I don't know anything about the guy except that he's from Alaska and has a thing for 10mm, and I've found his videos about those to be informative.
It's not so much the technique that concerns me, but rather the manner in which the safety mechanism on this gun appears to function mechanically. I'd have to actually take one apart to see for sure what's going on, but it really skeeves me out that he was able to partially retract the slide AND partially cock the hammer by pulling the trigger with the safety on. That tells me that the manual safety is operating by simply interfering with something mid-way through it's travel, and I don't like that at all. It lacks the refinement and intentionality of the designs I mentioned above, and implies that the manual safety was kind of an afterthought in their overall engineering of the gun. It makes me wonder what other stuff like that is going on inside this thing.
Yep, I get that. And if I'm honest, I hate manual safeties and think it's particularly pointless on a DA/SA gun, so if I did get one of these I might break my own rule and not even use it. I prefer decock only, like a Sig or Beretta "G" model.The Beretta 92 that has a decocker, but this safety works as both decocker push down, and up for traditional safety.
It's not so much the technique that concerns me, but rather the manner in which the safety mechanism on this gun appears to function mechanically. I'd have to actually take one apart to see for sure what's going on, but it really skeeves me out that he was able to partially retract the slide AND partially cock the hammer by pulling the trigger with the safety on. That tells me that the manual safety is operating by simply interfering with something mid-way through it's travel, and I don't like that at all. It lacks the refinement and intentionality of the designs I mentioned above, and implies that the manual safety was kind of an afterthought in their overall engineering of the gun. It makes me wonder what other stuff like that is going on inside this thing.