Leaked: HK VP9B - Button Mag Release

[Peally]

To each their own, but on an AR15 the mag release is where you keep your trigger finger when you want to keep your finger off of the trigger. On a pistol with a paddle magazine release, the release is close to the trigger, and using your finger to press the paddle is similar to pressing the trigger.

Just like a BAD lever... it's not an issue.

[Jeff S.]

Just like a BAD lever... it's not an issue.

Regardless of whether it’s an issue, I do not think it’s objective to compare using one’s trigger finger to activate the magazine release on an AR15 to a paddle release on a pistol. My (limited) understanding of the BAD lever is that it’s still actuated in front of the trigger with a straight finger, so I wouldn’t compare its activation to a paddle mag release either (actuated behind the trigger with a hooked finger).

[Wondering Beard]

I’ve never understood how people can shoot AR15’s and use their trigger finger to press the magazine release but somehow on a pistol with a paddle magazine release it’s too much to ask.

Because the mag release on the AR is ahead of the trigger guard and trigger. So the trigger finger is moving forward and thus in the opposite direction of the movement required to press the trigger.

On the HK, the trigger finger is moving backward, in the direction of the trigger and in the direction required to make the trigger work. The NDs that have happened while using the trigger finger to release the mag have been due, to the best of my understanding, with the trigger finger coming across and touching the trigger. A lot of people manage to do just fine with that movement, but personally I don't like moving my trigger finger that close to the trigger in an often tense situation (competition or fight). For me, the thumb works well or the middle finger.

[YVK]

Because the mag release on the AR is ahead of the trigger guard and trigger. So the trigger finger is moving forward and thus in the opposite direction of the movement required to press the trigger.

That, in addition to safety that we're taught to engage before manipulating anything other than trigger on a loaded AR.

[Greg]

Buttons are what God and John Moses Browning intended for us to use.

Anything else came from the fevered brows of savages, socialists and scumbags.

[CanineCombatives]

Amen!

[raks]

Buttons are what God and John Moses Browning intended for us to use.

Anything else came from the fevered brows of savages, socialists and scumbags.

Yeah, I love the safety button on my 1911's.

[GJM]

Handled a button VP 9 this afternoon, loved the button mag release!

[Duke]

Handled a button VP 9 this afternoon, loved the button mag release!

Anyone spend any amount of time with these since this thread was last updated?

[GJM]

Anyone spend any amount of time with these since this thread was last updated?

The VP9-B is all I have shot for the last six weeks.