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KenW. · 05-04-2008, 09:32 AM

Loading an individual round straight into the chamber can be hard on INTERNAL extractors. Externals don't mind. Same goes for hi-powers.

The only time my slide closes on an empty chamber is for a function check after I clean and reassemble one of mine.

If you ride the slide down it may not go completely into battery, esp with a worn recoil spring.

charlie.45 · 05-04-2008, 09:55 AM

assuming while you were pulling the slide back and all if the magazine is empty it will catch and stay open. drop the mag pull the slide again it closes.if there is ammo in the mag it will chamber a round and fire until mag is empty then lock back again.

05-04-2008, 09:55 AM	#12
charlie.45 XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maumee,OH Posts: 1,093	assuming while you were pulling the slide back and all if the magazine is empty it will catch and stay open. drop the mag pull the slide again it closes.if there is ammo in the mag it will chamber a round and fire until mag is empty then lock back again. __________________ Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry

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05-04-2008, 09:32 AM	#11
KenW. XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 105	Loading an individual round straight into the chamber can be hard on INTERNAL extractors. Externals don't mind. Same goes for hi-powers. The only time my slide closes on an empty chamber is for a function check after I clean and reassemble one of mine. If you ride the slide down it may not go completely into battery, esp with a worn recoil spring.