Glocks and other pistols

**David Craik** · 05-01-2011, 09:09

I wouldn't recommend it. Good way to shoot your own hand during a flinch response. If you happen to come upon someone and you grab or squeeze with your extended hand sympathetic reaction may cause you to squeeze the trigger.

Unlikely for me, as the gun and off-hand are on different lateral planes. It's for distance, not for grabbing and squeezing. That sort of activity should have been left back in the bedroom. But, you could maintain a tight Weaver if you prefer, just as good. Or don't flinch

Actually you can in a modified version of this. With the both hands and the weapon tucked into your sternum, pistol parallel to the ground.

Well Tony, that isn't so much a modified version as it is an entirely different stance. It isn't isoceles nor is the pistol extended. If an autoloading pistol is "tucked into your sternum" the possibility exists that the slide could strike your sternum and short-cycle after your first shot, promptly jamming.

**TonyU** · 05-01-2011, 09:19

Originally Posted by David Craik

Well Tony, that isn't so much a modified version as it is an entirely different stance. It isn't isoceles nor is the pistol extended.

True dat! I figured for simplicity I would use the same descriptor.

Would you stop with the editing after I quoted you!

Originally Posted by David Craik

If an autoloading pistol is "tucked into your sternum" the possibility exists that the slide could strike your sternum and short-cycle after your first shot, promptly jamming.

Nope, never gets that close.

**David Craik** · 05-01-2011, 11:55

You can't quote me too quick after I just posted...you may be quoting phantom words. Patience, grasshopper. The old mind don't work so quickly anymore...

Nope, never gets that close.

We must have a different definition of "tucked in" then. My PT-92 throws the slide back at least an inch past the beavertail, with recoil the back edge of the slide would go even further because the pistol itself will be driven back.

**TonyU** · 05-01-2011, 13:19

Originally Posted by David Craik

You can't quote me too quick after I just posted...you may be quoting phantom words. Patience, grasshopper. The old mind don't work so quickly anymore...

Old mind? Sheesh, you're younger than I am.

We must have a different definition of "tucked in" then. My PT-92 throws the slide back at least an inch past the beavertail, with recoil the back edge of the slide would go even further because the pistol itself will be driven back.

Well, we're going have to go over some of this over some stogies.