If your main carry pistol is a 1911 type: end of day storage?

[CDW4ME]

If you carry a 1911 pistol of any make, how do you store it when you get home?
Cocked & locked?
Empty chamber?
Condition 2?
If you carry condition 1 do you just leave it that way?
For security, maybe you will put it in an electronic safe beside your bed.

 

[CajunBass]

I take the holster and pistol off my belt, and lay them both on top of my dresser. In the morning I put them back on.

 

[Nasty]

Cajunbass is dead on...condition one 24/7/364

It gets Xmas off.

 

[earlthegoat2]

I take it out of the holster and put it on the nightstand. Or I just leave it on the nightstand if I carry my snubby that day.

BTW: I have a Hi Power not a 1911 but for the purposes of your question this also works.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Never empty. Never anything but condition one. Always loaded, cocked and locked.

 

[GJW1911]

Condition one all the time, except my weekly range trips where it is removed from the holster, fired, cleaned, put back in condition one and re-holstered.

 

[Lucky 7]

Ditto here. BHP, 1911s, and Witnesses all Condition 1, all the time. Just remember to brush off that lint that gets in there, but that should be a given. Right?

Regards,
Lucky

 

[Zerodefect]

Cocked and locked all the time.

I may remove it from the holster though. Mostly to shake out holster sand and let the gun air out a little.

 

[Ala Dan]

Always in condition 1, "cocked and locked" inside my RSC; for easy acqusition~!

 

[sidheshooter]

From commander down to little sig P238, it's the same for me as for everyone else above.

+1, con 1.

 

[JDGray]

Always ready to go! If its not on my hip, its still in the holster on top of the fridge. If my carry guns are in a holster, they're ready to rock & roll, if they're out of their holster, they are cleared.

 

[jeepguy]

cocked & locked at all times, unless im cleaning it or at the range.

 

[CDW4ME]

This thread is worthy of a bump back to life.

 

[IlikeSA]

In the holster, C&L, on the nightstand next to my wallet, cell phone, and pocket knife, with an extra mag. In fact, the only time I unload it is to clean it. Being away from it for going on a few months now, its been C&L in a safe for almost 6 months.

 

[Xfire68]

I don't own a 1911 but, condition 1 is how I store my CZ 75B on my nightstand.

 

[rellascout]

Cocked and locked next to my bed. This is the same for my BHP which I also carry cocked and locked.

 

[Rail Driver]

Cocked and locked on my nightstand next to my phone and flashlight. Now I just have to figure out how to attach a third arm I don't like pistol mounted lights though I do see a use for them.

 

[bigfatdave]

Cocked, locked, chambered, and in the same holster I carry it in.
For that matter, half the time that holster is on my belt in yesterday's pants, along with an extra mag (sometimes two), pocketknife, light, and other pocket crap I'll just need again tomorrow.

And the same applies for every gun I'd carry, they either exist in the safe cleared or in a holster ready to go, anything in between has no use for me.

 

[Deanimator]

I take off my IWB or remove my pocket holster, either with the gun still in it and put it on the bed next to me.

 

[Zach S]

I take the holster and pistol off my belt, and lay them both on top of my dresser. In the morning I put them back on.

Same here.

Its in C1 unless I'm reloading it or actually cleaning it...

 

[Cards81fan]

I store in condition three, but then I rarely carry my 1911. If it is being "stored" I am wiping it down and cleaning it out. Since that usually necessitates me emptying the pistol of ammunition, it goes into condition three when I am finished.

If I carried the 1911 more often, It would be condition 1; take the holster off the belt, and put it in the the pistol safe (in the holster and all). It is how I store all my guns I regularly carry (LCP and XD) - the condition in which I would shoot them. As mentioned, I do leave them in the holster.

 

[hogcowboy]

Always the same as I carry, in condition 1, "cocked and locked".

 

[230therapy]

If it's loaded, it's "on duty". Any gun I have that is "on duty" is ready to go: "cocked and locked" for 1911's.

 

[Creature]

Any weapon stowed with a bullet in the chamber, in the event of a fire, could "cook off" and will send the bullet down the barrel. Not really a hazard while stored in a heavy duty gun safe. But the posibility of the gun going off still exists.

 

[M2 Carbine]

While I carry my Kimbers cocked and locked, all the guns around the house are kept with a full magazine and empty chamber.
I seldom go to town so the carry Kimbers also have an empty chamber while at the house.

I started this some years ago because I use a Streamlight TLR-2 equipped Ruger 22/45 for a walking around the place at night gun.
Since I'm handling this gun while doing chores I thought it best to not have the chamber loaded. In the interest of uniformity I keep all the gun chambers empty.

This policy isn't set in stone and if local conditions deteriorate I'll go to all guns having loaded chambers all the time.