{"id":8982,"date":"2025-10-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:28:43","slug":"working-slides-more-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/working-slides-more-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"WORKING SLIDES MORE EASILY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The semiautomatic pistol is the most popular handgun today, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation tells us that some 26 million new gun owners have joined our ranks since 2020.&nbsp; Many of them are a bit short on hand\/upper body strength and have trouble racking the slides on autoloading pistols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, we have a new generation of them expressly designed for the slides to be easier to retract\u2026and just as fortunately, they have us old farts who can show them how to outsmart the older designs, too. Here\u2019s a video on that topic, courtesy of our friends at The Polite Society Podcast:<\/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<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JLx24EVvyg0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guns 101 - Weak Hands Strong Springs with Massad Ayoob\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLx24EVvyg0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JLx24EVvyg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semiautomatic pistol is the most popular handgun today, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation tells us that some 26 million new gun owners have joined our ranks since 2020.&nbsp; Many of them are a bit short on hand\/upper body strength and have trouble racking the slides on autoloading pistols. Fortunately, we have a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8982","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\/8982","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=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}