Ok, I'm quite a ways from seriously considering carrying a hand gun (don't even know yet which hand gun I want to buy)... but was thinking about condition of readiness.
I don't like cocked and locked because I'm not yet proficient, and I fear the safety could be knocked off and the trigger pull be too light. But I'm not wanting to debate that... I have a "new" condition of readiness.
Cocked on an empty chamber. The safety is on, the magazine is full, but the hammer is cocked. On one of the handguns I looked at, there was quite a difference between racking the slide and cocking the hammer, and racking the slide when the hammer was already cocked. Also, the safety did not prevent racking the slide. (This was a CZ52)
So, the firearm is relatively safe-- there's the internal safety, the manual safety as well. IF the manual safety is knocked off, AND the trigger is somehow jostled with enough pressure, the hammer will drop on an empty chamber.
That's quite a safe situation, it seems to me.
On the other hand, if you need the firearm, you simply rack the slide and swipe the safety an you're in condition 0.
Racking the slide is very easy when the hammer is already cocked.... so it seems like something I could do rather quickly, and the safety can be disengaged by the firing hand at the same time, or at any point.
I know everyone has their own preferred carry mode, I'm posting this to hear what the proper condition code for it would be (is it really condition three?) And also would like to hear any legal or tactical issues with this mode of carry.
It seems like a good compromise to me.
Don
I don't like cocked and locked because I'm not yet proficient, and I fear the safety could be knocked off and the trigger pull be too light. But I'm not wanting to debate that... I have a "new" condition of readiness.
Cocked on an empty chamber. The safety is on, the magazine is full, but the hammer is cocked. On one of the handguns I looked at, there was quite a difference between racking the slide and cocking the hammer, and racking the slide when the hammer was already cocked. Also, the safety did not prevent racking the slide. (This was a CZ52)
So, the firearm is relatively safe-- there's the internal safety, the manual safety as well. IF the manual safety is knocked off, AND the trigger is somehow jostled with enough pressure, the hammer will drop on an empty chamber.
That's quite a safe situation, it seems to me.
On the other hand, if you need the firearm, you simply rack the slide and swipe the safety an you're in condition 0.
Racking the slide is very easy when the hammer is already cocked.... so it seems like something I could do rather quickly, and the safety can be disengaged by the firing hand at the same time, or at any point.
I know everyone has their own preferred carry mode, I'm posting this to hear what the proper condition code for it would be (is it really condition three?) And also would like to hear any legal or tactical issues with this mode of carry.
It seems like a good compromise to me.
Don