Educate Me - Slide lockback

VtCO · May 19th, 2008, 04:27 PM

Try as I might I cannot figure it out on my own. How does my slide automatically lockback when the magazine is empty on my SA XD?

I've been able to examine and figure out just about everything that the weapon does, but I cannot figure how this works.

Educate me please.

MattLarson · May 19th, 2008, 04:30 PM

There is a little tab that protrudes from the slide lock that engages the magazine follower when the magazine is empty. On most pistols, it is on the front left corner of the magazine well, near the top.

Matt

VtCO · May 19th, 2008, 04:32 PM

Yeah I see that tab, but it just sits right in the notch cut out on the magazine. I know it must be responsible, but I cannot figure out the mechanics of it. Driving me nuts!

Now I got it. The base plate on the magazine pushes up that tab.

MattLarson · May 19th, 2008, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VtCO

Now I got it. The base plate on the magazine pushes up that tab.

Bingo!

Matt

Bob The Great · May 19th, 2008, 09:52 PM

If you want to see it in action, insert a blank magazine, lock the slide back, and then while holding the slide open, work the slide lock up and down with your thumb while watching the mag follower, and you'll see it move up and down.

rocky · May 19th, 2008, 10:26 PM

Actually it is the follower in the mag that engages the slide lock. The base plate holds the spring and follower in the mag body at the bottom of the mag.

May 19th, 2008, 04:27 PM	#1
VtCO Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arizona Posts: 77	Educate Me - Slide lockback Try as I might I cannot figure it out on my own. How does my slide automatically lockback when the magazine is empty on my SA XD? I've been able to examine and figure out just about everything that the weapon does, but I cannot figure how this works. Educate me please.

May 19th, 2008, 04:30 PM	#2
MattLarson Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Central Florida Posts: 2,491	There is a little tab that protrudes from the slide lock that engages the magazine follower when the magazine is empty. On most pistols, it is on the front left corner of the magazine well, near the top. Matt __________________ Hope is not a plan.

May 19th, 2008, 09:52 PM	#5
Bob The Great Distinguished Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Slidell, LA Posts: 1,452	If you want to see it in action, insert a blank magazine, lock the slide back, and then while holding the slide open, work the slide lock up and down with your thumb while watching the mag follower, and you'll see it move up and down. __________________ "A well-educated electorate, being necessary to the continuance of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed." Is this hard to understand? Then why does it get unintelligible to some people when 5 little words are changed?

May 19th, 2008, 10:26 PM	#6
rocky Senior Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: MI Posts: 11,771	Actually it is the follower in the mag that engages the slide lock. The base plate holds the spring and follower in the mag body at the bottom of the mag. __________________ "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson Nemo Me Impune Lacesset Link to my kydex builds:http://rocknloadkydex.blogspot.com/

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May 19th, 2008, 04:32 PM	#3
VtCO Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arizona Posts: 77	Yeah I see that tab, but it just sits right in the notch cut out on the magazine. I know it must be responsible, but I cannot figure out the mechanics of it. Driving me nuts! Now I got it. The base plate on the magazine pushes up that tab.