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Originally Posted by fred cook
With an automatic, do you carry with one up the spout? With a modern SA/DA that makes sense. But with an older SA only, condition 1 is sorta shaky.
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Yes. Always one in the pipe. Though once in a great while, I have to carry my Glock in my riding jacket pocket and, when I do that, no round in the pipe. The trigger pull on that is just too light and, though I keep the trigger covered, I'm a little nervous about it. With the HK, it has a heavy pull on DA and a manual safety, so no concerns there at all.
FWIW, I know of two recent self-defense shootings where the good guy lived because he had a round in the pipe and thus didn't have to waste time racking the slide back, in one case, he didn't have a free hand to do so.