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Posted: 6/14/2014 7:26:45 PM EDT
Grip issues?
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Posted: 6/14/2014 8:32:48 PM EDT
5 round magazine?
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Posted: 6/14/2014 8:48:51 PM EDT
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Grip issues? This, are you hitting the slide release upward? |
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Posted: 6/14/2014 9:49:18 PM EDT
Did you bend the slide release when you last cleaned it?
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:13:40 AM EDT
Make sure your thumb is not touching the slide stop lever while firing. I have rather large hands, so I ended up changing my grip. Now my thumb sits on the OUTSIDE of my support hand. That also helps prevent slide bite for me. HTH
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:29:54 AM EDT
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Now my thumb sits on the OUTSIDE of my support hand. I had to start doing that while shooting my Sigs, because my "Glock grip" that's worked with every other gun has my thumb sitting basically on that angled slide lock on Sigs. It's one of the reasons I'd never carry it - I know if the SHTF primacy would cause me to revert to the original grip. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:30:29 AM EDT
Simple problem with only two possible causes: (1) The slide stop spring is either broken or resting on top of the #1 pin. (2) You have inadvertently developed the bad habit of pushing upward on the slide stop each time you fire the pistol. Correct your grip; and this problem will go away.
TEST: Drop the magazine, and clear the weapon. Raise and lower the slide stop with your finger. If the slide stop snaps back down, of its own accord, after each time you raise it up then the spring is not broken, nor improperly installed. Use an empty magazine and manually rack the slide in order to assure that the slide locks open, and you haven't got a magazine follower problem. (Which, in the present case, I very much doubt.) |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 6:55:19 AM EDT
I had the same problem and swore it wasn't me/my grip, it was me. I ended up putting my forward thumb into the takedown lever area and ground the takedown lever down to flush on that side
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Posted: 6/15/2014 7:39:17 AM EDT
Common mistake where aggressive grip places thumbs close to the [slide stop], I get most folks to grip lefty and try and noticed it was that issue. gl.
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Posted: 6/15/2014 8:31:05 AM EDT
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5 round magazine? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I was shooting a match, we had to load two 5rd mags and reload. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 8:33:07 AM EDT
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Common mistake where aggressive grip places thumbs close to the [slide stop], I get most folks to grip lefty and try and noticed it was that issue. gl. I think this is it, I was under a 10sec time limit to fire 5 and reload. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 9:01:46 AM EDT
Extended/aftermarket slide lock?
Had it happen to me when i tried a aerotech extended slide lock on a G19. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 11:49:26 AM EDT
I would guess that you reassembled the frame incorrectly, with the slide stop spring resting on top of the the pin.
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Posted: 6/15/2014 2:49:37 PM EDT
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I would guess that you reassembled the frame incorrectly, with the slide stop spring resting on top of the the pin. Pistol worked fine, until about the 80 rd, then the hang up started. |
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Posted: 6/15/2014 10:52:11 PM EDT
Had that happen with a factory Glock extended slide stop...my finger was pushing it up. I fixed my grip but removed it and put back in the factory straight slide stop (this was on a G19)
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Posted: 6/16/2014 4:48:29 AM EDT
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Had that happen with a factory Glock extended slide stop...my finger was pushing it up. I fixed my grip but removed it and put back in the factory straight slide stop (this was on a G19) Exactly what happened with my 17. I have no need for an extended slide stop. |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 5:49:49 AM EDT
One of three things (in order of likelihood):
1) Pushing the slide stop up with your thumb 2) Slide stop installed incorrectly 3) Slide stop bent |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 5:50:12 AM EDT
OP,
I suspect one of three problems in order of likelihood. 1) You have an extended slide stop/release and during recoil your thenar prominence is pressing the slide stop up and causing the slide to lock open. It is for this reason that I got rid of the of the extended slide stop/release on my 17L, my high support hand grip would cause this to happen often enough as to bother me. 2) You are running the gun with weapon hand thumb against the frame rather than resting on your support hand thumb. During recoil your thumb is pressing up on the slide stop/release. If this is the case, consider changing your grip. 3) You have a broken, missing, or worn out spring on your slide stop/release. |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 7:31:36 AM EDT
1- you're touching it.
2- the slide stop spring is broken or improperly installed. Those are your options. |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 8:00:53 AM EDT
Some of the aftermarket slide locks have shitty springs. Use the stock spring.
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Posted: 6/16/2014 5:29:08 PM EDT
My first guess would be thumb malfunction.
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