In article <1992Nov17.023032.19198@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
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#Last weekend, I visited Trader's gun shop in San Leandro (CA) and I thought
#I saw a better alternative. They had a Springfield Armory clone going
#for $700, the salesguy promised target gun level accuracy...however, when
#I slid the empty magazine in and tried to work the slide release, it
#didn't work; we had to pop the magazine out a little, release the slide
#and then slide the magazine back in. Is that a Springfield Armory quirk,
#a 1911 Colt/clone quirk or a quirk of that particular gun? If it's a
#Colt/clone quirk, that would tend to rule out my getting a 1911 COlt/clone.
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B
This is a non-problem. It is much harder to release the slide stop with an
empty magazine in than with no mag or a full mag in on most, if not all,
automatic pistols. This is because the part of the magazine follower that
engages the slide stop to push it into engagement with the slide when the
magazine is empty and the follower is at the top is still bearing on the slide stop. Therefore your right thumb is working against the magazine spring.
What you want to worry about is how easy it is for you to engage the slide
