Its really small and is practically flush with the side of the frame. The extended one makes releasing the slide much easier.
No, I typically pull it back once I have the magazine loaded and it takes care of the rest. But if I'm cleaning it or putting it away, I will use the slide stop. Sometimes I also use the slide stop.
One of the shooting drills we do is loading 3 mags with 3 rounds, shoot the rounds, drop mag, reload and repeat. You should be able to do all of that with your right hand using only the left to load the mag but if you have the factory release on the Glock it is hard to do with your right thumb especially if the slide spring is tight and you have smaller hands. I changed the one on my wife's and liked it so much I did mine. In my opinion it is a great upgrade for $20 bucks
I personally don't like doing this because it sets a bad habit. Under stress I've slammed a magazine into the pistol and the slide was released and when I first did it I held the gun and thought wtf? I don't use the slide stop for anything other than holding the slide. I always rack the slide no matter what. Once I get another Glock I would like to test it with that extended stop since I don't like fucking with my carry guns.
So I made a lazy attempt to sell this stock as-is, unfinished, and nothing happened. Not a big surprise there. My plan B was to go ahead and finish and checker the stock so it would be a lot more attractive to buy, and I'm doing that now. Was feeling undecided over what to do regarding a buttplate and before I knew it, I was fishing through my scrap wood pieces and slicing off some chunks of ebony to do this: 5/16" thick for the grip cap and 3/8" thick on the buttplate. I'll re-contour the grip cap to match how it was before, however the butt will be further shaped and finally checkered. In hindsight, it was really stupid of me to stick the square ebony pieces onto the stock before doing any contouring because now it is a much bigger pain in the ass to do so without messing up the rest of the stock. Oh well- I'll chalk it up as a learning lesson. I haven't checkered ebony before (or doing a buttplate) and tried scratching a few lines onto a block. Turns out it cuts really cleanly- a nice surprise. Not sure if I'll just replicate the factory style checkering on the stock or do some bad ass one-off work, but this ebony buttplate will look cool regardless.
I sent the gun into Glock last Friday. My buddy was telling me the gun had some FTE/FTF issues. They looked over the gun and called me today and told me the frame had a crack in it. And that is why its having the issues. He told me they are going to completely replace the lower half of the gun for free, but it will be with a brand new gen 3 frame and inner parts. No issue there. I asked about the slide and they will refinish it for $45. And it will be sent back directly to me within 2 weeks. I'd say that a hell of a deal for $150.
Finally took a few pics of my M&P 10... The rifle... Spoiler Nikon Buckmasters 3-9x40 Spoiler MagPul ACS-L stock Spoiler Troy Claymore muzzle brake Spoiler
Nice rifle. I wonder how much Magpul is raking in these days. I rarely ever see a rifle without at least one Magpul accessory on it these days.
Now the ebony pieces are shaped and sanded... and I'm glad it's done and over with. Shaping the rear end of the grip cap with the toe line of the stock so close was a major pain in the ass, and I've spent a couple extra hours just cleaning up accidental scratches and gouges caused by it. Spoiler
I walked out of there with my full brick of Tac22 and daily visits shall begin NOW. However I personally don't consider it hoarding, since I'll actually shoot the stuff.
That looks like my local Cabela's on any given day of the week. Is that scare still affecting the rest of the country?
Just .22. Remington is one of the big three ammo producers and has stamped out 1.8 BILLION rounds of .22 this year with orders for .22 placed through 2015 that basically keep the .22 lines running nonstop. Expect to see .22 WM sometime in early 2016.
My neighbor just bought a Remington 770 .270 brand new from a local Cabela's with a package scope for $250. The thing has some decent features but is largely a bare minimum, engineered to be cheap rifle. I hope it functions better with live ammo than my snap caps, because a little feed/function test with the magazine last night was not good- when rounds are freed from the single-stack magazine (which blows to load and always hangs up when inserting), they have lots of room to flop around and the bolt didn't always want to close (wtf). Trigger wasn't the worst and looks like it could be a standard Remington 700 trigger, which isn't bad. The receiver tang is plastic and soft enough to easily bind up when removing and inserting the bolt, and the rear takedown screw is something like a paltry #8 size screw (tiny). I appreciate my Winchester M70 even more now. We'll see how it shoots tomorrow night. Anyways, this is why you should carefully inspect new guns. When I pulled the stock off this rifle to inspect the barreled action, I found a fair amount of what I am pretty certain is bluing salt residue leaked out of a takedown screw hole. If left untouched, that would've formed a nice big fat blob of rust with the screw frozen solid. Nice quality control, Remington.
Everything I've read about the 770 boils down to "Put down the rifle and step away. Replace with a 700."
If I were rifle shopping with him last night, I'd be repeating that over and over again. There's a decent but used Winchester 70 .30/06 with a Leupold 3-9x scope in the racks at a local gun shop for only $600, and I am urging my friends on the market for a deer rifle to buy it already.