How many actually "use" the +1 when carrying?

[kungfuhippie]

My Star B has 8 rd mags...so that extra round is appreciated. I've got an aftermarket 9rd mag that has a weak spring and won't hold the slide back...so I don't use it for open carry where legal to do so in PRK.

 

[SalTx]

When I carried BUG'S, I filled them up..and never unloaded them, all my guns were loaded most of the time, don't know why one would want to routinely empty it.

 

[Ifishsum]

The last one puts quite a bit of extra pressure on the magazine after a top-off so I usually don't. I figure if I can't get 'er done in 10, another one probably won't mean squat.

 

[Ala Dan]

Most definitely, add the +1~!

 

[DHart]

ALWAYS one in the chamber and a full mag beneath it, no matter what the gun.

 

[glassman]

Wtshtf

When in that situation, the adrenaline is gonna be dumping and I don't want to be worried about fumble fingers and taking the time to rack the slide. My pocket carry has a thumb saftey. My drill includes draw, bringing the gun to bear, thumb safety and trigger pull. Do it enough times and it becomes fast and natural. +1 for the chambered round.

 

[glocktoberfest]

Nobody ever wished that he had less ammo.

Amen

 

[geekWithA.45]

I'd really, really hate for my last thought to be,
"damnit, there was space for one more round...."

 

[ipscshooter]

Absolutley +1.

 

[bigmike45]

Always +1 round
Always +1 Mag
Always +1 Speedloader

 

[Headless]

Nobody ever wished that he had less ammo.

Unless they were on fire or drowning

 

[Seminole]

I fill it up. Can't imagine ever wishing I had one fewer round.

 

[CajunBass]

Why would you not?

 

[shadowalker]

I always carry +1, some people don't because they believe it extends magazine spring life by lowering the tension.

 

[jt1]

..... I'm curious--how many people actually put one in the chamber on top of a full mag.....

If you don't what's the point? An auto pistol with an empty chamber is an unloaded gun. For a CCW if you have to draw and cycle to load a round in the chamber in order to have a servicable weapon you are too late.

 

[1BLINDREF]

Why would you not?

My thought exactly.

 

[enc0re]

"In hand to hand combat, the winner is the man with one more bullet in the magazine"
- Erwin Rommel

 

[Geronimo45]

I don't. Read somewhere where it said that it caused strain on the extractor - but I dunno.

 

[peacemaker45]

Ummm, yeah. Seems kinda silly to say, "I think I'm gonna pick an autoloader, that way I'm trading more complex operations for better capacity, better trigger, etc," and then give up both advantages by using a DAO trigger, and not using the full capacity. The trigger thing is off point, just a pet peeve.

Only exception is a Colt style SAA, wherin the capacity is 6 -1, for safety reasons.

~~~Mat

 

[Fezwig]

Absolutely!! If I'm gonna carry a gun, I want it loaded to the fullest.

When you stop to gas up the car, would you stop at 3/4 of a tank? Ok, with gas prices that may not be the best example, but you get my point.

Fezwig

 

[TC-TX]

All-waze

 

[Lonestar.45]

+1, absolutely, always when carrying. Many times at the range I don't load up and go +1 before shooting, but always when I carry. If you carry one in the pipe anyway, there is no reason not to top off your mag too and get full capacity. Especially when you rarely carry spare mags like I do. I can't imagine NOT carrying +1.

 

[Legionnaire]

+1

 

[waterhouse]

I don't. Read somewhere where it said that it caused strain on the extractor - but I dunno.

Certainly you can do as you please, but how could inserting a loaded magazine, dropping/racking the slide, taking the magazine out, topping it off, and reinserting the magazine cause strain on the extractor?

I think what you may have read was that placing a round directly into the barrel (through the ejection port) and then closing the slide might be bad for the extractor.

 

[Geronimo45]

I think what you may have read was that placing a round directly into the barrel (through the ejection port) and then closing the slide might be bad for the extractor.

Or I may be thinking of the AR-15... it was a thread on it, IIRC, that said that having a full magazine+1 in the chamber could bend up something or other. Think it was the extractor, but I'm not sure.
Now that I think of it, it's impossible (I think) to strain the extractor on a 1911 that way. It's way up north of the magwell.
Maybe I should do a bit of reconsiderin'.