The problems with extended controls are multi-fold. Firstly, shooters don't give it a proper trial run with associated adjustments. For instance, the extended slide release of the G34 on a G17. The release stands out and as a right-handed shooter if your right thumb is too close to the slide you won't get the slide lock after emptying your magazine. However, with practice of laying your right thumb on top of the left thumb you won't have this issue. All about practice and repetitions. Secondly, there are extended controls that have solved some of the issues. For instance, the Larry Vickers extended slide and magazine releases for Glocks. The extended slide and mag releases do not jut out like the ones from the G34.
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills.
- Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military
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