If you do, I'll pay top dollar for a box. LOL Ohio Blue Tips were DA BOMB!
I carried revolvers for years, always left it on an empty cylinder. Now I’m carrying a shield. I’m gonna assume I’m going to get made fun of here, but I’ve carried without a round chambered. Always kind of hoped/assumed if something was coming I’d see it coming. Then the other day I was working on my daughters car at her apartment complex, and as I’m going to her door this mid sized black dog starts charging. Probly 45-50 lb of mutt. I panic for a minute, saw it was on a lead, ran a few steps, then realized he’d pulled the stake from the ground and was loose. My back hit the wall of the building, it lunges at me, I bashed it in the head with my tool bag, it tries again I hit it twice more and run ten more steps, finally starting to think, realize he thinks he’s just doing his job, but there’s no where else to run and decide if he comes at me again I’m going to shoot it, but there I am, with a pistol that I’d have to jack a round in the chamber while it’s biting me, if it comes to that. Thankfully it backed off, but I’ve been thinking about it ever since.
Edit.. I carry on my hip in a kydex that covers the bang bang stick. Reading the comments I think it’s just a mental thing I need to get over.
One in the pipe Always and if your shield has a safety keep it off. Many stories of guys trying to pull a trigger that is on safety. When your in flight or fight you need things to be as simple as possible because your monkey brain takes over
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Training and shoot in a few matches of some sort. Parabellum has USPSA and Carry gun matches, Tim's has Action pistol.. Training will enlighten you to what you don't know and the matches will put you in a more comfortable mindset where safety and your abilities are concerned.It boils down to knowing your gun, its capabilities as well as your own, when you have it all together it becomes a extension of yourself. Practice drawing unload at first, become comfortable with it, practice safety, you will be fine.!!!!!
Years ago I bought a case. Store them in an ammo can...still using them.Anybody have actual strike anywhere matches?
I hate when I have to agree with BigRedIf it isn't loaded, it doesn't work.
An old thread, now, but one I wrote after working yet another case of someone losing to bad guys because they carried on an empty chamber:
I am *begging* you, stop carrying on an empty chamber.
CARRYING ON AN EMPTY CHAMBER WILL GET YOU KILLED. Please, please, please stop doing this. Is it honestly better to carry no gun than carry a gun that's not ready to fight when you pull it. It will get you killed. IT WILL GET YOU KILLED. The bad guys will prevail because of the head start...www.indianagunowners.com
That incident was an entangled gunfight where the good guy was killed with his gun out but empty chamber. If you can't bring yourself to carry chambered, go back to the revolver. Revolvers work and the reduced capacity is nowhere remotely near as likely to be a deciding factor as not having a functional weapon at the draw.
This is the best advice given, the more repetition is the best.Training and shoot in a few matches of some sort. Parabellum has USPSA and Carry gun matches, Tim's has Action pistol.. Training will enlighten you to what you don't know and the matches will put you in a more comfortable mindset where safety and your abilities are concerned.
Sportsman's Warehouse shows them as a stock item. Currently out of stock at Greenwood.Anybody have actual strike anywhere matches?
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you are out of the loop. Years ago they changed the formula of the tips to make them safer. The new ones are not really strike anywhere.Sportsman's Warehouse shows them as a stock item. Currently out of stock at Greenwood.
https://www.sportsmans.com/camping-gear-supplies/safety-survival/fire-starters/diamond-3-pack-strike-anywhere-matches/p/101034?msclkid=97084d1ed7a01b7c1d8a2cdb18c2836f&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bing - DSA - Category Pages&utm_term=camping gear supplies safety survival fire starters&utm_content=Camping#smw_turnto_comments_title
Anybody have actual strike anywhere matches?
Oh, and as MC said, Not piling on, but there was a tragic death on the south side of Indy a couple years ago. A gent tried to come to the aid of an armored car robbery. I dont recall if it was an empty chamber or forgotten safety, but he was ready to go and when he pulled the trigger, nothing happened. Robber saw him and took him out before he could make the weapon ready.
I think we all commend you for stepping up and asking questions, open to learning. Good on you.
If your pistol has a manual safety, you should train to swipe the safety off as part of your drawstroke.