{"id":8420,"date":"2024-07-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:21:08","slug":"slam-it-loaded-ease-it-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/slam-it-loaded-ease-it-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAM IT LOADED, EASE IT EMPTY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back I shared a video here that I did for Wilson Combat as to why, when the pistol is empty, you should ease the slide forward rather than slamming it down. Slamming it is ruinous to sear engagements on 1911s, and on any pistol adds wear to the locking lugs.Here\u2019s a fellow on YouTube who quotes Nighthawk Custom as saying the same thing:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"8 DOs and DON&#039;Ts With Your 1911.... Right from the Nighthawk&#039;s Beak. (1911 fan MUST WATCH )\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/km6ccZbJV58?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/km6ccZbJV58?si=T-lgNul_Pq74eYps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nighthawk Custom is a premier builder of 1911 pistols. They\u2019re experts who know what they\u2019re talking about.&nbsp;&nbsp;The same is true in spades of Ken Hackathorn and Bill Wilson, who have said the same thing on the Wilson Combat channel, and a couple of their star shooters who have said the same thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ain\u2019t just me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I teach \u201cslam it loaded (to guarantee full chambering of live cartridges from the magazine) but ease it empty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I shared a video here that I did for Wilson Combat as to why, when the pistol is empty, you should ease the slide forward rather than slamming it down. Slamming it is ruinous to sear engagements on 1911s, and on any pistol adds wear to the locking lugs.Here\u2019s a fellow on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}