rifleman0311
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Cocked and locked? DA? I usually carry strikers chambered with light triggers. is carrying a DA/SA cocked (without safety) any more dangerous? Thanks
IIRC, doesn't a regular P series SIG without the short reset trigger actually re-engage the firing pin block between shots if you let the trigger all the way forward? I thought that is how the SRT was able to accomplish what it does. I absolutely would NOT carry a P series SIG with the hammer back, but without the SRT I do think it has some form of drop safety (albeit no provision for inertia).DA/SA is one of my favorites. Okay, it is my favorite. I've meddled with striker-fired pistols and still own one. (did a huge amount of downsizing over the last year).
Hammer fired guns just feel more natural to me.
I have a friend who used to carry his SIG P229 (one of my carry pistols) with the hammer back. On a DA/SA platform that's extremely dangerous. If you so much as slip and fall the gun will go off. The sear is disengaged and there is nothing stopping that trigger from being pulled. The inertia alone will set that gun off.
Striker-Fired pistols have trigger safeties also referred to as the "dingus" on the trigger shoe itself to prevent the inertia bump.
So NEVER carry your DA/SA pistol unless it's also one with a safety on it.
Example, a SIG P226/9/8/0/etc is a decock only conventional DA/SA.
The HK USP 9, P30, etc in V1 has a safety/decocker. So you can carry it DA/SA or SAO.
Same with the FNX 45.
If you convert the HK to a V3, it'll be exactly like a SIG pistol with DA/SA only and no safety. Which is what I did to my EDC pistol. My USP 9 Compact was a V1 (safety/decocker) and I changed the detent plate and lever to V3 (decock) only.
Carry the guns as they're intended to be carried by the manufacturer.
IIRC, doesn't a regular P series SIG without the short reset trigger actually re-engage the firing pin block between shots if you let the trigger all the way forward? I thought that is how the SRT was able to accomplish what it does. I absolutely would NOT carry a P series SIG with the hammer back, but without the SRT I do think it has some form of drop safety (albeit no provision for inertia).
Yes to my knowledge that is how they work. As for being sure, I make no guarantees.I did not know that. So the SRT eliminates that and the standard SIG trigger reengages the firing pin block? Are you sure?
Sure, you go find one and I'll wait.I'd like a SIG armorer to chime in. A real one..Not like me, I'm a self proclaimed one.