June 4, 2012, 04:29 PM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 23, 2012
Posts: 139
|
Do you carry +1?
Question for everyone who carries. Also for LEO.
You obviously carry with your clip full, but do you carry with one in the chamber? And if you are a in law enforcement, security ect. Do you carry with one in the chamber while on duty? I do not carry with one in the chamber and probably never will. But I could see the benefits of it if I were a on duty police officer. |
June 4, 2012, 04:33 PM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 12, 2002
Location: MO
Posts: 5,452
|
Pretty much everybody I know in LE carries one in the pipe. Same with off duty.
__________________
People were smarter before the Internet, or imbeciles were harder to notice. |
June 4, 2012, 04:34 PM | #3 |
Member
Join Date: December 24, 2008
Location: Ohio
Posts: 78
|
Always one in the chamber, otherwise you have an empty gun.
What are you gonna do when some dirt bag jumps you, say "hang on a minute while I rack my slide"? I guess you could always throw the gun at him. |
June 4, 2012, 04:38 PM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 1, 2009
Location: Stillwater, OKlahoma
Posts: 8,638
|
I do,,,
Because it doesn't make sense to have to rack a slide in an emergency situation.
Besides, not doing so would negate the SA/DA action of my fine pistol. I know a few people who carry with no round in the chamber,,, My personal opinion is that they are intentionally placing a handicap on their selves. Aarond .
__________________
Never ever give an enemy the advantage of a verbal threat. Caje: The coward dies a thousand times, the brave only once. Kirby: That's about all it takes, ain't it? Aarond is good,,, Aarond is wise,,, Always trust Aarond! (most of the time) |
June 4, 2012, 04:39 PM | #5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 14, 2011
Location: WV
Posts: 938
|
Do you mean, for instance my gun has a magazine capacity of 15, so are you asking would I carry 16 rounds? Or are you asking if we carry with the gun ready to fire with a round in the chamber?
|
June 4, 2012, 04:43 PM | #6 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 16, 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,497
|
Of course, doesn't everyone?
This debate comes up fairly often it seems and usually ends up closed after 4-5 pages or so of "yes I do" "no, I don't" or one of the former statements followed by"...and you're an idiot if you don't" Quote:
__________________
"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" - Montgomery Scott |
|
June 4, 2012, 04:52 PM | #7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 22, 2007
Location: The shores of Lake Huron
Posts: 4,783
|
Cocked and locked, always.
__________________
Stevie-Ray Join the NRA/ILA I am the weapon; my gun is a tool. It's regrettable that with some people those descriptors are reversed. |
June 4, 2012, 06:31 PM | #8 |
Staff
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
|
I carry whenever I legally can, and I always carry with a round in the chamber. I'm not going to count on having the use of both hands in an emergency.
__________________
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper |
June 4, 2012, 06:38 PM | #9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 18, 2011
Location: 609 NJ
Posts: 705
|
Load chamber, then insert FULL magazine.
|
June 4, 2012, 06:40 PM | #10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: August 30, 2009
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 475
|
I am not going to bet the life of myself or a loved one that I'll have the opportunity to rack my slide in a confrontation. Fine motor skills are known to erode quickly in a panic situation. I ALWAYS carry with one in the chamber.
|
June 4, 2012, 09:14 PM | #11 |
Junior member
Join Date: November 12, 2000
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Posts: 9,494
|
Frank beat me to it. You will be lucky if you have one hand free if you're attacked.
I'm always +1 C&L. |
June 4, 2012, 09:18 PM | #12 |
Junior member
Join Date: April 18, 2008
Location: N. Central Florida
Posts: 8,518
|
With a revolver, you ALWAYS have one in the chamber..........
|
June 4, 2012, 09:24 PM | #13 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 27, 2008
Location: midwest
Posts: 4,209
|
guns are carried full
__________________
rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6 Quote:
|
|
June 4, 2012, 09:25 PM | #14 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 22, 2011
Location: OKC
Posts: 502
|
Always one in the pipe. Also all chambers loaded on my revolver too. As stated your not ready for anything if you have to rack the slide before firing.
|
June 4, 2012, 09:34 PM | #15 |
Member
Join Date: December 22, 2011
Posts: 16
|
ALWAYS. What happens if at a moments notice u need to defend yourself? Do say-please wait while i chamber a round?. Plus, u dont want adrhenaline to muck up your chambering a round or find out at that life n death moment ur round jammed. ALWAYS
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2 |
June 4, 2012, 10:07 PM | #16 |
Member
Join Date: June 3, 2012
Location: The Farm, but not THE Farm
Posts: 25
|
Rule number 1, Every gun is always loaded has a dual meaning. My 1911 is always carried in condition one
I have a colleague and friend who leaves his home defense (Night Stand) pistol in condition three as a safety precaution (wife, kid) I may not agree but it works for him. |
June 4, 2012, 10:24 PM | #17 |
Junior member
Join Date: May 16, 2009
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 1,343
|
Almost everyone does and if not they should. Well, not everyone. There's some people who shouldn't even carry, period.
|
June 4, 2012, 10:27 PM | #18 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 2, 2005
Location: Where the deer and the antelope roam.
Posts: 3,082
|
I carry all the ammo I can, within reason. Never heard anyone that had been in a gun fight that they had too much ammo.
ALWAYS one in the pipe.
__________________
Retired Law Enforcement U. S. Army Veteran Armorer My rifle and pistol are tools, I am the weapon. |
June 4, 2012, 10:46 PM | #19 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 14, 1999
Posts: 1,573
|
I never saw a good clarification from the OP ... it seems like two questions were being rolled into one.
1. Do you carry with one in the chamber? ALWAYS 2. Do you carry with a topped off mag? Different question, but for me the same answer. If I am willing to do a tactical reload (which puts the pistol in that +1 condition) then I can't see any reason not to carry it FullMag+1. Saands |
June 4, 2012, 10:46 PM | #20 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 31, 2010
Location: N.C.
Posts: 1,522
|
Of course I do; both when on-duty, and when on my own time.
__________________
Seen on a bumper sticker: "Exercise. Eat right. Take vitamins. Die anyway." |
June 4, 2012, 10:52 PM | #21 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 9, 2008
Posts: 972
|
Without a round in the chamber you are asking for serious trouble. Why bother carrying an unloaded gun?
|
June 4, 2012, 10:56 PM | #22 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 29, 2010
Location: The ATL (OTP)
Posts: 3,942
|
Fully loaded not sure why you wouldn't.
__________________
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman |
June 5, 2012, 12:18 AM | #23 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 19, 2005
Location: southwestern va
Posts: 830
|
always carry with one in the pipe unless youre really good at pistol whipping or sprinting backwards while racking your slide
__________________
"i got the most powerful gun in the world........an .88 magnum. It shoots thru schools......" |
June 5, 2012, 12:36 AM | #24 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 29, 2011
Location: Missouri
Posts: 1,097
|
Of course. Why would you not carry with one in the chamber?
__________________
My EDC: Gun Wallet Brain (Use this one the most) |
June 5, 2012, 04:25 AM | #25 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 4, 2011
Location: Vermont
Posts: 1,552
|
Of course I do. Why would anyone not do that?
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|