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Select your carry mode

I most often carry...

  • A semi without a manual safety, chambered

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  • A semi without a manual safety, unchambered

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A cocked and unsafetied 1911, TDA or hammerless

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A cocked and locked 1911, TDA or hammerless

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A decocked TDA

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  • A decocked 1911

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • An unchambered 1911, TDA or hammerless

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • An unloaded gun of any kind

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A revolver

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  • Some other way

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Liko81

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The other question on this thread, whether you carry with safety on or off, is misleading. I carry safety off because I carry a decocked TDA, so the only difference between that and a cocked unsafetied pistol is I'm pulling a 10-lb trigger. And of course, safeties are the minority; most hammerless weapons and virtually all revolvers have no manual safety, only passive safeties like pin blocks, trigger latches and DA trigger weights.

So, without getting too specific aboutexactly whatyou carry, here are some more options about how you carry that also explain the ramifications. "I have the safety off becauseit's adecocked TDA" imples a diffferent state of readiness than "I have the safety off on a cocked 1911".
 

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I wish you had set up the poll to allow multiple answers as I carry either a condition 1 no manual safety or a condition 1 de-cocked DA/SA depending.
 

Liko81

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tattedupboy wrote:
Your poll is about as close to being all-inclusive on this topic as any I have ever seen.
To clarify further; I consider decock-only TDAs like Sigs and some Rugers to be decocked TDAs, not guns without a manual safety. Glocks, XDs and safety-less M&Ps are whatI was thinking of when i wrote that first option, so if any of you with decock-only carry pieces voted for no manual safety, feel free to change your vote. Not sure if anyone did this (of course the safe-action weapons are popular), just letting everyone know.
 

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My primary carry gun is my Bersa T380, which I carry decocked with a round in the chamber. When I carry my XD, I've got a round chambered.
 

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I am a new gun owner and pretty psyched/nervous about open carry. I have been trying to decide on which way to carry. I have a Beretta M9 and currently plan on carrying with the safety on and chambered. I am getting an XD 45 within the next two weeks and I plan on carrying that chambered as well.
 

asforme

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tattedupboy wrote:
Your poll is about as close to being all-inclusive on this topic as any I have ever seen.
You could have included 2 revolver options, with or without one under the hammer.

Many people compare safetyless autos to revolvers, but I would say this is inaccurate. For the revolver trigger to be pulled the chamber must be able to spin and the hammer must be capable of going rearward. Putting pressure on the back of the hammer can prevent an ND while holstering, and the inability of the cylinder to rotate can prevent an ND while holstered. Just food for thought.
 

ConditionThree

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Yes, someone voted "An unloaded gun of any kind".

That was me.

In most cases I must carry in Condition Four (ie: an empty weapon, loaded magazine seperate), because the current law makes it a crime to carrya loaded weapon in incorporated city limits as well as in areas where discharge is prohibited.

A right unexersized, is a right surrendered... I hope that other open carry pathfinders will take this to heart, especially in anti-gun strongholds like California.
 

Liko81

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tattedupboy wrote:
By the way, what does TDA mean?
TDA means "Traditional Double-Action", also known as a "double-single" or "DA/SA". It is capable of firing with the hammer down, by cocking and firing the weapon with a heavy trigger pull. Subsequent shots are single-action unlike a DAO (Double-Action Only - some Sigs, Rugers, and H&Ks fire this way but it's an unpopular option).
 

David.Car

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Liko81 wrote:
tattedupboy wrote:
By the way, what does TDA mean?
TDA means "Traditional Double-Action", also known as a "double-single" or "DA/SA". It is capable of firing with the hammer down, by cocking and firing the weapon with a heavy trigger pull. Subsequent shots are single-action unlike a DAO (Double-Action Only - some Sigs, Rugers, and H&Ks fire this way but it's an unpopular option).
DAO also known as DAK. Actually is fairly popular with different crowds. It is a very common law enforcement set up for every pull to be DA.
 

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it depends...99% of the time its got one in the tube ready to go. 2 safetys need to be engaged on my XD to make it go bang.

the other 1%, it's loaded, but not chambered.
 
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