Took an excellent all day tactical pistol class from two LEO trainers. Safety, safety, safety were numbers 1,2,3 of course. During drills on clearing malfunctions they emphasized avoiding slingshotting the slide (versus full-hand grasp), the theory being (to which I ascribe complete) that the full hand approach is more reliable when under stress. They applied the same logic to releasing the slide after an emergency mag load - grab the thing and rack it versus using relatively fine motor skills to use the slide "release".
My wife and I took a 2 hour lesson, HD/SD oriented, and the instructor had an opposing view : in case of malfunction use the slingshot because it saves a few tenths of a second and when doing an emergency reload use your left-hand thumb to release the slide after inserting the mag and prior to completing the left hand grip.
I'm going the reliable full-hand rack approach, but I'm interested in whether the community is somewhat split on these techniques.
My wife and I took a 2 hour lesson, HD/SD oriented, and the instructor had an opposing view : in case of malfunction use the slingshot because it saves a few tenths of a second and when doing an emergency reload use your left-hand thumb to release the slide after inserting the mag and prior to completing the left hand grip.
I'm going the reliable full-hand rack approach, but I'm interested in whether the community is somewhat split on these techniques.
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