Five-O
Member
I notice that many pictures that are posted of guns, especially semi-autos, show the hammer cocked. Why is that? Any particular reason? Safety reason?
Just curious
Eddie
Just curious
Eddie
No, not if you get proper training in presenting a gun from the holster and adhere to rule 3 and keep your finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard until the gun is on target and you are actually going to fire it.Five-O said:...I'm thinking that if you carry cocked, couldn't it go off when you unholster it?...
Why are hammers cocked in pictures?
At that point you can engage the safety and it will be "cocked & locked".Five-O said:Now, if I put a full magazine in, it's basically unable to fire until I pull back the slide and I chamber a round, right? Ok, at that point, at what position is the hammer? It's cocked, right? Is this the way a .45 is carried, with the hammer back?
It is more unsafe to decock it and carry a 1911 hammer down on a live round.Five-O said:Why not close the hammer (carefully) and just cock it when you need to fire? I'm thinking that if you carry cocked, couldn't it go off when you unholster it?
War Department said:Basic Field Manuel
Automatic Pistol
Caliber .45
M1911 And 1911A1
Section IV
Functioning
.12 Method Of Operation
b. If it is desired to make the pistol ready for instant use and for firing the maximum number of shots with the least possible delay, draw back the slide, insert a cartridge by hand into the chamber of the barrel, allow the slide to close, then lock the slide and the cocked hammer by pressing the safety lock upward and insert a loaded magazine. The slide and hammer being thus positively locked may be carried safely at full cock and its only necessary to press down the safety lock when raising the pistol to the firing position.
You could do that until the hammer spur wore down to a nub, and the gun would not fire.MythBuster should try dropping his condition two .45 on to a hard surface, hammer first a few times...