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Originally Posted by StrikeFreedom
When you put the cocking/charging handle on the left side like this, how do you remove the slide with the scope mount in the way? Or is it screwed on?
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Originally Posted by ShelledPants
Notice the compensator, if he wanted to remove the slide, he's going to have to break out an allen key, what's a few more screws to remove the scope mount?  |
Actually, it's probably more of a matter of preference. But disassembly is still disassembly.
On most optics setups the rear sight would block the slide from coming off as normal. Most comps don't affect pulling slide off while the side mount is still attached or not...they just go on as a normal barrel setup would.
If the shooter is a right handed person...with the cocking handle on the left side there's two nice advantages
1. The handle is in a nice position for a quick snatch with the off hand if you need to work the slide
2. Some courses of fire start with the pistol, unloaded, on a table. The left side cocking handle will "prop" the pistol up off the table a bit...which gives a right handed person a nice "snatch" to pick up and grab the pistol since their fingers can get under/around the grip right away. Then after the mag is in, the cocking handle is on the "right" side for a quick rack.
Mine...is on the right side...not that it works better there for manipulating things...it's just so I can pull the slide off without taking the scope mount off the frame. There's not a lot of metal thickness for the screw threads...and working them loose can't be good for anything.
Tys