Semi Automatic
Double Action
Cartridge in the tube.
It will not go off unless you pull the trigger. It will go off if you have the safety off.
After 14 shots and the bear is not down you have three options.
Option 1. “Mr. Bear can we be friends” He is already pissed off.
Option 2. Can I run faster than you Mr Bear? You cant.
Option 3. He will probably eat you but if lucky only a few parts and you might survive.
Safeties are great on the firing range. They suck in real life. That is the reason that cops carry Glocks and people that carry 1911s carry with the safety off. It has a built in safety in the handle. It will not go bang unless you are griping the handle firmly in a shooting situation.
All bears disagree with my post.
“After 14 shots and the bear is not down you have three options...”
If you are being attacked by a bear, you are not likely to have the chance to get off 14 shots. Bears can move insanely fast. In most cases you will be lucky to get off two or three rounds. If you don’t drop or drive off the bear with those first few shots you better hope your affairs are in order.
Nobody I have ever met carries a 1911 with the safety off. I would not recommend it. Practice at competition and drill with it on so it is a reflex.
I was wondering if it was just me. I don't think I would carry a gun with the safety on in bear country, but then again I never go to bear country, so it's a moot point.
Anyone reading post 12, please don’t take the part about carrying a 1911 with the safety off seriously.
When God and John Moses Browning invented the 1911 as a military sidearm, the idea was that soldiers would actually train with it properly and the thumb safety would be used as intended.
Misinformation like this could get someone killed, or at least get someone’s leg blown off.
Also a true 1911 holds 8 rounds, not 14.