So I wake up with 1911 in hand...

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The other night I was enjoying a nice peaceful sleep when I had a dream that I was using my 1911 for self defense. The next thing I know, I am awake with my 1911 in hand, trying to rack the slide for what I thought would be a reload.:what:
I realized what I was doing and set the gun back down on the night stand but have since then switched it for my FN FAL. An uncharged rile is much more difficult to manipulate when sleeping. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
 
Wow... Never done that.

I have a friend that sleeps with a racked and loaded Glock21 under his pillow.:what:

Never had a ND/AD, but still... I keep my HD gun out of casual reach at night. I have to deliberately reach for it.
 
Many years back, my only handgun was a Super Blackhawk--- 7 1/2" barrel 44Mag. Used to sleep with said hand cannon under my pillow.

One morning, I was getting ready to go to work, but stopped to make up the bed...moved my pillow, and there it was...cocked :what: :eek: :what: :eek:

My 1911 resides on the bedside table...NOT under the pillow.
 
This is why my G23 sits on the table next to my sleeping area with nothing in the chamber. And save it, guys. When the weapon is on my person, it's cocked, locked and ready to rock. At night, it isn't. I just don't trust myself when waking up suddenly.
Biker
 
azredhawk44 said:
I keep my HD gun out of casual reach at night. I have to deliberately reach for it.
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This is what I do, too, although it may not work for some of us depending on our own individual circumstances. I would hate to think of dreaming I was in a gun situation and wake up to find that I have my gun in my hand.

In my particular circumstance, since I have kids in the house, I keep my HD firearms in easy to access handgun safes. In case of a SHTF situation I think I would have enough time to get to it because I have an alarm system in the house.
 
Biker said:
This is why my G23 sits on the table next to my sleeping area with nothing in the chamber. And save it, guys. When the weapon is on my person, it's cocked, locked and ready to rock. At night, it isn't. I just don't trust myself when waking up suddenly.
Biker
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How do you lock a G23?
 
noresttill said:
How do you lock a G23?
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I was going to ask that. =(

I remember a good post a while back of getting a cheap holster and belt, and strapping it to the head of your bed between the wall and the matress.
Good place, imo...
You can reach over to it more descretely than a bedside gun, and if you're like me, your bed is wide and you make full use of it. ;D
 
'Cocking' and 'locking' a G23...

Figure of speech, man, picked up in the Army and describing a state of readiness whether ascribed to an inatimate object or personified as in; I'm cocked, locked and ready to rock!
A bit more clear now?
Biker;)
 
sounds like the begining of a blues song

well I woke up this mornin with my 1911 in my hand
said I woke up this mornin with my 1911 in my hand
my baby done left me and joined a rock and roll band
 
Talk about scary...

I had more or less the same sort of thing happen to me about 15 years ago. I used to keep the Browning HP in the night stand with the hammer down with a round in the pipe and a full mag. Woke up from some dream or other with the thing in my hand :eek: and it was only the grace of God or whatever that i realized what was going on:what: :what: !! before something really bad might've happened.
Ever since then the pipe is always empty when in the drawer, though i still keep a full mag. in the handle. I haven't had a similar experience in all these intervening years now, but needless to say, that one time was enough to scare the snot out of me good & proper!!
 
when I first got my 1911 I was thinking about were to have it during the night, so the first night I slept with it under the pillow unloaded to be on the safe side, I woke up in the morning and the gun was laying on the floorI guess i move around alot more in my sleep than I though, now the gun stays on the floor,well within reach.
 
That is the reason I keep my HD weapon in a quick access safe near my bed. I would not want to make that kind of mistake. I know I have woken up in the kitchen making a bowl of cereal before. It is amazing the things we can do in our sleep.
 
Same here....quick access safe bolted to night stand. Although, I must admit that the safe is more for the sake of my 3 year old than it is me grabbing it while asleep.
 
My HD weapon is a Remington 870 Marine Magnum, loaded "cruiser ready" and kept at the head of my bed, leaned into the corner of the bed and wall...

makes a better defense weapon than a pistol, and it requires me to actively lift and rack it to put it into use...
 
And THAT, boys and girls....

....is why my hubster SHALL NOT keep HIS handgun at his bedside. He sleepwalks/talks/does goofy stuff. I'll be prematurely dead if he ever takes to keeping his handgun by his bed. No, scratch that; I'll just be sleeping at the other end of the house!!!

*I* am the one with the loaded handgun next to the bed. Since I am not prone to these little nocturnal adventures, I can do that. Hubster may not, cannot, should not, does not.

I can always hand him one of mine if something actually happens; but I'd be more inclined to cover him while he goes and gets the shotguns anyway.

Springmom
 
ive always feared i would wake up with my gun in my hand or something to that sort! i keep mine on my bedside table! i dont see how people keep there guns under there pillows! how uncomortable is that?! lol
 
springmom said:
....is why my hubster SHALL NOT keep HIS handgun at his bedside. He sleepwalks/talks/does goofy stuff. I'll be prematurely dead if he ever takes to keeping his handgun by his bed. No, scratch that; I'll just be sleeping at the other end of the house!!!

*I* am the one with the loaded handgun next to the bed. Since I am not prone to these little nocturnal adventures, I can do that. Hubster may not, cannot, should not, does not.

I can always hand him one of mine if something actually happens; but I'd be more inclined to cover him while he goes and gets the shotguns anyway.

Springmom
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Wow!!! On day I hope to have a woman like you. Has her own guns and is prepared to take a stand with her man!! What a woman!! :p

Luke
 
EVERYONE is active in their sleep at some time or another. People that say they are not are just not aware of it. Sleeping with a firearm is ALWAYS a bad idea. A quick access safe or other form of away from the bed location is the way to go.
 
Couple of weeks ago a guy on ARFCOM posted about an A.D. under similar circumstances. Shot right through his bed,lucky he's single :what: .He stated he was doing dry fire drill prior to going to bed.My house gun is an Ithaca 37,full tube slide locked but I used to use my Sig p228 in a holster mounted on a piece of plexiglass that was bent and slid between the mattress and box spring to hold it.Really slick set up.I might try a larger model for the Ithaca.
 
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