M&P 2.0 slide release

[BB213]

Just bought an M&P 2.0 but have found the right-side (I'm LH) slide release to be IMPOSSIBLE to use (though the left side is easy peasy) in spite of some rental 1.0's being fully functional. In your experience does the slide stop/release get easier to operate over time, or is the 2.0 harder? I realize the 2.0 hasn't been on the market very long so there isn't much time to know how it will behave if "broken in" but what do you think?

 

[Ranger17]

S&W considers that to be a slide stop, not a release so often users find it difficult to use the button to release the slide. The sling shot method works well, trying to use the stop button not always so much.
Some do use the button to release, and perhaps over time it may become easier to do so. But if the gun is new I'd maybe suggest to just sling shot it and go enjoy some range time.....

 

[AZ115]

I'm also a Lefty. Found it quite difficult to "Release" the slide on my 2.0 FDE only with my left hand thumb. I found that when the slide is locked back and I insert a new mag with my right hand, I also use my right hand middle/index finger tip to help "Release" the slide from the other side.

I also use this technique with guns that only have a slide release for "Righties".

A little practice and I've gotten quite good at it. It can be done safely and quickly when loading a new magazine.

S&W did designed the 2.0 series slide to be pulled back and released after a new magazine is loaded.

 

[My9]

The newly designed slide stop with detent makes it more difficult to use as a slide release.

 

[Dpris]

S&W does not intend it to be a slide release.
Same deal with Ruger's American pistol.
Denis

 

[brettskywalker]

Use the slingshot method. Its easier & is how the gun is intended to be operated. When you use the slide stop as a slide release there is a chance the round being picked up out of the magazine will not go into full battery. The slide will carry more momentum using the slingshot method

 

[bigfutz]

M&P 2.0 slide release

Slide stop, not slide release.

 

[Dpris]

The new slide lock was designed to make it more positive, preventing auto-closing when a loaded mag's inserted.
The result was a loss of ambidextrous-osity.
Denis

 

[Ratfink2u]

Sling-shot slide

Greetings from beautiful eastern Orygun...
I have recently discovered the Shield line-up and do love the weapons. Accurate, dependable and easy to grip, breakdown and maintain. THAT being said, the slide-lock vs slide release is an issue for me. Silly that the manufacture would remove said slide-release and require the shooter to "sling-shot" a loaded firearm.
Argue this all you want but when you do a combat load and your on target, you loose all of your sight picture to reach over and manipulate the slide to chamber a round.
Design flaw if you ask me. I've been in L/E and a cert Range Master from Calif and Oregon and would NEVER teach a student to reach over the top of their weapon to preform this. Eyes on target always because things tend to change while your busy playing with your "slide-lock". My rant.. I just file them down and make them modified into a slide-release.

 

[Houdini5150]

I am a n00b with guns but from what I understand with the M&P it is a slide stop not release. I mean sure you can do it but it is sort of stiff and I been practicing the slingshot method anyway.

 

[CB3]

Slide stop, not slide release.

And, by the same logic, a mag release is not a mag stop. Or is it?

Terminology is less important than function. Releasing a locked back slide using the STOP is an acceptable and often preferred method for closing the slide. It sometimes requires some adjustment to the lever to work easily.

Let’s not be narrow minded. It’s fine to choose the method you prefer, but to state or infer it is the only (approved) method is beyond silly.

 

[labloverva]

The slide release or whatever you want to call it on the right side of my M&P9 is non functional! I cannot get it to release the slide.
The left side works fine.
I emailed S&W and the said to return the pistol to them. I have not done so.

 

[Ratfink2u]

I just think this is a bad habit to "learn" in muscle memory tactics. Picture this; You're in a life or death gun fight and drop your mag to do a tactical reload, keeping your target picture, you now reach over the top of your gun and do a "sling-shot" reload. Where are your eyes? On target? No, they're on your gun. Split second you say? Maybe, but things change and targets move in that time. Seconds matter! With the slide release you can practice keeping your eyes and weapon on target, drop the mag, insert a fresh one and VIOLA! You're back in the fight and never took your eyes off the target. MHO

 

[hardluk1]

I learned to do Tap Rap bang drills 40 years ago with a 1911 and never use a slide hold open to release the slide do to those drills .

Also never had to look at what I'm doing even when you need to drop a mag during a jamb to insert new mag !!