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A handgun without a round in the chamber is an expensive hammer. As someone who has carried for the past 30 years as part of his profession and instructed who-knows-how many shooters, I can say that I have never told someone to carry a handgun with the chamber empty. Never understood the concept.
If you're too scared to carry with a round in the chamber than you shouldn't carry a handgun at all. You're not ready yet. At least not until you're comfortable carrying one in the pipe. I'm sure some on here will disagree with that, but they probably fall in the same category. Whatever you end up doing, do what feels right and comfortable to you. But your goal should be to work toward carrying one in the pipe everytime without hesitation or worry.
Most glock ad's are from pulling the trigger to release the slide for cleaning.
Quote from: Torrent50 on June 18, 2021, 08:29:12 PMA handgun without a round in the chamber is an expensive hammer. As someone who has carried for the past 30 years as part of his profession and instructed who-knows-how many shooters, I can say that I have never told someone to carry a handgun with the chamber empty. Never understood the concept. The concept is that statistically speaking you are more likely to have a misfire than draw and fire your gun in a self-defense situation. So there is a valid argument to both sides. I carry hot in the woods but not around town. The need to quick draw and fire by a civilian is mostly Hollywood lore. The typical self-defense situation involves drawing your gun and yelling a warning. I can draw and rack in a single motion, it really isn't a big deal. The manual safety is really the better option. Just because Gaston Glock didn't include one doesn't mean that everyone should copy him. The argument of design complexity doesn't make sense. AR-15s have manual safeties and no one worries about them failing.
If I go hunting in Alaska I'll be in bear areas as my #1 bucket list is a diy moose float. I'll take the G20.If I'm a tourist in Alaska, just my regular edc will suffice.
It's pretty simple for me. Once it's in the holster, it stays in the holster until it needs to go bang. I don't mess with it, don't handle it, don't have any opportunity for an AD, which is really a misnomer. They are almost always actually ND's (negligent discharge).
Quote from: Torrent50 on June 20, 2021, 08:13:56 PMIt's pretty simple for me. Once it's in the holster, it stays in the holster until it needs to go bang. I don't mess with it, don't handle it, don't have any opportunity for an AD, which is really a misnomer. They are almost always actually ND's (negligent discharge). There is a personal argument and a statistical argument. You can make that statement to every gun owner and there would still be more accidental discharges from needlessly carrying hot. That is just the way it is. It's not purely an issue of education as seen by the fact that it has happened to police officers. Safety precautions exist to reduce human error. You can create all the guides you want but human error will remain. Someone will blank and pull their gun from their holster with their finger on the trigger. Probably not you or anyone here but it will happen. It happens enough to where it has a name which is glock leg. Manual safeties are probably the ideal middle ground.
I honestly don't know anyone in any firearm related profession teaching this. Israeli's do this, but their situation is very unique and doesn't pertain to us. can you refer to any pistol teachings or instructors that promote this type of carry?
As a "good guy with a gun" you're always behind the 8-ball, you're always reactionary. The bad guys (or other threat) are the ones who get to pick time and place, you do not.
