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Cocked and Locked, condition one, whatever else you wanna call it.

Only way to fly.

-nick

I've carried cocked and locked now for 36 years and have never had a problem, just remember.....finger OFF the trigger, until sights are ON the target.

Condition 1. Always.

txinvestigator wrote:I carry the way God inspired JMB to design the gun to be carried. Condition 1. Anything less makes it a club. ;)

I like that, txi.

I carry mine cocked and locked. I wasn't aware there was any other way.

"And yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I fear no evil, for I go cocked and locked." _ Psalm 1911

C & L is the only way to carry a 1911. Been that way since I started.

And what's wrong with Glocks? Love my Glock as much as my 1911.

Oh man, hope that don't make me A GUN NUT

GUN NUT is a perjorative term. I am a firearms enthusiast.

revjen45 wrote:GUN NUT is a perjorative term. I am a firearms enthusiast.

GUN NUT is considered a "pejorative" term by certain Liberals, but who cares what they think.


If I happen to be feeling politically correct (which is almost never), I will refer to myself as being an Enthusiast, Affectionado, or whatever you like. But day in and day out, I'm just a plain 'ol "Gun Nut".

I don't own a 1911 yet, but I am certainly squirreling my $$ away to get one. In the mean time, I have come across an article from Concealed Carry Magazine that was posted on SmartCarry.com concerning the 1911 carry condition.

http://www.smartcarry.com/cocklock.htm

Hoss

This really has nothing to do with carry condition but I thought I would like to share my first expierience with a 1911.

In the late sixties I was stationed overseas in the Philippines at a small communications station called San Miguel. I worked in a classified area which had a back door where soda deliveries were made by by local personnel. Our security proceedures required that whenever this door was opened someone must be stationed at the door with a loaded firearm.

Needles to say the firearm kept for this detail was not one of the newer or better maintained 45's.

On one occassion I got the firearm, inserted the magazine and racked the slide-----you guessed it BANG. Finger was nowhere near the trigger and gun was pointed in a safe direction (though there was a typewriter that was suddenly in need of MAJOR repairs) The 45 was imeediately replaced and an SOP written that required an inspection by an armorer every six months.


Anyway this perversly started my interest in handguns and I shortly thereafter became a member of the base pistol team and competed at local matches.

When I finished my Naval service I returned to NY - Nassau County which had the effect of putting my interest on hold for 35years until I moved to Texas last September.

Dave B.

bauerdj wrote:This really has nothing to do with carry condition but I thought I would like to share my first expierience with a 1911.

Reminds me of my first experience with a USGI 1911.

I had just arrived at my first permanent duty station, Downs Barracks in Fulda, FRG. Home of the prestigious 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.

Being a redleg, I was assigned to Howitzer Battery, 1/11 ACR. Two days after I landed, the unit went to the field (not unusual, since we spent about 250 days per year in the field). I was bumbling through "in country familiarization", or whatever they called it, and spending the rest of my work days at the (empty) battery HQ, trying to put together a good set of maps, learn where the latrines were, etc., while serving as "Rear Ops OIC".

The building in question was a captured WWII German barracks, with high ceilings, tall doors, three stories tall, and one heckuva draft when all the windows were open. It was just like my college dorm in that regard. Since this was August, all the windows were open, and doors would close with great gusto if not carefully controlled.

I'm sitting there around 1500 in the FDO room, trying to stay awake on a lazy afternoon, when the hallway reverberates with a loud BLAM! I thought it was a door slamming at first, then it dawned on me... that was way too loud for a door!

I stepped into the hall, just as my "Rear Ops NCOIC" was about to break free from his frozen position. Said position being just inches from a big divot in the concrete wall, directly adjacent to his right ear. And "about to break free" meaning, "I stepped out just in time to stop him from pummelling the CQ", who was sitting at the CQ desk with a smoking 1911.

In the end, here's what happened: the battery commander (the only one assigned a pistol in the entire battery) allowed the CQ to draw his pistol, rather than an unwieldy M16. Our intrepid CQ didn't have the faintest idea how to operate a 1911. I don't know how he did it, but he fired a round through the CQ desk, which then riocheted off the floor, and ricocheted again off the wall next to the NCOIC's ear.

I got to learn a lot that day, about clearing a 1911, and reporting major incidents.



Kevin