Nickel Plated
New member
I just started carrying a Beretta 85FS and there's just one thing about it that kinda irks me. When you use the decocker lever to drop the hammer, it doesn't fully decock it. The hammer stops at a half-cock position, so when you pull the trigger, you get kind of like half of the regular double action pull. This is kind of annoying because you now basically have to master 3 different trigger pulls.
What I like to do is decock the pistol to drop the hammer to half-cock, then thumb the hammer back just a hair to let the half-cock sear release, and lower the hammer all the way down to it's fully decocked position. I prefer having the full double action pull for safety's sake, and not having to deal with that half double action pull.
Just curious if it's OK to carry that way. It is an FS model so it has the firing pin block, I see no real issue with having the hammer rest on the firing pin. Afterall the Beretta 92 lets the hammer rest on the firing pin when decocked. But then why would they even have that half cock position?
What I like to do is decock the pistol to drop the hammer to half-cock, then thumb the hammer back just a hair to let the half-cock sear release, and lower the hammer all the way down to it's fully decocked position. I prefer having the full double action pull for safety's sake, and not having to deal with that half double action pull.
Just curious if it's OK to carry that way. It is an FS model so it has the firing pin block, I see no real issue with having the hammer rest on the firing pin. Afterall the Beretta 92 lets the hammer rest on the firing pin when decocked. But then why would they even have that half cock position?