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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:19:34 PM EDT
[#1]
No.
I don't ever put my finger inside trigger gaurd unless I'm going to fire. Electrical sockets don't have safties, and I have yet to shock myself. Having a child in the home does change things. I live 21 year old and two 20 year olds, so I dont have to worry about that. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:19:53 PM EDT
[#2]
I still use it even though I never depend on it. Force of habit
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:19:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:20:54 PM EDT
[#4]
Nope. They're a PITA. I opt for the decocker only, if available.
I'm the safety. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:20:55 PM EDT
[#5]
Almost never.
Finger and muzzle discipline. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:21:47 PM EDT
[#6]
yes, I don't rely on it, but in the case of a dropped gun for example (or a tree branch when going through brush) it's a smart thing to use
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:21:58 PM EDT
[#7]
What safety?
 <-----Glock dude! ETA [bhd] "Delta or no delta that's a hot weapon, you know better'n that Sergeant." "Why this here is my safety sir"{bhd] |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:22:15 PM EDT
[#8]
Well I'd feel unsafe with you and your firearms. They can slip, and the trigger be hit if the safety was on your kid could go hunting with you next week. They are there for a reason. Do you wear a seat belt why?
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:23:36 PM EDT
[#9]
There's also the bad guy getting the gun factor.
It may take him a extra few seconds to figure out the safety but it may be enough to go for the BUG |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:27:00 PM EDT
[#10]
I'm professional enough not to use my safety.
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:27:31 PM EDT
[#11]
My two Walther P99s don't have safeties
 I'm a firm believer in trigger/muzzle discipline. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:28:42 PM EDT
[#12]
Yes if the chamber is loaded and im not actually shooting it, the safety is always on. Thats the way I was taught.
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:29:00 PM EDT
[#13]
I use my finger. BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:29:23 PM EDT
[#14]
If you are going through thick brush or trying to manuver in a tight spot or climbing over somthing the gun should be unloaded. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:29:27 PM EDT
[#15]
I do.
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:30:39 PM EDT
[#16]
rarely
like if I'm at the range shooting and in the middle of a mag and taking a pause for some reason. If the weapon has a decock I'll use that ETA if I'm hunting, I'll have the safety on any time I'm moving |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:30:48 PM EDT
[#17]
+ infinity |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:32:21 PM EDT
[#18]
Only in my Colt .45, condition one in the holster, draw, present ,click. It provides me with a nice thumb rest
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:32:30 PM EDT
[#19]
Hell yes.
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:36:01 PM EDT
[#20]
On the range I keep the action open unless im shooting+muzzle and finger discipline.
Hunting/tactical training ect, is a different story though. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:38:51 PM EDT
[#21]
I use it, finger are good muzzle discipline, but I still think you should have the safety on until you're ready to shoot. If it's on, it's one more level of protection, if not, it's one less. It only takes one accident to @#$% up everything.
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:39:23 PM EDT
[#22]
Not if Im by myself on the range ( private range) but if say somebody is with me, and I shoot half the mag, before I hand it off I put the safety on sometimes. My friends that I shoot with are gun people, so sometimes I just tell them "ready to go" we understand what this means.....pull the trigger and bang
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:39:43 PM EDT
[#23]
M4 yes.
M9 no. Decock, back on fire, reholster. ETA: Yes, when dove or deer hunting my safety is on until I'm ready to fire. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:44:41 PM EDT
[#24]
If the weapon has a safety I use it. If we are not in a combat zone and I see you carrying and not using a safety. Your going to hear about it. It just plain stupid not to use a safety if you have one on your weapon. Yea I saw Blackhawk Down, My answer is still the same.
One of my first offical duties when I got to Vietnam was to box up a soldiers personal affects to send back home to his wife. I had to take the granade and the pictures of his local Vietnamese bar girls out first. His best firend was the one who shot him on full auto setting across the bunker from him. He was running a mag of ammo thru the weapon by ejecting each round by pulling the charging handle back. The finger I guess caught the trigger and death followed. One body bag, one soldier in prison for killing his best friend. He served 6 months and then came back to the unit. He was so screwed up in the head that he just keep extending. I am not sure he ever went home. I am not sure he could. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:46:23 PM EDT
[#25]
Does a one-legged duck swim in circles? Something like this was covered in the Hunting forum a coupla weeks ago. I quit hunting with a close friend because he refused to use his safety. Even after I asked him to several times. If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change a thing. When you have something in your hands that's capable of ending a life, is it too much to ask of you to press a button or flip a switch? You bet I use mine, there's not a single logical reason not to. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:46:30 PM EDT
[#26]
Sig/Glock don't have one so no (chamber loaded). (Taught this way.)
AR-15---yes. (Taught this way.) Hunting rifle---yes. (Taught this way.) |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:47:08 PM EDT
[#27]
P7M8 is my Carry gun, that squeesesock thing is the saftey
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:47:59 PM EDT
[#28]
None of my handguns have them, my holster is the safty.
All of my rifles and shotguns have the safty on and finger out of trigger guard unless actual ly shooting. Have personally witnessed unintended discharges and have a friend who was accidently shot w/a shotgun at close range (his wallet saved his life). No safety when hunting = you aint huntin with me. Going through thickets, walking diificult (muddy slippery inclined etc) terrain is axiomatic to hunting and increases the potential for accidents. Sorry but all the reasons for not hunting with a safty on just don't cut it for me. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:51:20 PM EDT
[#29]
 "Well, this is my safety, Sir" But seriously, I keep my safety on. Better safe than sorry. |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:53:23 PM EDT
[#30]
Fucking shit...if i wasn't drunk i would have beat you
 "Well this is my safety sir!" |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 6:55:57 PM EDT
[#31]
HOOT!
What's wierd is, our friend Hoot that sounds soooooooo redneck. Is a brit 
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:13:54 AM EDT
[#32]
Challange:
Give one good reason not to keep your safty on while hunting..... |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:16:42 AM EDT
[#33]
Yes. That is what it is there for. However,the best safety ever invented is the person holding the gun.
I also wanted to add that it doesn't take but a split second to take off the safety when I'm hunting. It is a good precaution and would sure ruin your day if you needed it and didn't have it on. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:24:16 AM EDT
[#34]
Where do you hunt? Open desert? Your logic is strange. You will keep the weapon unloaded for safety reasons but you won't use the built-in safety. I wouldn't hunt with you either. Our rules here are load and lock after exiting our vehicle and before entering the brush/swamp/woods. Unload back at the vehicle before getting in. The guy I hunt with was in the US Army as an armorer and later SF for 10 years, is a LEO/SWAT instructor and has been hunting since he was 8 yo. He stopped hunting with a fellow LEO because the guy was like you. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:25:53 AM EDT
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The sheer mention of gLock in this thread is worthy of Nomination for the Commemorative gHey Kaboom Award and ass flogging
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:29:36 AM EDT
[#36]
I call them "maybes". There isn't any safety device on any firearm that is 100% reliable. Use common sense.
AB |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:33:42 AM EDT
[#37]
infinity + 1 The seatbelt in your car is there only to protect you during accidents, consider the safety on your weapon if you trip and fall pointing the weapon at someone it is less likely to go off and kill anyone stupid enough to hunt with you. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:35:42 AM EDT
[#38]
Frankly, I'm stunned at the ammount of people that don't
use the mechanical safety. Mechanical safe is one of the basic fundamentals of being safe with firearms. I wouldn't shoot with anyone that did not use thier safety. Proper utilization of a safety is a learned, trained response. It will not prevent you from getting the weapon into action, and, it may just keep you from shooting yourself or someone else. ETA: Obviously if there isn't a safety/decocker on the weapon you can't use one. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:38:56 AM EDT
[#39]
1911 - Yes
PPK/S - Yes Rifle in the stand hunting - Yes O/U on the skeet range - No Shotgun in the field hunting - Yes |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:41:48 AM EDT
[#40]
Glock - nuff said.
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:44:44 AM EDT
[#41]
If it doesn't have a grip safety (ie 1911, XD) or a firing pin safety (ie Glock, XD, etc) or a trigger safety (ie Glock, XD, etc) what happens if you drop it? My Rem 700 trigger will disengage in a hard wind.
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:45:35 AM EDT
[#42]
Damn beat me to it
Yea I use the safety, but seriously just like on a Glock..if you pull the trigger it goes bang, If you dont pull the trigger it doesnt go bang. Got it??? Thats how I briefed my boys on shooting the Glock, for the AR they use the safety. And never!!!never put your finger on the trigger until its time to shoot  FREE
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:50:01 AM EDT
[#43]
For weapons with a safety, USE THE SAFETY.
Logic, people, logic. Redundant safety is a GOOD thing. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:53:45 AM EDT
[#44]
I use the safety on my Browning Hi Power when I have it cocked and locked.
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:55:53 AM EDT
[#45]
This really is common sense. When hunting, I'm not standing still out in the open - it's not my finger I'm worried about.
Curious: Are the people that don't use them stubborn? Or have they had problems working with fine motor skills during moments of stress? Have they ever taken a Hunter's Safety class? Things like this can be worked on and improved, but I wouldn't hunt with someone that refused to use the provided finger/thumb activated safety on their firearm either. One more thing: Eric "Hoot" Bana is notoriously anti-gun. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:55:55 AM EDT
[#46]
The safety is there for a reason. If you are too lazy to use it hunting or not skilled enough to use it hunting, I do not want to be hunting with you. I have had a few chances on birds with the shotty where I did not throw the safety enough, no kaboom. Just makes me practice to get better.
I always break it open when climbing over a fence or put my whole hand over the trigger guard when in thick brush. |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:56:42 AM EDT
[#47]
Yes. IBTP.
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Posted: 12/22/2005 7:00:54 AM EDT
[#48]
Some of you guys are scaring me a little...
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Posted: 12/22/2005 7:01:35 AM EDT
[#49]
While hunting you are careless and dangerous not to. To many chances of brush and limbs discharging the weapon. I agree 100% with muzzle and trigger control, but in a hunting situation there is just to many things that could happen. I wouldn't hunt with you either.
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Posted: 12/22/2005 7:03:23 AM EDT
[#50]
For my carry weapon no, because I carry a Glock or a SIG. On all my long arms yes. I am very well disciplined when it comes to keeping my finger off the trigger, but I just like knowing that the safety is engaged if there is one.
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