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Originally Posted by NotME
Over the top, unless you have spent a ton of time learning and practicing something else. It uses more gross motor skills. If you're doing IA drills or anything where you're training and building muscle memory for combat skills, gross motor skills are always better because they're easier and you can still do them after you're hopped up so high on adrenaline that you couldn't take a whiz without getting your boots wet! When you get that chemical cocktail that your body dumps into your system, you lose your fine motor skills, and things like switches and levers can become major obstacles!
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I recently had an instructor comment on the loss of fine motor skills under stress. His attitude was that proper trigger manipulation is a fine motor skill. With proper training people still have good trigger manipulation under stress. If you train yourself to use the slide release then its not a big deal. He used the slide release when shooting in competitions because it was faster for him. When training for combat he used the weak hand over the top. The problem I can see with that is if you stress out and your body takes a second to choose which one to use.
I personally use the weak hand over the top simply because its only one skill my body needs to remember. Anytime I need to manipulate the slide its done the same way. Thats the way my Dad trained me and later how the pistol classes I've taken trained me. I just took a carbine class and found myself instinctively running the charging handle on speed loads when it ran dry instead of using the bold release. The class taught to hit the bolt release and if that didn't work go to the charging handle. The instructor saw me not use it a few times and asked me if I even realized it. I didn't. It was just so ingrained in my head to get the magazine seated and then rack it. So I guess in theory when I'm under stress thats what I'll do without thinking about it and it will work.
I guess to sum it all up: I use over the top with weak hand.