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AndyC wrote:Find whatever works for you and use it.

As a lefty, that has been the history of my gun ownership.

I started using the "over the top" method because I'm left handed, and I owned striker-fired guns without ambidextrous slide releases. Plus, some manufacturers specifically warn against using the slide stop to release the slide into battery. Adapting myself to a "manual" slide release procedure overcame the differences in the manual of arms from platform to platform, since either "slingshotting" or "over the top" work universally for all semiautos. And even on the one pistol I own which does have an ambidextrous slide stop - an M&P45 - I still find it easier to use the "over the top" method than to use the slide stop release.