Don't drop the slide on an empty chamber (Mas Ayoob video)

[kidneyboy]

Goateed gunslingers?

Let’s add double - breasted buttoned pockets and cargo pants to the image…
And, those shoes. What on earth do you call those quasi - work shoes they wear?

When you become a caricature of yourself; you’re not really you anymore. You’ve morphed into a distillation of who you used to be.

 

[JTQ]

...it's starting to look as though they're running out of topics for their YouTube videos and recycling some pretty basic stuff.

They are, but based on some of the responses in this thread, it is still "news" to some folks, so there is value to the videos.

I still recall a comment from a WilsonCombatRep on another forum who said 50% of their returns for service are fixed by simply lubricating the guns properly.

You'd think with gun forums, YouTube, and podcasts available, some basic information would be more readily known, because you no longer have to learn by trial and error or word of mouth, but perhaps not.

 

[Outlaw75]

As much respect as I have for both Mas and Ken, it's starting to look as though they're running out of topics for their YouTube videos and recycling some pretty basic stuff.

There's some truth to this. Hackathon and Wilson did a video about the same topic 2 or 3 years ago. The Brownells video I posted upthread was a response to the furor that caused.

 

[DeepSouth]

You know I have to admit I drop the slide on and empty chamber whenever I want, don’t really give it a second thought. Can it eventually break things and cause premature failure? Probably, but so what?
Did they quit making 1911 parts and know one tell me?

I mean really, shooting a gun will eventually break it.

Of the things I worry about this is really, really near the bottom of the barrel.

I guess if I had a safe queen I’d baby it like that but oldest 1911 I have was made in the 90’s, they’re shooters.

If I had one I carried I might not drop on empty, but honestly I probably would some. Being as I’ve never seen, or even heard of it actually causing a failure other than on the interweb.

I don’t flick revolver cylinders, that breaks stuff that matters. I’m not an animal.

 

[9mmepiphany]

In reading some of the comments, which have since been removed, about gun pulpits above, I'm guessing that some members are overlooking one of our basic Forum Rules

Don't insult other forum members

It isn't a hard concept, just be polite

 

[Targa]

Well before the internet was around to tell me that it was bad all I had to do was release the slide on an empty gun once and realize that I was not doing the gun any favors.