” Cycling any type of gun tends to give away your position. I personally do not think that is a good idea. “
I, personally, do not think storing a gun, or any weapon, “in battery” is a particularly good idea....
Why not? The Army stores their weapons with the actions closed (in battery), it seems to work for them. Storing weapons with the actions open keeps operating springs compressed on semi-autos for no good reason. Keeping a self defense weapon ready to go, as in round in the chamber and safety on is the only way I would store my go-to weapon.
The idea is that when you grab it, you immediately cycle it and put it on safe, rather than cycling it when you see the bad guy.
Nothing wrong with storing a pistol in a proper holster ready to go.