Taurus millennium pro safety

[swfl mike]

Hey guys. I've been reading through a lot of threads on this site and next week I'm going to purchase a millennium pro.

My question is the gun is a SA with a safety, I'm not sure what the trigger pull is like compared to say a glock, but can it be safely carried loaded with the safety off?

 

[MikePaiN]

The Millennium Pro is technically a "DA/SA" pistol, which basically means since they are striker fired pistols that the striker can be cocked & fired with a trigger pull(unlike Glock) as well as by motion of the slide. The Mill Pros also have a manual external safety.

 

[swfl mike]

So is it more dangerous to carry the mil pro with the safety off than a glock that has no safety?

 

[MikePaiN]

So is it more dangerous to carry the mil pro with the safety off than a glock that has no safety?

OMG! you are opening a can-o-worms....
The short answer is: Yes it might more "dangerous", because I believe once a round is chambered then the pistol in "SA" mode. That said I'm not 100% familiar with the Taurus Mil Pro's internal function and safety(s).

Personally, if I carry a gun with an external safety I use it. On the other hand, I don't feel any less secure(about an AD) carrying a gun designed with no external safety like Glocks.

 

[bigfatdave]

The mil pro's safety lever is swiped off about as easily as any other "down for bang" type (1911 and similar)
There is no "decock" feature, if you have a round in the pipe, the gun will be in the pre-cocked state, which is pretty close to single action.

I would carry in condition 1, cocked, locked, and a round in the chamber. In fact back when there was a mil pro in the household, that is how it was carried, with the addition of a good Kydex holster you'd be about as safe as it gets with any modern pistol.
If you must carry with the safety off, you'll still have to drill in swiping it down, the one we had was easy to engage and a bit harder to disengage. And if you insist on carrying with the safety lever in the "go bang" position, a rigid holster that prevents acess to the trigger AND has no possibility of allowing a snag while holstering is needed.

Just use the safety lever, is isn't too badly designed, you'll find it natural to swipe down after a few hundred repetitions during dryfire practice with your quality holster and some snap-caps.

 

[DasFriek]

I owned a PT745 which was the single stack .45 version of the PT145.
The triggers on these guns are odd, But i would never carry it chambered and safety off.
Its not like a Glock physically in the trigger pull.
The Millinium Pro trigger is long but 3/4 of it is very lite slack and the 1/4th is a short crisp break.
Imo the Glock is a maybe a bit shorter pull but it has full tension threw the whole pull.
So it takes more physical force for a Glock to be fired than the Mil Pro.

Keep it cocked and locked like it was designed to be carried.

 

[Nushif]

I'd say keep it cocked and locked for sure.
But I gotta ask why the safety won't be engaged. I can understand it in some like ... button safety, but the one on a Millennium Pro is real easy to swipe off. I like my Kahr, too, for the lack of a manual safety, but like I said, it's not that hard to train to swipe a safety.

P.S. All this talk about Millennium PRos is bad. I am finding it harder and harder to resist the temptation of a nice little blackened 9mm variety.

 

[swfl mike]

Alright thanks for the responses guys. I don't mind carrying with safety on, I think I might actually prefer it after getting aquainted with gun. I was just wondering if safety off was a viable option.