What condition do you carry Beretta 92 in?

My only experience in carrying the 92 is in a Security Police setting (Air Force). We carry it decocked, safety off, one in the chamber. First shot is DA, SA thereafter.

md2lgyk
 
I carry my...

...96D in the only condition it can be carried in. ;)

(But when I carried the Border Marshal before it, I carried one in the chamber with the safety "off". I find safeties on DA autos to be a little superfluous, unless you are a peace officer carrying openly and have to worry about gun snatch attempts.)
 
Condition 1 and a half?

I carry with one in the pipe, safety on, but then again, I'm pretty paranoid about safety. Is that overkill?

I do practice popping the safety off while bringing to bear. It's awkward until you get used to it, but after a bit it becomes second nature.
 
I bet my life on a Beretta 92FS, for about nine years, and I followed safety regualtions, which was round-in-chamber, and decocking lever down (safety on). I practiced assiduously pushing the decocking lever UP, when drawing from the holster. That too was the training instituted, and required. I got to be very fast with getting the Beretta out with decocking lever up, and on target.

I know of seven peace officers, who shot themselves in the leg, when holstering their Berettas, when they just KNEW 1,000 times more than the instructors, who kept hammering at them, "Lever down and it stays down, when holstering.!" So, they'd either leave the pistol cocked, lever up, or, decock, then raise the lever to "Fire" position. But then, what the Hell does a trained firearms instructor know?? (Those 9mm bullets make big holes at contact range, boys and girls.)

I know another peace officer who is alive today, very simply because he carried his Beretta according to Dept. safety regulations, round chambered, decocking lever DOWN (on Safety). He and his partner, were jumped by multiple assailants in an ambush situation, outside one of the projects in Los Angeles.

While he was fighting with three of the bad guys, another managed to jerk his Beretta from his holster. The Bad Guy kept aiming at point blank range at the officer, pulling the trigger. Nothing happened. He pushed all the buttons except the right one (decocking lever), and even the magazine dropped out on the ground, but he couldn't get the pistol to fire.

Meanwhile, the officer managed to get one hand free and pulls his backup S&W 36, and caps a round through the bad guy. Bad guy drops the Beretta and staggers off.

P.O's. partner is fighting with several other bad guys and is screaming, "They've got my gun, they've got my gun!" One bad guy was just getting his Beretta free from the holster when the first P.O. jumps to him and at contact range, blows his brains out with Model 36.

Point here is, if the peace officer had been carrying his Beretta with the decocking lever in the "Fire" position, he and his partner would both have been undergoing autopsies on a stainless steel table the next morning. Thankfully the Dept. issued Berettas rather than Glocks or SIGs.

If you practice pushing that decocking/safety lever up, the instant you pull that pistol from its holster, you'll do it in a real life situation, cop or not. Believe me, I know.

JMHO. J.B.
 
My reasoning:

As a civilian CCW user, the chances of someone trying to snatch my pistol are negligible.

I've heard of people who were thrown clear of burning cars that went into lakes after having the driver's compartment crushed. If they'd been wearing their seatbelts, they'd have been crushed, burned and drowned.

I still don't draw to inside straights. ;)

(PS: Besides, my slickslide 96D doesn't even have a safety :eek: )


(PPS: Like I said, though, if I were carrying openly, I'd probably rethink my position on the subject. Then again, I'd probably carry my P7 a lot more. Very few people, experienced gunnies included, figure those things out on the first try. ;) )
 
I'm another "hammer decocked, one in the chamber, safety OFF" person when I carry my 92fs.
I, personally, very rarely use the safety. I use it only while holstering the gun. Once secured in my holster, I wipe it off.
 
i carry a beretta 96 on duty with the safety in the off position...but, i carry in a security holster i'm practicing flipping it off on the draw but won't do that until it becomes automatic.

when i carry it off-duty OWB the safety is always off

as a night stand gun i leave the safety on as an extra step as i'm waking up
 
I prefer the round chambered/safety off carry for the Beretta 92. I've been fortunate enough to find a police trade-in 92G, on which the lever functions only as a decocker. I wish Beretta would market these to the general public. I heard there was a Brigadier 92G, but I don't care for the appearance of that chunky slide.
 
I hate to admit it but I've carried my 92FSC for years with the hammer pulled to half-cock. It makes the first double action shot shorter and smoother. And if I'm reaching with my thumb to cock the hammer, it's also a more comfortable motion. Probably not recommended by Beretta. But I like to carry it that way.
 
I carry my 96 FS Brigadier in a shoulder rig, condition 2. Thats with the safty off, round in chamber. I for one like the heavier slide of the Brigadier. :p

I see no reason to carry cocked and locked even if it were posible with my gun. What advantage do you see in that? Just wondering, not criticizing.
I have ordered a Tactical/drop leg holster for when I cut wood, and will most likely carry with the safty on. Much easier for me to flip it off on the draw when it is in that position. If anyone is wondering why I want to carry my gun when I am cutting wood, two words, Bear Sighting! More than one, and very close to where I cut wood...

So I guess it depends on how I carry... ;)
 
condition 2?

I guess that's what it's called? behind on my terminology I guess, but I prefer mine chambered, uncocked, safety off. I have a 92FS and a 92G. Had the G first and that's what I'm more used to.

One comment on the safety.... I never hear it taught well on Berettas. If you are having trouble flipping the safety "UP," tell yourself to push it "FORWARD." It's springloaded so it's easy, and because of its angle and the direction it sweeps, it will go UP if you follow through pushing FORWARD.

Never heard that formally, but once I heard it, the action became easy.

Still prefer my Elite version, though ;)

rvb
 
With a little practice, flipping the safety off during the draw is very easy. As the previous post stated, you only need to push slightly forward, the spring takes care of the rest. After hearing Jay Baker's testamonial, I would probably leave that safety on. In the Air Force, we are taught to leave it on fire, but I sometimes forget to do that.;)
 
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