I’m sympathetic to elements of his argument, so not to put words in his mouth but I think he might say that commonality of method is more valuable than speed or efficiency of a technique that has very little practical value.
I personally agree with the last part but not the first. People who worry about commonality have too many guns.
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I think the whole topic is mainly a selling point for articles. The P7, which I loved and hated, combined the slide release with the lever that has to be squeezed to in order to fire. Doing anything other than squeezing the lever and driving on is ridiculous. In the era when I mostly shot the P7, and 1911 less, I used the appropriate method of slide release on each without ill effect.
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I too use the slide release when I need to. I run a Gen 4 G19 left handed and it is still notably faster than grabbing the slide. Also, and I’m sure I’ll get tard and feathered for this one but, my 19 does this great thing IMO. When I put a little extra force when inserting the mag the slide automatically drops. Yes I know it’s not “properly” functioning but over thousands and thousands of reloads it’s never caused an issue and damn it’s fast!
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With a gun that has a slide mounted decocker and safety, using the overhead grip without being mindful of the safety's presence may lead to accidentally activating the safety...
Every type of firearm is a bit different. In order to shoot one pistol well, you inevitably need to adapt your shooting technique for that firearm. Grip size and length differences, trigger pull differences, different location of controls mean how you grip the gun, the placement of your trigger finger on the trigger, etc. may change between one gun and another. The solution to this dilemma is to focus on how to use your chosen type of firearm as efficiently as possible, and to stop switching guns all the time. If you need to be equally efficient with a Glock or a P7 because you don't know which one you'll end up grabbing at 2 A.M., that's the root problem and not the different slide releases between the two pistols.
Genuine question, if commonality uber alles is a massive concern, why have different pistols? If that's the approach you choose then you really should only ever be shooting one gun, possibly in different sizes.
I think shit like that is overblown personally and use and recommend the slide stop even between different pistols. but if you're that concerned about having no cognitive ability under stress, then you shouldn't have a collection of guns you should have an armoury of them (with apologies to Chuck P for stealing his concept)
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