How on Earth is this thread still going? What else can possibly be added to either side of the argument? Please stop this.
If you're worried about accidental firing, or otherwise unsure, practice. Load and cock without a magazine, load your full mag, practice your draw, and carry for a week or two like that.Every refence I see aboutthe "Israeli method" begins with racking a round at presentation. Seems to add about a second to battery.
They know a little about guns.
What are the pros and cons?
Your practice?
Gonna try that, thanks! My hands aren't very good after "relatively" successful surgery on both, so I've been 'taking my time' after getting my W&C last year.If you're worried about accidental firing, or otherwise unsure, practice. Load and cock without a magazine, load your full mag, practice your draw, and carry for a week or two like that.
If, after some time, you don't accidentally fire with just a click, you'll convince yourself a load in the pipe is safe.
I've never carried because I am new to handguns but I hope I can become more comfortable by practicing carrying unchambered. I don't think leaving it at home will build the experience I need.Not sure why you would do that. If you are uncomfortable with carrying a gun with a round in the chamber leave it home.
I'll say this again like I always say. Unload and make your gun empty and safe. Cock it. Carry it around the house, handle it, throw it down, put it in your pocket, place things in the trigger guard, etc... Do everything you can to make it go off without actually pressing the trigger. You will find that it is very difficult to do.I've never carried because I am new to handguns but I hope I can become more comfortable by practicing carrying unchambered. I don't think leaving it at home will build the experience I need.
You are probably going to have to keep saying this for a long time...but thank youI'll say this again like I always say. Unload and make your gun empty and safe. Cock it. Carry it around the house, handle it, throw it down, put it in your pocket, place things in the trigger guard, etc... Do everything you can to make it go off without actually pressing the trigger. You will find that it is very difficult to do.
This will familiarize yourself with it and help you with the confidence you need to carry it hot.
I've never carried because I am new to handguns but I hope I can become more comfortable by practicing carrying unchambered. I don't think leaving it at home will build the experience I need.
100% muscle memory for Israeli carry is not even a concern for the carry. It has zero to do with Israeli carry. The possibility of not having your support hand available to perform that "100% muscle memory" ritual IS the concern.Practice eventually becomes habit, and IMHO doing Israeli Carry is a bad idea unless you have 100% muscle memory that you're doing it when you do it. This muscle memory comes from always having done that way and never deviating from it. That's honestly very rare IMHO.
As for me: I would never Israeli Carry. Things happen too quickly and there are too many things that can go wrong in a scenario for a draw that allows for racking the slide to chamber a round. When I draw, I'm confident and practiced that my firearm is chambered every time for what I need it for.
I recommend you start carrying it empty without a magazine around your home first. You'll get over these initial jitters, but carrying with an empty chamber is a bad idea. Things happen too quickly, and I would never do it for that and many other reasons.
100% muscle memory for Israeli carry is not even a concern for the carry. It has zero to do with Israeli carry. The possibility of not having your support hand available to perform that "100% muscle memory" ritual IS the concern.
Now you are just posting to watch yourself talk.If you haven't done Israeli Carry from the very beginning, then it absolutely is a muscle memory factor if it's a later-adopted practice.
It's the same reason I don't mix hammer and striker firearms.
Practice with one becomes habit.
Practice with the other becomes habit.
Forget there's a decocker on the hammer-fired one because you're gaining practice/habit with the striker-fired one which doesn't have a decocker..... You know the rest.
Not good to mix practice/habits here IMHO.
I'm still wondering how I can get used to carrying in condition 1.As for the OP's original post, I think with another 4-5000 posts we'll have the answer. Let's go !
Buy a 1911I'm still wondering how I can get used to carrying in condition 1.