Finger placed horizontally, I fail to see how anything can go wrong? Beats grabbing the hammer and lowering it that way...We call that a 'wild west decock'. Remember Murphy's law
Finger placed horizontally, I fail to see how anything can go wrong? Beats grabbing the hammer and lowering it that way...
Finger placed horizontally, I fail to see how anything can go wrong? Beats grabbing the hammer and lowering it that way...
Murphy's law doesn't rely on you seeing the possible error ;-).
Decocker beats any form of dropping a hammer on a safety gun. Unless you're going to carry it cocked and locked, i'd run decocker.
Anybody have definite knowledge of a person letting a round off while manually lowering a hammer ? For production class (USPSA, Steels) and SSP class (Idpa) that is the way we do it, so it gets done thousands of times every weekend and many more times in between.
Anything can happen, but if you exercise reasonable care I think the data says that there are a lot of better things to worry about.
You have more fingers.
Years ago I had a Bersa Thunder. Tried to decock with thumb on hammer and it went off. The hammer just pulled away from my thumb. The gun was fairly new, maybe 150 rounds.
The manual on my SIG P238 specifically says the gun can fire if you do this. Thus you can see my interest in a decocker.