If you carry cocked and locked, have you ever at days end found your safety off?

[mljdeckard]

One time I pulled it out of a fanny pack to find the safety off, I don't know what caused it. I carry hammer down with that rig now.

 

[Khornet]

Once

my S&W 1911Sc. Had been lugging a lot of heavy sacks braced against the hip where the pistol rides, and must have knocked it off doing that.

I probably wouldn't have found out until much later, but I have this habit of sneaking a feel as I go through my day just to be sure, and that's how I found it.
Hasn't happened since.

I can't imagine any thumb safety that couldn't be swiped off with the right activity, such as what I was doing.

 

[MD_Willington]

Nope!

Here is my setup:

 

[Sniper X]

Yep, but I check it all the time

Of course, but I usually check it from time to time along the day when no ones around say about 15 times a day. Just good safe practice. Just reach down and place a finger below it and lock it up....1911 of course.

 

[Kevinch]

what safety?

getting a kick from the Glock guys!

Just look at it this way - even if the thumb safety does snap off, with the grip safety you still have 1 more active than a Glock, although I wouldn't advocate carrying that way.

 

[Sniper X]

A lot of guys who use 1911s for competition disconect the grip safety, they say it provides a better feeling trigger. One of my 1911s is like this but I bought it that way. It does have a standard safety, and no I wouldn;t carry it. One reason is it has about a 2lb trigger....no good in the court room if I had to shoot someone with it.

 

[B52Wing]

I sometimes carry my Para. It has the LDA trigger so it isn't much of a concern. I do carry with the safety on and have checked and found it was off. Again, not much of a concern and I sweep the safety off on my draw so no issue there.

 

[TexasRifleman]

A lot of guys who use 1911s for competition disconect the grip safety, they say it provides a better feeling trigger.

It does, my Colt Delta here has the grip safety pinned but I sure won't carry the thing. It's also nice if you are drawing at a match and don't get a perfect grip, you can fire once or twice then re adjust the grip as you move.

The other one,the Razorback, I've carried off and on since I got it and have never had the safety disengage accidentally.

Carried in shoulder holster, OWB and IWB and never had problems.

 

[DaltonSpringfield]

Cheap-O Holster + Extended Ambi-Saftey + swinging arm when walking = *click* YIKES

Got a better holster, never happened again.

 

[CWL]

Yes. Cheap Galco holster. Have never had it happen when using better-designed holsters.

 

[AK103K]

A lot has to do with your holster choice, gun, and how physical you are.

Early on I learned not to use a holster with a thumb strap. The strap on the Galco holster I was using would take the safety of every time. It stopped when I cut off the strap, and I usually didnt have a problem with any of the open top holsters after that, but on occasion, especially after heavy exertion, it would be off.

I've also found my Firestar and High Powers safeties off on occasion. Its not really an issue with any of them, grip safety or not, if its in a holster and the trigger is covered.

What annoyed me more than my 1911's safeties being off was getting out of the truck and continually finding my HK P7's mag on the front seat. The pressure from the seat belt would release it every time.

 

[stevelyn]

Yes, lots of times. Nothing to worry about as long as there are no fingers inside the trigger.

 

[jlh26oo]

(disengaging the grip safety is) also nice if you are drawing at a match and don't get a perfect grip, you can fire once or twice then re adjust the grip as you move.

Hey, that might be a nice feature for ANYtime, not just a match!



Well, the results of this poll surprised me. Over a third of you HAVE found safeties off while carrying... except that you have to consider since a few posted here who don't even carry c&l'd, there might have been a few point & clickers who confounded the poll results.

What's most interesting to me is not so much the numbers themselves, but how attitudes toward this phenomenon vary so wildly. Breaks down into these groups:

-those who have never found their safeties off declare so with so much conviction that they are often surprised this is even a question- much less that it could actually happen to anyone.

-some who have found their safeties off consider it to be more of a curiosity than a safety liability, with the manual thumb safety being only one link in the entire safety system.

-then others it alarms enough to alter their carry rig, swap safety configuration (ambi, oversized), or change ccw's or carry type altogether.

 

[hnk45acp]

on my HK uspc 9mm
safety: never
thumb break: yes

 

[FJC]

I've never had it happen, but I always carry a 1911 in a leather holster that covers the safety. All the quality holsters I've used have held that safety in place properly.

 

[MythBuster]

It does not really matter what they say. If one carries , handles, and uses a cocked and locked 1911 on a regular basis sooner or later you WILL find it with the safety worked to the off position.

 

[LiquidTension]

The safety on my 1911 has disengaged in the glove box, but never in a holster. I started keeping a cheap Uncle Mike's holster in the glove box and that helped. It also keeps things from getting scratched.

 

[Titan6]

Never off safe but once I reached down and the whole gun was gone.

It had fallen out of the holster when I had gotten out of a vehicle and I did not notice it. Thank whatever G-d looks over 2LTs. It was still attched to my lanyard. Still that was a heart pounding moment I will never forget