Do you CCW with a round chambered?

When you CCW, is there a round in the chamber?

  • Yes

    Votes: 484 86.0%

  • No

    Votes: 23 4.1%

  • I carry a revolver

    Votes: 56 9.9%
  • Total voters
    563
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The only reason to carry empty chamber is if you carry a weapon that is not safe to carry with a round in the chamber such as the old style browning .25. Otherwise, absolutely, and since I don't own a weapon that it is unsafe to carry chambered I always carry with one up the pipe.
 
+1 for Sawdust at home too

It is not just when out and about. I have a round chambered at home too.

Doc2005
 
I always have a round chambered, the rule I have compromised, however, when I carry my 1911 in a fanny pack in front, I don't keep the hammer cocked. I used to, but once I pulled it out, and the safety was off. I don't know if I forgot, or if it got worked off when I was doing my daily thing, but ever since then, I decided that if it's in a place I can't touch it, I leave it on half-cock.
 
These days I normally carry a revolver (T-shirt weather), but when I carry an auto there is a round chambered.

This wasn't allways the case. Then I first got my CCW I carried with an empty chamber. It was kind of a security blanket b/c I was still a little nervous about carrying. As I became more confident both in my abilities and in my gun-handling discipline I sat down and thought about "Why I carry a gun?" After coming up with some VERY definite and personal answers, I asked myself "Why am I handicaping my ability to defend myself?"

From that point on I have allways kept my guns ready to go.
 
now why in the world would you want to be carrying an unloaded gun? Club someone with it? Gesture menacingly with it and yell loudly enough to scare them away? :p
 
I

work with a guy that used to make bank deposits and carried a revolver for the occasion. He used to have two chambers empty in fear of pulling the trigger twice accidently. :rolleyes: I suppose the third time might be the charm... :uhoh:
 
Er, why no option for "sometimes?"

Sometimes I carry with a round in the chamber, and sometimes not. Depends on which gun and what the situation is.
 
carnaby: What do you mean sometimes?

When would there ever be a "time" to carry a sidearm without having a round chambered?

I can understand someone saying "No I don't"(even though I don't agree) or "Yes, Always chambered" but what reason would there ever be to vary between the two?

Edit: To contribute (1911, Condition 1 or H&K 9+1 (9 round mag) So yes, I always have a round chambered out and at home.
 
As for chambering on the draw, its a useless and dangerous way to carry. Of course, the people who like this type of draw will never have an object in the other hand, won't be pushing or pulling their loved one to safety, their other hand will never get injured, etc. You get the point.
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Add to this the fact that fine motor skills go south when the body starts dumping adrenaline. The likelihood that you'll be able to manage something like racking the slide properly goes way down as well. Bear in mind, many autos have to have the slide pulled all the way back and allowed to go forward at full pitch. Screwing up at either point could cause the first round to feed improperly.

I'll send flowers :(

Trust me, your hands will be shaking, sweaty and fumbling.
 
when I had my Kimber Ultra Carry and I wanted it to be very discrete, I'd carry it in front at about 1:00 with a flimsy uncle mikes nylon holster with the barrel pointing at my jimmy. Now, something about a cocked and locked 1911 aiming at mr. johnson was just a little too disconcerting. It was the best option for concealment though that I had at the time, and I'd rather have the gun with an empty chamber than without the gun at all, no?

When I carry a DA/SA auto, I don't mind the round in the chamber with the hammer down. Ditto with the 1911 on the hip in condition 1.
 
I would only carry with a round in the chamber (if I didn't live in California and could carry) and if I didn't feel my handgun choice was safe to carry with a round in the chamber it would NOT be my CCW handgun.

I read where people don't feel safe with their glock (writer Johns Sanborn of the "prey" series the main character carries his glock without a round in chamber because he has to unload it so many times in a day - when going to court, police station, home) or their 1911 "cocked and locked" in that case I think they aren't really comfortable enough with that handgun for it to be used for CCW.
 
True. I advocate a round in the chamber, I just had that one situation where it didn't work out. I had the choice between a .380 bersa with a round in the pipe, and a .45 kimber without. I chose the kimber. The advantage in firepower overrode the advantage in speed, at least in my mind at the time. I sold the kimber, so now it's either the bersa for discrete carry, or a full size 1911 on the hip when I don't care, condition 1, of course.
 
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