It depends if I'm handling someone elses gun I release the slide by hand, My own guns I really don't have an issue with it. I have more important issues to worry about than whether dry fire is going to explode my pistols.
Again, if you let the slide run forward after the last round has fired have you not slammed it home on an empty chamber?A 1911 Gunsmith told me it would mess up the sear, and you can dry fire a 1911 all you want as long as you hand rack the slide.
The government worker that wrote that is stupid. He know nothing of guns or the accessories that are required to make them work. Merely a paper pusher.Yeah... the original 1911 government manual actually mentioned "clip" IIRC.
There's a thread about this somewhere.
That whole pistol was a POS. Walther makes a good gun, but when S&W put their name on it, it was junk.
Dry firing the 1911 is not a problem since the firing pin is spring loaded. If the sear is damaged, it is not due to the slide going forward on an empty chamber. Sometimes myths just persist.
When firing, your finger has the trigger held to the rear and the sear is disengaged from the hammer hooks. Those two parts mate again when you release the trigger forward. It seems to me.....
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