Where/how do you load your ccw?

cobb · Jun 9, 2003

My question for some of the veterans of ccw, where or how do you load your ccw, more interesting would be, where or how do you chamber a round before leaving the house?
A couple of years ago at a local bowling pin match I had a slam fire with my 1911, and of course the muzzle was pointed down range and just put a big hole in the ground about 20 feet out. So do you chamber a round when pointing the firearm in what you consider a safe direction, or do you go as far as point the muzzle into a 5 gallon pail filled with sand, or is a slam fire something that never occured to you that would happen?
I live in the country, so I never cycle live rounds through my gun in the house, I just step outside and do that, but city slickers don't have that convenience.

So what do you do?

voilsb · Jun 9, 2003

beretta 92fs ... pistol on safe, slide locked to the rear, no mag. load standard cap magazine with 16 rounds into pistol. release slide. disengage safety. holster. now I'm at 15+1.

jsalcedo · Jun 9, 2003

I point at the TV and let the slide release go over a full mag then
flick the safety on.

My wife wants a new TV but I follow the rules and keep my guns in good repair.

Logistar · Jun 9, 2003

Beretta 92FS (Vertec) Safety on. Insert magazine... rack slide. (No access to firing pin with safety on.) After round is chambered, safety is moved to OFF position and gun is carefully placed into holster.

Taurus PT-111 Insert magazine. Rack slide while pointing at something "unimportant". If I am worried about it, I let the slide go forward VERY s l o w l y . (Riding the slide.) It will hit the bottom of the feed ramp and very slowly slide into the chamber. - Then placed carefully into holster.

Standing Wolf · Jun 9, 2003

I unload my pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 60 .357 magnum revolver only when I give it its weekly cleaning.

All my .22 caliber match pistols are unloaded for the sake of magazine springs; everything else, however, is always loaded all the time.

cool45auto · Jun 10, 2003

I'm with the Beretta guys. Safety on, no contact with firing pin, pop in mag, rack slide, eject mag, top off and reinsert mag.

Mike Irwin · Jun 10, 2003

I carry a revolver.

I ensure that it's loaded before I leave the house, and close the cylinder.

Ready to go.

HS/LD · Jun 10, 2003

No kids.

All guns always loaded.

H&K USP (carry gun)
Safety on.
Insert full mag.
Release slide.
Eject mag.
Top off.
Insert mag.
Holster.
Safety stays on.

HS/LD

Racegun · Jun 10, 2003

Hell, I just step out in the backyard where the steel plates are hanging in that big tree and take aim. I load the gun and bang a plate. That loads the really pretty shiney, lightweight, custom girly gun 1911 Commander and then I just put it in my custom carry holster and go shopping after putting on the safety . Hell the gun won't shoot anything in that mode unless I disengage the safety and get a good grip on the beavertail so I am so cool. I do love the 1911 made by my husband!

It's no problem on Texas county land and if there was we are the local PD armorer. We have no problems out here in fly over sticks!

dakotasin · Jun 10, 2003

i keep my guns loaded.

if i have taken them apart for cleaning, or whatever, i just load the mag, pop it in, open the door and point it at the grass strip between my house and neighbor's house, rack the slide, put it on safe - and that is how i carry it (cocked & locked).

not worried about the noise or whetever from a slam-fire. the gun is pointed in a safe direction, and nobody cares about a little racket. though, i've never had any sort of a malfunction w/ my 1911...

Tamara · Jun 10, 2003

The only time I unload my CCW guns is once a week or so in the back yard. Less often for the purse howitzer. :uhoh:

winwun · Jun 10, 2003

Model 36. What was your question again ?

Gophfer · Jun 10, 2003

Mine stays loaded. I point in safe direction (at ground) rack slide and engage safety.

JohnBT · Jun 10, 2003

I just point mine at an exterior wall, or the fireplace, and load 'em up. The walls are 14 inches of solid brick and covered on the inside with an inch or so of plaster. The fireplace is really sturdy.

John

Hemicuda · Jun 10, 2003

Well, the only time the CCW piece gets UNLOADED is when it's in for cleaning... but the procedure is to clean it, then push a full magazine into place, and drop the slide...

IF it happened to not already be set there, I then move the safety/decocker to the safe position... allowing the hammer to fall harmlessly... fir this maneuver, I either aim at the TV (floor is wort more than the TV set) or just kinda wander out my front door... (livin' in the middle of NOWHERE has it's distinct advantages!

El Tejon · Jun 10, 2003

Why are you unloading? Kids?

spacemanspiff · Jun 10, 2003

i unload to dryfire a couple times a day usually. makes sitting on the porcelain throne more enjoyable. i just make sure the muzzle is in a safe direction (floor, wall, bosses head- oops i dont do that) and that my finger is outside the trigger and the beavertail isnt depressed.

GlocksRock · Jun 10, 2003

Insert loaded mag, rack slide, holster. I carry Glocks, so that makes it really easy. Very simple manual of arms. No dummy levers aka safetys to fiddle around with.

TonyB · Jun 10, 2003

Same as Mike Irwin......revolver(sp101)make sure it's loaded,and go.

E357 · Jun 10, 2003

I carry Glocks, so that makes it really easy. Very simple manual of arms.

Until the day a small piece of brass or primer gets caught in the firing pin hole and 15 of your 17 rounds wind up in the roof.

Never trust the slide. The safest way used to be to load one round into a mag, chamber it, then refill the mag. With a 1911 your were supposed to hold the trigger back when droping the slide. No one under middle age does this anymore.

Elliot

PS: Yes if you want a safe semi-auto, I can't think of one that is safer than a Beretta.

willyjixx · Jun 10, 2003

i carry loaded. i have a DA/SA an leave one in the chamber with a full mag - 1. and i carry a spare mag. i lock it up every night in my safe after work an leave it in its carry holster. once a week i unload check the rounds check the gun wipe the lint an crud an reoil if necessary. every 6 months usually around my birthday i go an burn my defense ammo an get a new box an change magazines with the other set of em (have 5 mags total) 1s a backup thats at home always unloaded in case i get a bad mag.

bersa thunder .380 with federal hydra-shock. gun goes every where the state of NV will legally let me. then it stays in the safe at night. the mossberg 500 in the corner performs nocturnal security.

Heat Miser · Jun 10, 2003

With a 1911 your were supposed to hold the trigger back when droping the slide. No one under middle age does this anymore.

What was the purpose of this? I can guess, but why the change?

jsalcedo · Jun 10, 2003

That sounds like an AD waiting to happen.

Pebcac · Jun 10, 2003

Heat Miser - the idea is that, with the trigger held back, the disconnector is engaged until the slide is down and the trigger released.

To answer the question of the thread, POA is either the floor or into the solid oak of the bureau in the bedroom. If there's ever a discharge inside the house that's not directed at an intruder, the missus will insure that the hole in the floor/bureau door is the least of my worries.

E357 · Jun 10, 2003

Pebcac: thank you for saving me the typing. When are they going to get a spelling checker on this board?

Elliot

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