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To: Mr Rogers
It doesn’t take long to rack the slide. Think of it as a super-safety.

It doesn't take long, but what if you soft-pull it and the round fails to chamber? What if you don't have yuor other hand available?
95 posted on 11/30/2016 1:27:09 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

Don’t soft pull it. Part of practice.

What if I don’t have one hand available? What if I don’t have either hand available? What if the dude is 300 lbs and sitting on me?

One can what-if forever. I’m not telling ANYONE how to do it. I just think that different people have different threat environments, different levels of comfort, etc. I live in a very low threat environment. For my daily living, I could be pretty safe never carrying at all.

If someone wants to carry a soft-trigger striker fired gun without a safety and a round in the chamber, they can. I don’t. In fact, I plan to sell the only gun I own like that. My hammer-fired Baretta Pico has a nice, heavy trigger pull - as do my J-frames.

But I carry mainly for the weirdo shooter who just wants to kill random people. That scenario typically means you have a few seconds, and the shots may be at longer range than lots of CCW folks practice at. I’m glad to say my Pico is surprisingly accurate at 20 yards, as are my J-frames...but I also carry my 686+ a lot.

If I lived in a city, I might appraise the threats differently.


100 posted on 11/30/2016 2:37:40 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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