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- Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:47 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Carry method?
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Re: Carry method?
What are you planning on doing when you need your other hand for something else?
- Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:50 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Carry method?
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Re: Carry method?
I tell ya, SlowDave, you really need to try racking the slide in some kind of controlled drill and see how that works out for you. I'm willing to bet it doesn't. Your handgun is designed to be carried with a round in the chamber. Are you really willing to risk your life because of some nebulous fear of a loaded gun that has been planted in your mind somehow. People carry loaded guns every day. Done properly, in a proper holster, it is perfectly safe.
I know you didn't want to hear this, but it really is true: a gun that isn't loaded is just a club. As a practical matter, if you don't have a round in the chamber the gun really isn't loaded.
I know you didn't want to hear this, but it really is true: a gun that isn't loaded is just a club. As a practical matter, if you don't have a round in the chamber the gun really isn't loaded.
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:58 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Carry method?
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Re: Carry method?
SlowDave wrote:... S&W Sigma .40, full mag, empty chamber....My thoughts are that I can rack one about as quickly as I can get on target anyway, and the minimal time-savings of not having to rack the slide is not worth the increased risk of carrying loaded to me. To those who carry with one in the pipe, can you discuss (honestly and factually) what are the driving factors or scenarios you envision that make this most critical. I'm looking to be persuaded (or not), not for tag lines (like "if it's not loaded, it's a club not a gun"). I really don't see me drawing in a situation where speed is that critical as that's too fair of a fight for my tastes. I THINK I would wait for an opportunity where the odds for me to win the fight are a bit better. The risk of course is that better opportunity might not come and I might die while waiting for it. But I also might die trying to win in a fair fight, so...
Please, good non-emotional arguments, not hyperbole.
You might want to practice that with airsoft or simunitions in a force-on-force scenario. I have a feeling you will convince yourself of the need to carry your gun ready to go. That will be the best argument there is. You coule even try that along with the Tueller Drill.
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Carry method?
- Replies: 64
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Re: Carry method?
Glock 19 IWB in a Comp-Tac Infidel w/ the shirt tucker strut. Loaded 15+1 w/ 124gr. +P Gold Dots. Extra magazine.
Carry everywhere that is legal to do so except at work where the physical realities of the job would make it painful to do so. Starting next week, though, I'm starting a new job with a defense contractor and that will be a moot point I'm sure.
Carry everywhere that is legal to do so except at work where the physical realities of the job would make it painful to do so. Starting next week, though, I'm starting a new job with a defense contractor and that will be a moot point I'm sure.