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What do you want your sidearm to do?
Do you want it to be a realistic showpiece?
Do you want to have really hard blowback?
Or do you want it to be efficient so it works every time you pull it out?
Everyone always harps on plastic slides as if it's some sort of major detriment to a pistol.
It's not the upper receiver of an M16, it's just the slide of a pistol. They are inherently engineered to be tough to begin with (some exceptions, like the 5-7). Actual plastic slide failures are quite rare. Yes, everyone has heard of them, but consider just how many of them are out there.
UPSIDE to plastic slide? Efficiency. So much efficiency. They're usually less than HALF the weight of stock metal slides, and still significantly lighter than many aftermarket aluminum/titanium slides.
So what does that mean?
You can put a 150% recoil spring guide in there and still get 50 shots per mag in the right conditions.
The slide is lighter, therefore accelerates faster, bringing your cycle speed right down.
Pair that with a lightweight blowback unit that cuts half the weight off the original unit, even FASTER cycle time.
Best part? The faster slide movement also translates to more momentum, that means more recoil.
After having owned metal and plastic slide pistols, I'm never going back to metal slides. No point.
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