How is your pistol prepared? I must be crazy, but I gotta do it!
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Unchambered, with full mag fully in. I just don't feel right with it fully chambered.
I do have the option for cocked and locked (CZ), and also many of my pistols are DA/SA and thus have a decocker, but I still prefer them to be unchambered. The exception being revolvers, which for reasons I can't explain I don't have a problem keeping them fully loaded.
Unchambered, with full mag fully in. I just don't feel right with it fully chambered.
I do have the option for cocked and locked (CZ), and also many of my pistols are DA/SA and thus have a decocker, but I still prefer them to be unchambered. The exception being revolvers, which for reasons I can't explain I don't have a problem keeping them fully loaded.
BHP
Cocked and Locked when carrying.
Took the advice of many on here and carried my Browning ( empty ) C & L all over the house for three weeks. Safety never swiped off. Ever. Now it is my mode of carry and I feel queasy when I DONT carry as such.
Full magazine with chamber empty when off hip @ home.
Cocked and Locked when carrying.
Took the advice of many on here and carried my Browning ( empty ) C & L all over the house for three weeks. Safety never swiped off. Ever. Now it is my mode of carry and I feel queasy when I DONT carry as such.
Full magazine with chamber empty when off hip @ home.
A little side question for Glock owners (I am one also)
Do, or would, you feel safe with a Glock, chambered? (no visable hammer or safety switch). I have heard of tests being done with loaded and chambered Glocks being dropped, run over, thrown against the floor, and yet NO discharge. Maybe that internal trigger safety does the trick, and also the firing pin is at its resting place until the trigger safety is disengaged only by a finger pulling the trigger.
I have a model 22, full size pistol. I currently don't carry it....
But am curious what you think...
Do, or would, you feel safe with a Glock, chambered? (no visable hammer or safety switch). I have heard of tests being done with loaded and chambered Glocks being dropped, run over, thrown against the floor, and yet NO discharge. Maybe that internal trigger safety does the trick, and also the firing pin is at its resting place until the trigger safety is disengaged only by a finger pulling the trigger.
I have a model 22, full size pistol. I currently don't carry it....
But am curious what you think...
automainea
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my 1911,cocked & locked all my others are chambered and safety on,when carrying its faster for me to flip the safety off then to chamber a round
Double Naught Spy
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Of course the poll above is somewhat dependent on the type of gun carried.
Glocks have a great reputation for not going off when they aren't supposed to go off, such as when dropped, run over, etc. as noted above. The one real problem Glocks have is a problem that has plagued other guns without safeties such as DA revolvers. That is, if the person handling the gun forgets to take their finger out of the trigger guard when reholstering, or the holster is one of those that tends to collapse when the gun is drawn and the lip of the holster or part of the guard of the thumb break end up inside the trigger guard on reholstering, the trigger gets pressed and the gun goes bang. Ideally, proper training and proper gear should keep that from happening. Of course this happens more rarely with 1911 owners who forget to engage the safety before reholstering.
Given the need for quick access to a loaded and ready to fire weapon, I would be more fearful of a gun with an empty chamber slowing me down and causing me to lose a fight than of a negligental discharge. I can control the circumstance under which I reholster my weapon. Chances are I cannot control the circumstances under which I will be in a gun fight.
Glocks have a great reputation for not going off when they aren't supposed to go off, such as when dropped, run over, etc. as noted above. The one real problem Glocks have is a problem that has plagued other guns without safeties such as DA revolvers. That is, if the person handling the gun forgets to take their finger out of the trigger guard when reholstering, or the holster is one of those that tends to collapse when the gun is drawn and the lip of the holster or part of the guard of the thumb break end up inside the trigger guard on reholstering, the trigger gets pressed and the gun goes bang. Ideally, proper training and proper gear should keep that from happening. Of course this happens more rarely with 1911 owners who forget to engage the safety before reholstering.
Given the need for quick access to a loaded and ready to fire weapon, I would be more fearful of a gun with an empty chamber slowing me down and causing me to lose a fight than of a negligental discharge. I can control the circumstance under which I reholster my weapon. Chances are I cannot control the circumstances under which I will be in a gun fight.
above poll is for general firearms...
A few of you mentioned, that my questions don't target a specific pistol.... I imagine that most pistols in general (revolver or semiauto) are gonna be hammered.... But then again, even the glocks seem to be just as safe, chambered and ready to rock.
At the moment, I keep my Glock and Taurus, fully loaded, but not chambered.... But perhaps with good handling practice and tests with dummy loads... I may keep them stored, chambered.
A few of you mentioned, that my questions don't target a specific pistol.... I imagine that most pistols in general (revolver or semiauto) are gonna be hammered.... But then again, even the glocks seem to be just as safe, chambered and ready to rock.
At the moment, I keep my Glock and Taurus, fully loaded, but not chambered.... But perhaps with good handling practice and tests with dummy loads... I may keep them stored, chambered.
don't shoot it's me
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P7...light on the mustard, german rye
j-frame smith.... a little mayo on a hard roll
Beretta 92....in a light pomodoro sauce, shaved peccorino on top
j-frame smith.... a little mayo on a hard roll
Beretta 92....in a light pomodoro sauce, shaved peccorino on top
Both of mine are Rugers with the decocker option and double action first round/single action beyond that. It is not possible to carry them cocked and locked. As carrying a round in the chamber in not inherently less safe than carrying a revolver with all chambers loaded, that's the way I carry my Rugers. The safety is between the ears - good common sense and plenty of practice.