Round in Chamber

[Dead Duck]

Hey JetGirl -- A BURN

 

[JetGirl]

It's not cool to make fun of old people.

 

[MikeDVB]

It's not cool to make fun of old people.

I didn't make you trip over your shadow and you're the one that brought it up .

 

[Dead Duck]

Maybe she just forgot.

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[Beau]

There is only one way to carry your firearm. If you're doing it any other way you're doing it wrong.

[video=youtube;8pU2IOTEZlU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pU2IOTEZlU[/video]

 

[Newhoosier]

I understand your concerns about having a round chambered. I'm a huge 1911 fan and never liked the fact that I had a round under a cocked and locked hammer. I went thru the whole empty chamber , didnt feel prepaired to having a thumb break between hammer and pin, too much fiddling around and snag hazzard. I finnaly ended up with a para LDA just to make me feel safer. The odds of ever having to draw and stop an idiot are rair but what ever you choose ,carry. Avoid bad situations, and most of all try to see it comming.

 

[nakinate]

It's not cool to make fun of old people.

What about making fun of homeschoolers? Is that cool?

 

[JetGirl]

What about making fun of homeschoolers? Is that cool?

Only if they lick windows.

 

[red_zr24x4]

Sig 226- round in the chamber with the hammer down, the mag topped off.(Pistol has a de-cocker)
1911- Cocked and locked, mag topped off.

 

[nakinate]

Only if they lick windows.

Never met any that did that. Some ate dirt, some thought sleeping in the same bed with your mother at age 14 was normal, but no window licking.

 

[possum_128]

"I feel confident I could rack the slide to load a round very quickly" will look great on your tombstone. Carry it loaded because you will not have time my friend.

 

[chezuki]

I can't imagine anyone ever running a tueller drill and still advocating an empty chamber. If just won't happen.

 

[nakinate]

Not to mention, what if you need to grab a child with your weak arm to pull them out harms way. How will you rack the slide with one hand? Or perhaps one of your arms gets shot and immobilized before you can draw. Too many variables. Carry how you wish, but I recommend one in the chamber.

 

[nakinate]

And who invented the phrase "not to mention"? It makes no sense!

 

[BehindBlueI's]

There is only one way to carry your firearm. If you're doing it any other way you're doing it wrong.

[video=youtube;8pU2IOTEZlU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pU2IOTEZlU[/video]

That does seem safer. I wonder how I can accomplish the same thing with a revolver. Maybe tack weld the hammer in place and carry a file?

 

[chezuki]

Not to mention, what if you need to grab a child with your weak arm to pull them out harms way. How will you rack the slide with one hand? Or perhaps one of your arms gets shot and immobilized before you can draw. Too many variables. Carry how you wish, but I recommend one in the chamber.

You need some training in "One Handed Pistol Manipulations". With practice it's pretty easy to rack the slide by catching the rear sight on a pocket or belt. One handed loading, reloading, and malfunction clearing are skills you should have even with one in the chamber.

And who invented the phrase "not to mention"? It makes no sense!

It is synonymous with the phrase "it goes without saying", as in something that should be so obvious that it doesn't need mentioning. (Though it usually is anyway)

 

[bingley]

It is synonymous with the phrase "it goes without saying", as in something that should be so obvious that it doesn't need mentioning. (Though it usually is anyway)

I will not mention the associated rhetorical figures of apophasis, which mentions something by asserting that the speaker will not mention it; paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, which is a similar idea often associated with ad hominem attacks; and proslepsis, which is an extreme form of paralipsis that gives full detail about the thing that the speaker claims not to mention.

 

[Lebowski]

I don't carry, no LTCH (yet). But my .45 is within arms reach when I'm in bed or when I'm at my desk (at home, where I work). 8+1, and I keep that +1 in there always. Safety on, just because, but I can flip that singlehandedly with my thumb and squeeze the trigger. Will go bang.

 

[PriestEG]

do not be intimidating by the location of a round in the chamber.. its not a snake that is ready to 'bit' at a seconds notice. its just a tool. be confident

 

[Faiden]

Always one in the chamber. If I draw my weapon, it is because I truly believe I am seconds away from being killed. Racking the slide requires two hands and 1 - 2 seconds. I can't guarantee that I'll have that either of those when I need the weapon the most.