Posted: 9/25/2009 8:03:32 AM EDT
| the slide release on my glock 30 is just impossible for me to release with just my thumb... i saw an add on part that would extend the slide release - i suspect if i coul dget better purchase on the g30 slide release i could release it with my thumb, sinilar to the way it works on my beretta 92. |
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The standard answer is you should be using the "slingshot" method to release the slide, because it is a slide stop, not a slide release. That being said, I did it that way for years and still don't have problems with my gun, but I do have an extended slide stop on mine. Here are links to a couple:
Glock Extended Slide Stop Aro-Tek Extended Slide Stop I have both, and actually have the Aro-Tek on my G30, and I haven't had any problems with it in the 12 years I have owned it. Some guys will tell you that you will ruin your gun and that you don't need an extended slide stop on a concealed gun and blah blah blah blah ! 
I say do what feels comfortable to you, you are the one that has to live with it. |
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Quoted: The standard answer is you should be using the "slingshot" method to release the slide, because it is a slide stop, not a slide release. And the standard answer is dead wrong. As has been argued many times here, if Glock didn't design the Slide Stop Lock to be used to release the slide, they wouldn't have made an extended version for their competition models like the G34 and G35. The argument that a slide stop can't be used to release the slide because of it's name is just plain silly. By the same logic one couldn't use the parking brake lever to release the brakes, just to apply them; a push broom couldn't be used to drag things to you, only to push them away; and the lock on your door couldn't be used to unlock it. Face it, it's just the name for a part on the pistol. The Glock Slide Stop Lever was designed to release the slide if the operator chose to use it for that purpose. Whether you decide to use it is your business, however, no one's decision automatically makes it law for everyone else, much to the chagrin of the Slide Stop Lock Nazis here. |