This video shows a USPSA shooter load a Glock 35 and rack the slide with just one hand. He uses the inertia of the slide to rack it. It is very impressive.
The shooter claims that the Glock is stock standard and that their have been no modifications to recoil spring.
How long till we see this in an over-the-top action movie?
Many thanks to Advocate for the links and slow-mo video.
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Wow. Big improvement over the catch-the-rear-sight-on-your-belt technique. I’m told my XDs are Glock clones so I wonder if they’ll work…probably helps if you’re using a 5″+ barrel so you have much more slide mass.
In any case — finally, real shooting meets Hollywood shooting! I bet dollars to donuts Daniel Craig learns this move some time in 2010.
I can’t view the video at work so I can’t tell exactly how it’s being done but was told that one of the reasons Glock refused to make their slides smoother in the front is so you can snag them on furniture to rack the slide with one hand. The sub compacts are the only Glocks with a rounded nose on the slide for this reason. Of course that could have just been more internet ninja bullshit.
Jesse, they working fine here. He is using the slides inertia. He pushes the frame forward and the slide inertia holds it back.
Little more complex than that, Steve… he’s yanking the gun backwards as hard as he can, then as suddenly as possible punching the pistol straight forward.
Since it’s a longslide the extra mass helps. I can’t foresee this working on many other pistols, *maybe* a 1911 with a soft recoil spring or a Beretta PX4 (they’re fairly lightly sprung).
Could develop a little tungsten weight that rides a solid steel guide rod on the outside of the slide… wouldn’t affect slide mass during firing, but would allow this kind of “gunfu punch!” operation without as much force/speed required of the… uh… puncher.
Just found another video of someone else doing the same thing … That’s really cool !
http://www.youtube.com/user/midwestshooter
There are several vids of various people doing this on YouTube
DrStrangegun, ah, I did not notice that. Makes sense.
It could almost make dual wielding handguns a viable combat method, as it saves a lot of time on the reloading.
Now to design a mag holder that would hold the mags for you so you can put them in more easily one handed…
I have never seen anyone in person do this with a stock glock. I tried it for about half an hour at home a while back with snap caps, and all I came away with was a sore elbow and shoulder.
It looks like he catches the rear sight on his shirt. There is no possible way to cycle a stock handgun with arm momentum.
Ty – I looked closer wondering the same..The slide starts moving back before it gets to his shirt.. it’s possible alright.. practice for form and fast twitch muscle development to get enough speed in the pull-back, stop, push-forward motions
another angle of the same video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xfYtZOz81c
this would have been a perfect angle if the video was centered, but as it is, you can’t see really anything more.
yep, the first time he showed it to me in person i was like WHOA!
I was under the impression that the long Glock slides are machined in order to match the mass of the standard versions.
I can’t move my G17 slide back more than a couple of mm with this technique.
That slide must have been modified. I have both a 5″ tactical XD in .45 and a PX4 and that *trick* does not work. Neither gun’s slide is that fluid.
Ev’rybody loves gun fu fightiiiing…
Steve,
Check out another impossible method in my newest blog post.
A Stock Glock my ass.
I call bullshit on this one. I tried this with my Stock Glock 17L which should be heavier than a G35 and I couldn’t make this happen with One round and then NO ROUNDS in the magazine. Striker cocked, striker uncocked. Weight on the rail, naked rail. Lubed it up, no change. I couldn’t get the stock pistol to cycle far enough to cock the pistol without ANY magazine in it. You can hear it trying to unlock, but there’s no way they have stock springs in their guns. Period.
I refuse to believe that these guys are so fast or simply so much stronger than I am that they are able to do this with lighter guns than mine that are bone stock with consistency. This is a magic trick, emphasis on trick.
I reviewed the video carefully and I have not seen the slide going all the way to the back. This is a trick and I think that it was a round already on the chamber. My humble opinion…
I live in Ga. I couldn’t tell which city or county this is supposed to be, but I will check it out.