# Ever put a slide on crooked?

**URL:** https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848
**Category:** Guns & Gear
**Created:** [February 26, 2021, 3:11am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848 "2021-02-26T03:11:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Scoutbob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/scoutbob/32/158375_2.png) [@Scoutbob](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Scoutbob)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 3:11am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/1 "2021-02-26T03:11:25Z")

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Have you ever put a slide on crooked? I know it sounds silly, but I got overly confident and put the slide on a too quick and got the slide jammed in a really weird way. I had to smack it with my palm some to get it loose (not saying this is the correct way). I think I smudged some polymer when I did it 🙃, BUT the gun has been %100 functional since!

Has anyone else done this? Just curious.

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### Author: ![BeanCounter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/beancounter/32/173526_2.png) [@BeanCounter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BeanCounter)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/2 "2021-02-26T03:22:13Z")

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No. I’m very deliberate about it.

Was it a Glock? 😉

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### Author: ![KillJoy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/killjoy/32/26868_2.png) [@KillJoy](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/KillJoy)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/3 "2021-02-26T03:23:13Z")

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Nah, he likes M&Ps too much.

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### Author: ![Karacal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/karacal/32/146742_2.png) [@Karacal](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Karacal)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/4 "2021-02-26T03:24:18Z")

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> [@BeanCounter](#):
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> Was it a Glock?

They can go on either way​😉

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/dd_dev/original/3X/7/6/7617598978d8d085c7349c8ce6a19ac4d57891ab.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Scoutbob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/scoutbob/32/158375_2.png) [@Scoutbob](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Scoutbob)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/5 "2021-02-26T03:29:00Z")

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> [@KillJoy](#):
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> Nah, he likes M&Ps too much.

Hey I like to get reliability for $100 less than a Glock with steal sights 🤷🏻‍♂️

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### Author: ![mattm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/mattm/32/178411_2.png) [@mattm](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/mattm)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/6 "2021-02-26T13:23:57Z")

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yeah, been there, done that. Sometimes the fix is easy, sometimes it’s a “youdumass” moment. Worst slide issue I had was on a ceracoted P80 G21 clone. Even putting the slide on properly meant using a mallet to get it off. Ended up grinding the rails a bit, lots of scotch brite and a wetstone…finally got her to run, and now I’ve got the first mag or two with back-to -battery issues, fixed with a tap of the thumb, then she’s warmed up and fine.  
Got a few glocks, and 5 P80’s among a few other pistols. Bought a .45 M&P 2.0C, 'cuz it was cheap, and to be honest, if I’d bought an M&P first, I’d have more of them. Good gun, only thing I don’t like is the angled slide, as it’s hard to use my sight tool on…and that front sight…I think it’s welded on 😝

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### Author: ![Scoutbob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/scoutbob/32/158375_2.png) [@Scoutbob](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Scoutbob)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/7 "2021-02-26T19:06:54Z")

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> [@mattm](#):
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> yeah, been there, done that. Sometimes the fix is easy, sometimes it’s a “youdumass” moment.

Glad I’m not alone 😂.

The M&P sights are a pain. I just pay my local gunsmith since I’d rather hand him $40 than cuss and damage my sights trying to get them perfectly aligned 😂.

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### Author: ![mattm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/mattm/32/178411_2.png) [@mattm](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/mattm)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/ever-put-a-slide-on-crooked/50848/8 "2021-02-28T12:58:39Z")

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I seem to have a preference to drive myself nuts doing projects I perhaps would have been better off handing to others. OTOH, just dealt with a paint crew who took 6 weeks to do a 10 day job, and only did half of it before I let them know time was up…and then there’s that blissful feeling of “unscrewing up” a project 🤣