Anyone who owns a 1911 pistol knows that they are designed to be carried “cocked and locked” that is the reason they have the types of safeties they have. Have you ever been to a marksmanship school or target training course? The INSTRUCTORS teach you to carry your 1911 COCKED AND LOCKED.
Read anybody’s articles in ANY gun magazine! YOU CARRY A 1911 COCKED AND LOCKED. PERIOD.
And for the rest of you who seem to have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to DA/SA and DAO/DAK.. try picking up a couple issues of HANDGUNS MAGAZINE OR AMERICAN HANDGUNNER and learn about your own guns since it seems you have no idea. Then maybe you can be qualified to post your input.
by the way.. DAO handguns do not have a decocker PERIOD
The gun is NEVER COCKED.. THE action of pulling the trigger on a DAO pistol COCKS, then FIRES the gun.. that is why it is called Double Action Only..
All the 1911 carriers I have seen or talked to carry in condition one.
The first person I had every seen with a locked and cocked 1911 was a Texas Ranger. I thought that was kind of cool.