My CZ75B stainless should be here tomorrow; I can't wait.
Anyway, how do you safely decock it if I want to lower the hammer to the "half-cock" position for DA use instead of cocked and locked.
The way I was shown by a gun shop guy was to hold the pistol pointed in a safe direction, place your left thumb over the firing pin while holding the slide and hold the hammer with your right thumb. Then, carefully depress the trigger and slowly lower the hammer with your right thumb until it touches the left thumb. That way, if it slips out of the right thumb, it will land on your left thumb rather than on the firing pin and not cause a ND.
This seems like a safe way to do it to me but I want to ask the experts before I try it. Any other methods of decocking? Of course I will practice this many times before trying it with a live round in the chamber.
Thanks.
Anyway, how do you safely decock it if I want to lower the hammer to the "half-cock" position for DA use instead of cocked and locked.
The way I was shown by a gun shop guy was to hold the pistol pointed in a safe direction, place your left thumb over the firing pin while holding the slide and hold the hammer with your right thumb. Then, carefully depress the trigger and slowly lower the hammer with your right thumb until it touches the left thumb. That way, if it slips out of the right thumb, it will land on your left thumb rather than on the firing pin and not cause a ND.
This seems like a safe way to do it to me but I want to ask the experts before I try it. Any other methods of decocking? Of course I will practice this many times before trying it with a live round in the chamber.
Thanks.