My Glock will not be my bedstand gun.

I can rack the slides of all of my Glocks quite easily with one hand.
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Maybe I should have said that it would take both of MY hands to rack the slide.

How do YOU rack the slide with just one hand?

Do you regularly practice racking with one hand?
 
I keep mine in a Sidearmor holster on the nightstand. The holster covers the trigger guard, so I'll not accidentally grab the trigger when grabbing the gun. It's my IWB holster, and the belt loops are located such that if need be, I can push the holster off with my index finger, making one-handed access easy. It just requires me to be awake and thinking, and that's what I like about it.
 
Back when I carried a Glock, yes, it was pretty routine during dry fire practice. I am right handed with not particularly large hands. my right thumb will stay hooked around the back of the frame. The fingers of my right hand reach up and around the top of the slide. With force mostly exerted by my thumb I rack the slide. All happens pretty quick. Hand moves back to firing postion. These days I carry a pistol with a fairly stout recoil spring and exposed hammer so it is a little more difficult to do quickly.
 
Well, I successfully "one-hand-racked" my P11 a few times, and I'd definitely have to be wide awake to do it in a pinch. It's not something I'd depend on though because the pistol doesn't end up in a firing grip nor does the slide return with enough velocity to be assured it's in battery without the additional step of giving the back of the slide a reassuring thump. It also seems like the elapsed time to condition 0 would be greatly extended from using the simple slide release from open chamber trick.

Anyway, thanks for opening me up to a new trick!
 
Heavy sleeper? Then Chamber empty or holstered if you insist on keeping a round in the chamber.

If you wake up startled and put your finger on the trigger without firing you comitted a serious "NO NO". Train to keep your finger off the trigger and it will become instinct. It doesn't matter if it's a 1911 with a 3lb trigger, Glock with a 5.5 or Revolver with a 12lb. Don't touch until abosulutely ready to fire. Problem solved.

Otherwise the holster isn't a bad idea. It only takes a second to chamber a round and the loud sound of a slide being racked can be a serious deterrant. Perhaps even enough to make the BG leave.

Good Shooting
RED
 
I've been using Aahzz's method for a while myself -- it seems to work well for me. I keep the retention strap velcroed around my Glock -- I think I'd be pretty awake by the time the pistol was ready to fire. Sure, it's slower, but we have dogs to wake me up in plenty of time. Of course, my fiancee has been tempted to use the Glock on the dogs plenty of times when they woke her up over nothing.

It's always a trade-off.
 
LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR RIGHT NOW.

Not once have I placed my finger on the trigger. The few times that I've went so far as to grab the gun, I had a good firing grip with finger alongside slide and thumb on the safety.

Also, its not like I'm grabbing the gun all the time. A little noise just wakes me up and makes me alert.

BTW, I live in a VERY quiet neighborhood in a rural community. I don't have the constant hum of traffic or airplanes going overhead. The chance that I'll be a victim of violent crime is very low. Things wake me up, pardon me. :)
 
The simple thing to do is keep your gun in a location where you have to get out of bed and take a couple of steps to get to it. Maybe even open a drawer or a closet to get to it. The few extra movements will only take a second but will enable you to become more fully awake. Put an alarm in your house. When the alarm sounds, it will give you plenty of time to access your gun before the BG gets to your bedroom. Not that he would anyway...the sound of an alarm will send 99.9999999999999999999% of BGs fleeing with their cowardly tails between their legs.
 
"[My wife] knows how I am, but almost every morning she'll drop something or shut the door hard ... I'll be up with my eyes buggin-out in a flash."


Man, I almost busted my side laughing at that one, trying to picture the scene. Sorry, Steve, but I'd say your wife has an "interesting" sense of humor. Married long?

If we can be serious for a sec, the revolver option suggested earlier, with its long DA trigger pull, is a sound one if you're that goosey about the adrenaline surging uncontrollably thru your trigger finger when you've been aroused from a sound sleep. If it has to be an auto, keep the chamber empty. It only takes a second to rack it, and even in that half-a-sleep, zombified state you describe it's still do-able. :D
 
I know its funny, but I'll be damned if that ain't the way I am. It cracks my wife up! She used to really get a kick out of it when I'd go from sound asleep to standing in the middle of the floor (eyes buggin' again) in 0.5 seconds flat. Its weird, it seems as though I always have the sense to know whether I should grab a gun or not, but MAN my eyes are buggin-out and I'm sitting up and stuff. Its like someone poked me with a cattle prod.
 
I can't believe I'm reading this STeve. I have done kinda the same thing. I've been known to sleep walk from time to time and I keep the guns away from My bed because I've been worried about doing something stupid in My "Fog";)

Didn't the Darwin Awards nominate a guy a few years ago that shot himself in the head, because he heard the phone ring? He picked up his Bedside gun and answered the gun and not the phone:rolleyes:
 
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Aha, I can help. You need some new doors and a BMF dog!
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Above is a good suggestion, might also try what I did. Screwed a cheap kydex holster to the top of the inside of the first drawer of the nightstand. When you open the drawer you dont see a thing, just reach up and it and your ready to go.
 
I get the same way at times. I become accustomed to certain noises in the house. Any other noise immediately sets off my internal alarm.

I personally leave the chamber empty on my bedside gun, which is a glock, but then I've done that with any weapon that I keep for a bedside gun.

Besides, if anyone did break in my house, my dog would make enough noise to bring me fully to my senses in no time.

Not once have I placed my finger on the trigger. The few times that I've went so far as to grab the gun, I had a good firing grip with finger alongside slide and thumb on the safety.
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Great! I'm glad you are among the trained minority that do.

Good SHooting
RED
 
There have been several instances of accidental discharges with night stand guns. There are 2 factors in this. 1) Guns stored loaded 2) Waking up, period. When you wake up from full sleep you may do many goofy things as it is a process that takes some time, anywhere from a few seconds to many. It doesn't matter if you have a 1911 or revolver, you can pull the trigger and fire it. Ayoob wrote about one poor soul who kept his .38 revolver on his night stand. He was asleep and his phone rang. He grabbed his .38 revolver and shot himself in the head. It is very rare to hear of a person who is wakes up with an intruder ontop of themself. I personaly know a guy who went to bed with his loaded DOA .45 ACP under his bed in easy reach. He woke up with it pointed at his doorway and said he realized he was starting to sqeeze the trigger when he woke up enough to stop. He things in his sleep he imagined a dark shadow standing in the doorway. Ayoob also tells of a police det. who fired 2 rounds through his closet with his .357 snub with out knowing why he did it. I keep my Glock empty with a full mag laying along side it. There are always in the exact same place. I can roll over, reach both, put the clip in and rack the slide in much less time than it takes to tell it. I've done this a few times in the dark when the dog woke me up (dog(s) are the single best alarm you can have for the inside of your house) or I heard a "bump in the night". No problem, worked fine, and I don't worry about dropping the hammer on my wife coming back to bed from midnight water call.
 
Steve ~

I have lots and lots of guns, but consider myself pretty much of a Glock Guy. In spite of my fondness for Glocks, I feel that my HK USP .45 with one in the chamber and safety "ON" best suits my requirements for a bedroom gun.
 
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