When you carry do you keep a round chambered?

[Brand]

I carry a DAO with heavier than stock trigger pull. Semi autos are not safe imo, even with a manual safety. Anything mechanical can and does fail, why would you want an explosion waiting to happen on your hip?

According to your last sentence do you not also consider wheel guns to also be not safe?

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Brand, hang on there.

As you are probably aware revolvers aren't mechanical, they're ethereal.

Nothing, I mean absolutely nothing can go wrong with a revolver, ever.

Honest.

Ah, except when they do.

P.S. Old revolvers make great paper weights.

 

[Visable Abs]

These threads make me angry that they even exist. But,

My opinion is that if you aren't comfortable carrying with one in the chamber you either need to change your weapon to one you are comfortable carrying with a round in the chamber, or you need to not carry at all until you are.

This

1 in the chamber, no safety.

/thread

 

[jrbfishn]

Brand, hang on there.

As you are probably aware revolvers aren't mechanical, they're ethereal.

Nothing, I mean absolutely nothing can go wrong with a revolver, ever.

Honest.

Ah, except when they do.

P.S. Old revolvers make great paper weights.

Except black powder revolvers. They still work, supper deady projectile and a smokescreen to hide behind.

from an idgit coffeeholic

 

[satx78247]

ussoldier1984,

Understood. - SOME of our members may well be "nervous" about "locked & loaded".
(Fwiw, I was once, long ago, issued a 1911A1 that was so nearly "worn-out" as to be UNSAFE to fire. - After several unsuccessful "trips to DS/GS maintenance", I drove to a nearby post , which had an AMU, & asked one of the senior AMU armorers to FIX it to where I where I wasn't afraid to carry it. - He fixed the 1911 "better than new".)

Fyi, at the end of the 1911A1 service, SOME of the pistols were UNREPAIRABLE by depot maintenance personnel. = We sent any number in & were notified that they had been scrapped.
(Buying the M9 was a GOOD idea, imo.)

yours, satx

 

[2ManyGuns]

Sig P938 Loaded and safety on, Springfield Tactical chambered, or Ruger SR45 chambered and safety on.

 

[casp625]

1911 chambered, cocked, safety off. Thumb breaks sits in front of the hammer.

 

[texasnurse]

1911 chambered, cocked, safety off. Thumb breaks sits in front of the hammer.

Unless you have people routinely shooting at you; this is extremely poor safety practice and will likely result in a Negligent Discharge.
It's not if its when, practice lowering thumb safety or carry another platform


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[oohrah]

I purposely selected a DAO semi for EDC so I could confidently carry one in the pipe. Ruger LCP and PX4 Storm (decock mode).

 

[Alliance96]

I carry a Glock and wouldn't have it any other way. One in the chamber is the right move imo

 

[grahamiv]

Glock 19 with a round chambered in Holster at all times.

 

[casp625]

Unless you have people routinely shooting at you; this is extremely poor safety practice and will likely result in a Negligent Discharge.
It's not if its when, practice lowering thumb safety or carry another platform


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Probably an extremely poor safety practice for you. I assume.

ETA: my other carry weapon is a striker fired/no external safety/round chambered handgun... But I guess I should just find ANOTHER platform since this weapon is extremely poor on safety.

 

[duckknot]

I carry two in the chamber.....newbs!

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[Captain]

1911 cocked and locked plus 2 spare mags.

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[texasnurse]

Probably an extremely poor safety practice for you. I assume.

ETA: my other carry weapon is a striker fired/no external safety/round chambered handgun... But I guess I should just find ANOTHER platform since this weapon is extremely poor on safety.

If it's all the same to you, I carry 1911s with 4lb short pull/reset triggers; only lowering thumb safety as I'm swinging gun up to line up sights. The reason a DAO trigger is safer is because of the long, often heavy pull, and if applicable the Trigger Safety, but either weapon can fail regardless of safety employed or not...


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[Maverick44]

I carry two in the chamber.....newbs!

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[satx78247]

texasnurse,

ANYTHING made by people can fail. Nonetheless, what you posit is highly UNLIKELY.
(That's why I routinely carry a Model 12 S&W "snubbie" daily & for "more serious social purposes" & when I was active as a LEO, I have a Sig-Sauer P225, that FEELS much like the DA trigger on a typical S&W revolver.)

just my opinions, satx

 

[datboiroy]

I don't carry one in the chamber but I do need to start.

 

[jrbfishn]

Defender size 1911 and/or LC9s pro. Round chambered always and everyone in the house knows it. Neither have close to a double action trigger.
Keep the finger off the trigger until ready to shoot. Neither is going to fire by themselves.

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[texasnurse]

texasnurse,

ANYTHING made by people can fail. Nonetheless, what you posit is highly UNLIKELY.
(That's why I routinely carry a Model 12 S&W "snubbie" daily & for "more serious social purposes" & when I was active as a LEO, I have a Sig-Sauer P225, that FEELS much like the DA trigger on a typical S&W revolver.)

just my opinions, satx

Not my Point Casp625 stated that he carried a 1911 Loaded and Cocked but not locked, which is poor practice unless I'm being trolled...


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