I've been shooting for more years than I care to remember or talk about. How ever in the last few years I've heard and read this term "Thumbs Forward" I'm not sure why but willing to learn. So why??? Also about the same time I started hearing and reading complaints about premature slide lock, failure to return to battery, and fail to feed because someone's thumb pushed up on the slide release or applied a little drag to the slide. I've never heard of "Thumbs Forward" on wrenches, hammers, ball bats. Someone please explain to me why you would use such a halfway grip on something you intend to use to save your butt. This is a serious question but I will probably still catch grief so Let The Games Begin.