This...If that is bad for your gun, then so are the thousands of explosions going off inside your chamber and your slide violently reciprocating over and over and over again.
Me and a friend were talking about this earlier and i wanted to know everyone's opinion on Releasing the slide on an empty chamber. Is it bad for the gun, or are people just worried too much and babying their guns?
...or are people just worried too much and babying their guns?
If that is bad for your gun, then so are the thousands of explosions going off inside your chamber and your slide violently reciprocating over and over and over again.
I've just always been in the habit of easing a slide closed when there's not a round loading. No real reason or justification. It's just how I do it. I don't like the sound of a slide closing on an empty chamber, but oh how I love the sound of chambering a round.