Posted: 5/20/2016 8:26:32 AM EDT
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I've got big hands... not perfectly normal sized hands like Donald Trump... they are big.
Most any handgun gun I've owned when i have a full firing grip my strong hand thumb contacts the slide release and prevents it from engaging on an empty mag. This happens the least on glocks (which is why they are the only handgun i own now), but i still get a failure to lock back roughly 50% of the time. I've tested various things, it is not magazine related, its my long-ass thumb. Anyone tried a "low-profile" slide release? I don't know of any on the market, but i was thinking of cutting the down-fold off of a factory slide release so that just the horizontal edge comes out from under the slide. Enough to still push up to manually lock the slide back, and enough to still dis-engage, but hopefully solving my thumb drag issue. Thoughts? Reasons this is a stupid idea? |
| I am in the same boat as you with dinner plates for hands. I also use an extended slide stop. What I did was I trained my right thumb to place it on my support hand applying pressure to the support hand thumbs metacarpal. I had to learn this technique because when I shoot my PPS my thumb is all over the slide stop and will make it malfunction (lock back with rounds in mag or not lock back when empty). |
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I'm using the standard slide release on both my G17 and 19. Wife's G19 has the extended and i have the same problem. I'm already running extra power mag springs in most of my mags, and it still doesn't engage the slide stop most of the time.
I've thought about "re-training" my thumb... my concern is it totally breaks down consistency for single handed strong-side shooting. (not that I do a ton of that) I've got an extra standard slide stop laying around, I may just screw around with it to see what happens. |