Don't drop the slide on an empty chamber

[CZDiesel]

Interesting… I grew up with a father, as many of you surely have, that us boys that you don’t drop hammers unless you ask, don’t release empty slides on pistols, don’t slam shut cylinders on revolvers, and with our Winchester M-70s always hold the trigger down when closing the bolt on an empty chamber so the rifle is left un-cocked and unloaded for storage…
I don’t know, that’s what my father taught me, and sounds dang good to me, so that’s what I teach and asks others of now…

 

[Tex .416]

I’ve slammed by AR15 hundreds of times on an empty chamber with no issues. But, just like a Glock, it was designed as a combat weapon and not a BBQ gun.

????

1911’s have been issued to front line troops for more than 100 years - more than Glocks by a factor of 1,000x or more.

The USMC placed an order for 1911’s as recently as 2014.

 

[Datchew]

Well ... Now I'm going to do it just to buck the system

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I’m a Canadian so I’m probably not qualified to give handgun advice to you guys but I do think you all should bear in mind all them dead kittens are probably voting democrat on there mail in ballots.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Every time someone drops a slide on an empty 1911 chamber somewhere a kitten dies........ hahaha I know it's not good but that's hilarious

If you do that a cat dies. So where's the down side?

 

[cash_tx]

If you do that a cat dies. So where's the down side?

I think I will drop the hammer on an empty chamber a few dozen times simply because of this!

 

[Paul K]

Interesting… I grew up with a father, as many of you surely have, that us boys that you don’t drop hammers unless you ask, don’t release empty slides on pistols, don’t slam shut cylinders on revolvers, and with our Winchester M-70s always hold the trigger down when closing the bolt on an empty chamber so the rifle is left un-cocked and unloaded for storage…
I don’t know, that’s what my father taught me, and sounds dang good to me, so that’s what I teach and asks others of now…

If your father was anything like mine, He beat the Hell out of you till you got it right plus one good smack to make sure that it stuck.
Paul

 

[Boone66]

Don't drop the slide on empty. Don't ride the hammer down with your thumb, it will mess up your hooks.

Except military manual of arms, for the 1911 says different. Cock Hammer all the way back,, before You hold the trigger fully to the rear, before you ride the hammer down, so no engagement of the bent and sear. Just like with any single action. Each to his own.

 

[Boone66]

If a slide can take 40,000 PSI slamming it around I doubt dropping it will hurt anything, I suspect many old military 1911 have slammed a thousand times??

As a military armor in a former life and retired gunsmith, I can attest to this and I have never seen any issues with it. Belive me, if a army private can't kill it, it can't be broke.