Sig P229 + Drawstring = OUCH

[JetGirl]

Get your crap out of the way. Then re-holster with CARE.

 

[Spikedog]

Ouch!

 

[Birds Away]

"The only safety I need is right between my ears" - Half the members of INGO.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Wonder if it wasn't a DAK trigger...

Wonder if the DA would've gone off?

Matters not - drawstrings are something for us ALL to be aware of - especially now that we'll soon be transitioning into fall & winter.

-J-

 

[esrice]

"The only safety I need is right between my ears" - Half the members of INGO.

Looks like his failed.

 

[esrice]

Related: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...ing_dangles_guns_go_bang_without_fingers.html

 

[G_Stines]

Wonder if it wasn't a DAK trigger...

Wonder if the DA would've gone off?

Matters not - drawstrings are something for us ALL to be aware of - especially now that we'll soon be transitioning into fall & winter.

-J-

I don't understand these statements. DAK is a double action only, right? I just woke up but thats what my slow infusion of coffe has allowed my sleepy mind to recall.

So if im thinking right, the DA did go off... if it was DA/SA it would have been the same result, because it's still a DA length pull.

And I will certainly agree that this can apply to anyone and should to everyone.

 

[jeremy]

Just another reason I OC...

 

[jeremy]

Oh my...

It was an Evil Serpa Holster too...

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I don't understand these statements. DAK is a double action only, right? I just woke up but thats what my slow infusion of coffe has allowed my sleepy mind to recall.

So if im thinking right, the DA did go off... if it was DA/SA it would have been the same result, because it's still a DA length pull.

And I will certainly agree that this can apply to anyone and should to everyone.

DAK = Double Action Kellerman - every trigger pull the same - but the DAK action is substantially lighter than a traditional DA/SA

By my second statement calling it a "DA", I was implying a DA/SA with the longer & more difficult first trigger pull (hammer down)

-J-

 

[G_Stines]

I suppose it would just depend on how hard he put it in the holster... I didn't know that DAK was a lighter DA trigger. I was kind of put off by the always DA pull concept... But I might have to try one...

 

[cosermann]

Similar discharges happened back in the day when DA revolvers ruled.

The trigger weight isn't much of a factor when reholstering since relatively large arm muscles (compared to finger musles) are involved.

No one ever won a fight by being the fastest to put their gun away.

 

[MrsGBuck]

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[MrsGBuck]

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[rvb]

Thumb on the hammer on a DA gun 100% prevents this.

Thumb riding the safety on a SA gun 100% prevents this.

Given no hammer or safety, be extra extra careful. Now that I am giving glock a try, I make great effort to make sure the muzzle's not pointed at fleshy [fatty] bits as I'm holstering (including holstering the gun prior to putting the holster on my person when apx carrying)

-rvb

 

[turnandshoot4]

I reholster with my thumb on the hammer. If something gets snagged, I should know.

 

[Dr Dave]

Has enyone ever used those damn drawstrings anyway ?
Just cut them off !

 

[Alamo]

Not the first time.

This officer http://www.policeone.com/Officer-Sa...shot-when-draw-string-gets-lodged-in-trigger/
wounded himself while wearing an owb holster -- and a jacket with a string on it. He holstered his pistol at the range, not realizing that the drawstring was in the trigger guard. Went home, took off his jacket....boom.

Like others said, slow and careful, concealed or not.

 

[Compuvette]

Get your crap out of the way. Then re-holster with CARE.

I've seen that same thing happen with Glocks as well.

 

[Ridgeman4]

I guess no matter how careful you think that you are, any slight lapse of attention and things like this can happen. Things like this bring light to just how careful we have to be 100% of the time!