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I've never "carried" a 1911, but back in the 80's I shot with a local IPSC club. I never thought about the safety. It was alway on, and "snicking" if off was just part of bringing the gun on target. As soon as I was finished shooting, it went back on. Never saw a problem with it. If I was to ever carry a 1911, it would be cocked and locked.
My carry guns now are a Makarov, and a Smith and Wesson 39-2. Both are conventional DA/SA semi's. The "safety/decocker" works differently on both. On the Makarov you sweep it down to disengage. On the S&W you have to push the "safety" up, which forces you to shift your hand on the grip. The Makarov's downward motion is more "natural" at least to me.
It really doesn't matter, because I carry them both with safety in the "off" position, but if I had to, I prefer the downward movement of the Mak.
I'm in the camp that says if the gun has one, it should be used. Although possibly not essential for DA/SA type guns, it's one of those things you may forget to deactivate if you carry it "off safe" and it winds up "on safe" when it's time to use it. I carry DA guns with no mechanical safety so I don't have to deal with the issue.
IMO, if you find the safety on your gun to be a hindrance to a quick draw and use, perhaps it's simply a poorly designed gun.
A GOOD safety should be able to be swiped off with the thumb without moving your hand at all from your firing position.
And the problem with saying that your safety is your finger or between your ears and you don't need anything else is that that only works until it doesn't. One time. The mechanical safety is there to make sure that that one time is only an "oops" and not a "BANG".
My carry guns are variants of DAO or revolvers and don't have manual safeties. As far as using other types of safeties, it depends on the gun. For a single-action auto carried cocked and locked, naturally you use the safety. For a DA/SA auto with a slide-mounted safety, I carry with the safety off, only using it as a decocker, as it is quite difficult to disengage these safeties when drawing.
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