find it awkward and while I'm not concerned with shooting my finger, its just not something I ever needed to do. Lots of my pistols cannot be "press checked", and if I have doubts about there being a round in the chamber, I just rack the slide/cycle the action.
Maybe its just me, maybe I'm different from most, but I've always thought that if you can't remember if you loaded the gun, or not, you shouldn't be carrying it or be going into harm's way...
Which pistols do you have that can’t be press checked?
As we covered in this thread months ago, there are a number of professional users of firearms and training centers that do press checks. If you don’t want to do one fair enough. Saying people that do one shouldn’t be carrying a firearm seems a bit of a stretch, imo.
Which ones can't be press checked? Just about everything that isn't a variant of the Browning tilt barrel system. So this includes all my .22s, pocket pistols (.32ACP, and .380) my 9mms (P.08 Luger and P.38) and I'd pay money (though not much) to watch the guy who thinks he can "press check" my Desert Eagles. You simply cannot "press check" a gun that isn't built to work that way, and I have quite a few of those. I also have several of the Colt/Browning tilt barrel types, so I know the difference.
Press check is to open the action slightly (without ejecting the cartridge) to visually check whether the chamber is loaded.
Press check is to open the action slightly (without ejecting the cartridge) to visually check whether the chamber is loaded. I don't understand why it can't be done on certain designs. I can do that on any firearms, including a Luger.
We are playing with words here, are we not? The idea of the check is just that; to verify the chamber is loaded. If it has to be pressing, what does it have to do with the front serration?
-TL
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