How Do you keep your M1S90 ready for HD with respect to safety and quick useability?
Here's what I do:
1. Apply safety
2. open the bolt
3. close the bolt with the cocking lever
4. load the magazine completely
5. press the cartridge drop lever (one shell is extracted from the magazine and passed onto the carrier)
6. disengage the safety
7. pull the trigger (always point the gun in a safe direction!)
8. store it that way
Advantages:
+ The gun can be made ready to fire by simply pulling the cocking lever
+ it is in a much safer state compared to having an engaged safety only (impossible that it fires when dropped)
+ stress on the magazine spring is greatly reduced since the magazine is not fully loaded (= max magazine capacity minus one)
+ you have the nice racking sound of a pump when making it ready
Disadvantage:
- the max amount of shells is reduced by two. (1 less in the magazine and none in the barell)
Here's what I do:
1. Apply safety
2. open the bolt
3. close the bolt with the cocking lever
4. load the magazine completely
5. press the cartridge drop lever (one shell is extracted from the magazine and passed onto the carrier)
6. disengage the safety
7. pull the trigger (always point the gun in a safe direction!)
8. store it that way
Advantages:
+ The gun can be made ready to fire by simply pulling the cocking lever
+ it is in a much safer state compared to having an engaged safety only (impossible that it fires when dropped)
+ stress on the magazine spring is greatly reduced since the magazine is not fully loaded (= max magazine capacity minus one)
+ you have the nice racking sound of a pump when making it ready
Disadvantage:
- the max amount of shells is reduced by two. (1 less in the magazine and none in the barell)