One other (rather silly yeah, but it did happen) reason I like using the take down lever is I had an incident one time where I was taking the slide off by pulling the trigger and for some reason the slide popped forward with such force it surprised me and I dropped my slide onto the table. Luckily it didn't fly off further and hit the ground and mar the slide or bend something important. Usually it just pops forward a little bit but this time my slide just took off like a rocket. weird I know, but now I always use the little yellow take down lever. I like it better.