What Condition do you Carry In? (POLL)

[WalHam]

I just wanted to conduct a quick poll to find out in what condition you carry your firearm in. If you could take the poll, I would appreciate it. Any added information anyone can provide, would be helpful.

Thanks.

 

[Mil Novecientos Once]

If the big chunck of steel (1911) is behind my hip it is carried cocked & locked. When I carry the little blaster (CS9) it is carried 7+1, safety off.

 

[WalHam]

Thanks. What about in your home?

 

[cool45auto]

Loaded, one in the chamber, safety off. With the D model spacer I can carry cocked and safety on, too, but rarely do.

 

[HABU]

I carry my 1911 cocked and locked. Before I wised up I carried with one in the chamber and hammer down, DOH! What a dum dum I was.

 

[Kcustom45]

I realized a long time ago that a 1911 was meant to be carried cocked and locked.
Hammer down on loaded chamber is a very bad idea with a 1911, IMHO.

 

[Mike Irwin]

I carry mine in revolver mode.

As in I normally carr a revolver, with the cylinder fully stoked.

 

[Schuey2002]

I carry my G19 loaded to the brim, with one in the chamber.

 

[P95Carry]

Currently - I am in ''condition Irwin'' ......... snub, fully stoked!!

If I am using a P series tho then ... well, a sorta cheat in a way ... cos they are both DC .. and so they are ....... one in chamber and full mag ..... but of course require a D/A to ''set em off'' ..... but no safety to worry about!

 

[MeekandMild]

Nice thing about the new generation of Tupperware guns. They are easy to carry with one in the chamber or just a slide rack away from readiness.

Some weeks ago I had a bonafide nut job come pound on my front door. I took the time to rack my Glock slide before going out to meet him. The sound through the closed door seemed to levitate him right off the porch and he was very polite standing way back in the yard when I opened the door to talk. With the Glock in my pocket it was one of those 2 million cases a year of nonlethal self defence nobody ever reads about.

 

[XLMiguel]

My carry guns are either SIGs, which have a disconnect and firing pin block, or 1911A1, which goes C&L, so I'm comfy with one in the tube. All in all, safety is in the mind of the user, not some mechanical device.

 

[mdsteele]

At home? Same way, fully loaded and chambered.

 

[blades67]

I carry with a round in the chamber, always.

 

[Standing Wolf]

My normal carry gun is a revolver. On the infrequent occasions when I pack my model 1911, it's as John Moses Browning intended: cocked and locked.

 

[HogRider]

Loaded in chamber - couldn't even think of any other way! Ok - exception old model single action Colts and Blackhawks ..

 

[voilsb]

Cocked and Locked.

 

[Hazwaste]

1 in the pipe, full mag w/ no safety for my two DAO sidearms.

1 in the pipe and full mag w/ safety for my old Browning Model 1922.

All 5 holes filled when carrying my wife's Taurus revolver.

Same way at home. Though I don't plan to use a pistol for home defense unless I can't get to my real guns.

 

[Ala Dan]

Hello!

I carry a .45 caliber SIG-SAUER P220A, always with one
up the pipe; and ready to

ROCK N' ROLL !

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[Edward429451]

My Series 80 1911 has been cocked and locked for the better part of the last twenty years. Hammer down for cleaning, then back in the holster C&L.

Revolvers are all fully stoked cept for my Old model Super Bearcat non modernized, and my FA 22 mini revolver only gets four.

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

Is this a trick question?

How can it be loaded with the chamber empty?

Is this one of those "legal" definition issues?

1911 C&L at all times.
Revo full house
Brain engaged

Oh yeah, those plastic things.
Loaded and with one in the tube

 

[rayjay]

I carry all my auto's loaded but not chambered. I was taught to draw and chamber while bringing the weapon up to the target. When I carry a 1911 it's cocked and locked.

 

[clubsoda22]

a fan of the israeli draw, huh ray?

I can't carry yet, but i'm 100% sure that it would be my bersa with safety off and a round chambered (7+1)

Back home i keep my pistols in a locked draw so i have a loaded mag and nothing in the chamber of my HK USP .40. This is because i'm not often home and more often in my dorm. When i get my own place the gun will be ready to go with one in the chamber. This is because my own place will be in the city. My HD shotgun never has anything in the chamber but a full mag tube. This is because i want to rack the slide at the top of the stairs to scare off any wrongdoers before i have to put it "in service"

 

[Tamara]

For CCW, Autos cocked and locked, revolvers fully loaded.
"User" long guns at home in "cruiser ready" (empty chamber, full mag, safety off).

 

[Hkmp5sd]

At home or out....

Autoloaders have round chambered, safety off. Revolvers are fully stoked. Longguns are chamber empty, mag/tube full and safety off.

 

[OH25shooter]

You left out a spot: 'unlawful to carry in your state'. Not all of us are treated equally.