The press-check for semi-autos has been standard practice for decades. Grip the pistol with your offhand. Use your dominant hand to grasp the slide and move it a few millimeters backward. Check the chamber and release the slide.RetNavy wrote:eject the magazine, ejecting round, cycling slide a few times to make sure nothing else in the chamber, lock slide, visually check chamber, insert magazine, slide release to chamber new round,safety on, release magazine, thumb out couple of rounds, load ejected round into mag along with other rounds, insert mag, double check making sure safety is on.
You have secured the slide and successfully performed a press-check.