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With a speed loader, you can put 12 down the pipe pretty fast, although I prefer putting 18 down the pipe with my Glock

[quote="SlowDave"]Just so you know it's not unanimous, I carry w/o one in the chamber. I carry "a club" and plan to give it to my attacker so HE will then have a club and I can whip his butt with my keychain while he tries to beat me to death with my useless firearm. [/sarcasm]


Dave, I don't think anyone is personally flaming you, i do think with the right training you will feel as comfortable with one in the chamber as you feel now about not having one ready. I understand you think they are equally as fast and that might be true standing in front of a target concentrating on your draw. the problem arises when other factor are involved, such as movement, low light no light, tunnel vision, wounds, all that training squared off at the target goes out the window

At the end of the day, We just want you to win the fight
bill

Take a FOF class, make that at night or low light. Even with training tunnel vision makes you do stupid stuff. Like kill the good guys, run out of ammo and you can not get a mag in fast enough before your hammered. Most encounters will be reactionary, we often dream about being the hero were we have sneaked up on the BG and won the West.
Next time do FOF with just face protection and a tee shirt, It hurts like heck and tunnel vision is even more a problem. You will probably get shot before you draw and while you are tearing up and can not see, manipulation of your 1911 just became that much harder.
Just a thought, bill

A definitive answer to this can be ascertained from tactical training schools, I do not know of any that train without a round chambered.