Good sights that also rack slide on belt or shoe?

10-8 offers a rear sight that has a flat front face on it.

Looks like this:

You can also rack one handed by pushing one side of the slide against something hard (corner, sidewalk, etc). You can damage the finish on the slide this way but if you have to rack one handed that would be the leats of your worries.

The CZ100 has a special "thingy" on the slide to faciilitate this without the risk of messing up the sights. Wasn't a real big selling point to me, but some people like it.

Downside is this gun has a trigger that makes the S&W Sigma trigger feel short and light.

Would you elaborate please?

My description wasn't too accurate. Take the corner of the front of the slide (muzzle end), place it on the edge of a table and push. You can use the corner of a wall, a curb, the heel of your shoe, window frame or anything else that isn't going to move from pushing on it.

Be sure you practice this with dummy ammo.

The more recent Meprolites are built for it.

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I rack the slide on my quad or rib cage. I am not strong enough to carry a table around with me.

Lucky, technique plays like this:

1. Press: press the slide into your quad or rib cage.
2. Run: run slide aggressively forward.

Some guys catch the chamber on their belt or holster, but I may not always have those on at 0 dark thirty in my t-shirt and running shorts.

The rear sight on my Cz 75B works great on my belt.

For straight night sights, Trijicons. If you want something a little more high-tech, try the TFOs. I can rack either of these on my belt easily.

How do you cock 1-handed with such rear sights?

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By carrying a revlolver.

Take the corner of the front of the slide (muzzle end), place it on the edge of a table and push. You can use the corner of a wall, a curb...

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I would not recommend this because there is a high risk of damaging your muzzle or sight if trying to do this during times of stress -especially if you are trying to rack on a wall or curb. Doing it this way also violates one of the 4-rules of gun safety by pointing the muzzle in unsafe directions.

2 good ways of one-hand manipulation drills would be:
1: use your belt or lip of your holster to catch the rear sight on to; or
2: take a knee and use the back of your shoe/boot heel as a solid surface to manipulate the slide.

Both these methods also helps keep the muzzle pointed down until you know where you want to point it.

In addition to Hilton Yam's 10-8 rear site, Yost also offers a good notched rear site. I use both types on my pistols.

Thank-you, I'm looking for an XD-9 and 1-handed racking is a feature I don't want to give up, but want low-light ability.

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I'm almost certain that the factory night sights on XDs are of the non-sloped variety.

I would not recommend this because there is a high risk of damaging your muzzle or sight if trying to do this during times of stress -especially if you are trying to rack on a wall or curb. Doing it this way also violates one of the 4-rules of gun safety by pointing the muzzle in unsafe directions.


If you've been shot and have one arm disabled do you really care if you damage your gun to stay alive. You can do this in a safe direction.

I am not strong enough to carry a table around with me.


You can do this on most any hard or semi hard surface that will not move, tree, car tire, etc.

I am not strong enough to carry a table around with me.

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Griz, you're going to have to try harder than this. If you want to live, you will carry the table. At a minimum, an end-table.

Seriously though, old GI sites are OK for kicking with the back of a bootheel.

Griz, you're going to have to try harder than this. If you want to live, you will carry the table. At a minimum, an end-table.


No table HM2PAC, a wine bucket is more portable!

Purely out of curiosity, Lucky, have you only one arm? Don't misunderstand, I can see the tacticality of this if an arm is disabled, missing, or injured, but you seem more than mildly interested in this feature/ability.

It's an interesting topic, and I have to admit one that I never even really thought about prior to this thread.

By the way, using your shoe is a bad habit to develop...because someday you'll be standing in mud and use your shoe, and then you'll have a barrel full of mud. Had it happen to a LEO friend of mine during a course of fire...he never used his shoe again.

I have Heinies on one Glock and Warrens on another. I am able to use both rear sights for one-hand mainpulations without issue, though I find the Warrens catch on the belt with less inward force.

How about kneeling say with your left knee down and pinching the slide behind your right knee pressing with the calf and the hamstring. The muzzle could be controlled by opening the angle of the cocking knee...
Just tried it and it felt kinda mushy but it works.
Joe

you know, it seems to me that this is kinda silly because the only time you need to rack your slide like that is if you lose an arm during a shootout of some sort and still have enough life in you to reload. and even if you can rack the slide without your other hand, how would you swap magazines? and how would you swap it fast enough? and wouldn't your slide lock back anyway after you're empty? it seems to me that getting a fresh mag in there would be the hardest with only one hand, and after that it's as simple as releasing the slide release with your shooting hand. now i know there are some small caliber autos and some certain european designs that don't lock back when empty, but if this is such a concern for you then you should probably just swith guns. any one-handed shooters wanna weigh in?

The new Kimber SIS models have a flat faced rear sight just for this purpose. They may sell the sights as a single item.

just get the BG to cock it for you and hand it back.

"hey hey hey hey, SIR! can you help me out here?"