Effects of pulling slide too far back...

[RichieRich954]

Just wondering if there are any adverse effects of pulling slide too far back with laoded magazine inserted.

Would it prevent bullets from sitting flat against the back wall of magazine?

 

[RichieRich954]

Just wondering if there are any adverse effects of pulling slide too far back with laoded magazine inserted.

Would it prevent bullets from sitting flat against the back wall of magazine?

 

[at-home-daddy]

I can't imagine it could cause a problem. For that matter, *can* you pull a slide "too far back?" I can't imagine that, either...I mean, it does effectively stop at some point.

 

[handgunner356]

No, the slide closing will often push the top round forward in the mag.

 

[fiasconva]

I can't imagine you'd be able to pull it any farther back than firing it would. That's a lot more pressure than you can put on it.

 

[cshoff]

Originally posted by fiasconva:
I can't imagine you'd be able to pull it any farther back than firing it would. That's a lot more pressure than you can put on it.

That would be my thought as well. A full-power round is going to drive the slide back much farther than a person could pull it under normal circumstances.

 

[Spotteddog]

After 1 or 2 hundred hard ball rounds fired off in a gun with a worn recoil spring (or too low a rate "softball" recoil spring?) you might pick up some frame batter on a steel frame. More so with an aluminum frame, and even more/more so, with the earliest aluminum frames. But the dude would have to have forearms like Popeye, to do any damage by hand!

 

[38-44HD45]

Originally posted by at-home-daddy:
For that matter, *can* you pull a slide "too far back?"

No.

 

[shawn mccarver]

Originally posted by RichieRich954:
Just wondering if there are any adverse effects of pulling slide too far back with laoded magazine inserted.

Would it prevent bullets from sitting flat against the back wall of magazine?

Huh? I doubt there is any way you can pull it back any further than it goes in normal full speed operation.

Bullets don't sit "flat against the back wall of the magazine." The bullet end of the cartridge faces toward the front wall of the magazine.

Before you jump to the conclusion that I am trying to be a smart aleck, I have seen inexperienced shooters load magazines with the rounds facing rearward. When you use specific terminology such as "bullet," I assume you mean what you say.

If you mean the case should sit against the back wall of the magazine, that is correct, and there is a certain amount of movement when the pistol is operated that you should not worry about.

Occasionally, in some pistols, the top round in the mag is left partially forward when the pistol feeds a new round into the chamber. You can check for this by dropping the magazine after the chamber is loaded to make sure the top round in the magazine is pushed back.

Perhaps I do not understand your question. . . .

 

[sasu]

If you insert a loaded magazine and pull the slide back far enough, the pistol will chamber a round and thus make the gun extremely dangerous. If you open the slide just a little bit, the gun does not chamber a round and thus remains safe.

This is the only difference I can see between different slide "pull lengths".