1911 Safety Disengaging in Truck

[gasmandave]

I've carried 1911s allot, standard safety and ambidextrous safety. I have a SR1911 in 10mm and a SR1911 CMD in .45. I think when you drop the pistol in the side pocket you sometimes disengage the safety. The gun should not go off as the grip safety has to be depressed and the trigger pulled. I've only had the slide safety come off in the holster if the holster doesn't cove the safety, then it will get caught on my "love handles" and knocked off.

 

[Slamfire]

That is a very interesting series of posts. The best thing about history is remembering it the way we want rather than how it really was. I surmise that you don't have much experience riding a horse.

Yeah, I have my own biases, there is no doubt about that. It is human nature to see what we want to see and ignore the rest. I have only ridden a horse as a typical tourist, the horse understood the passenger did not know what he was doing, but he was nice to me.

My suggestion is to get rid of the extended thumb safety. You can do that by replacing it with the regular style safety or cut off the extension and reshape it.

Not a bad idea, I cannot remember reading posts where the GI safety bumped off, it has always been those extended safeties. Still, I think the thing is safer with the hammer down, as long as you can get it down, without slipping the hammer.

 

[Drail]

The problem here has nothing to do with the gun. It has very much to do with the gun bouncing around in the door pocket of a truck with the thumb safety hanging out in the breeze. Think about it. Years ago I had a customer who kept bringing me his Colt 1911 claiming that he kept finding the safety off and he wanted it fixed. I could find nothing wrong with his gun. I finally found out this only happened when he was riding his Harley with the pistol in a fanny pack over his his crotch. I asked to see the bag holster and it had a strap inside that was being constantly caught on the thumb safety and the gun would bounce up and down on the fuel tank and drag the safety off. You could see scratches in the clear coat on the top of the fuel tank. I told him to toss that holster away and find something else. I told him to do it for the sake of his bike. He did and his thumb safety problem went away.

 

[rdmercer]

One month ago I posted about the same problem with my SR1911 commander. When my extended safety sits next to the leather, it has formed an indentation for the lever to sit. When you remove the gun, the indentation pushes down on the lever causing the safety to go to fire. A Springfield GI, COLT series 70 MK4, and a Remington Rand with shorter safeties stay on safe when removed. I have 3 leather holsters and they all swipe the SR safety off, so I drimmeled it back to the regular length and it stays on safe now. Easy fix. I don't know why they lengthened it in the first place to be frank.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

If you couldn't tell I'm a little paranoid about safeties.

This is the real problem. Barring a major malfunction that gun will not fire unless the manual safety is off, the grip safety is depressed and the trigger is pulled. The odds of that randomly happening are almost a statistical zero.

Unload the gun, verify that it's unloaded, holster it, cock it and carry it around with the safety off for a week. Let us know if the hammer falls.