cocked and locked (I hope)...the safety pin is a nice touch...
Affirmative on the "Locked"!
I got one of those "airsoft" plastic .45 lookalikes for about $20, and practice my draw / safety swoop with it, popping paper cups and such with little plastic BBs accross my shop.
It's amazing how much that helps when I take the REAL .45 out to the range and blast clays on the berm with it from 7 - 10 yards out, using the instinctive point / extended hipshot method.
But I still use the basic FUNDAMENTALS that I learned when shooting the NRA 2400 competition course in the 8th Army AMTU; just a little bit quicker.
These days I only start using the sights beyond 20 yards or so.
And I can raise the dickens with a gallon paint can out at 100 yds. sitting down, 2-handed, leaning against a post, and holding just a hair of front blade over the top of the rear sight.
I don't doubt any of you here who report combat kills with old slabsides beyond 100 Meters. A good one will do it.
As to the safety pin; thanks; up heah in Maine we do the best we can with what we've got.
And something about that Sys27 puts a little more load on the right suspension strap than some of the aligator clips were designed to hold, and they slip.