Decocker Model - DA/SA Interpretation

[ElDub1950]

If you intend to use a DA/SA action gun for self/home defense then you should also take the time to TRAIN and master the DA trigger pull. If you don't or can't , get another gun without DA!!!

^ That pretty much says it all.

[wpod]

The majority of my firearms experience (45 years) is with long guns. I have owned and carried (in AZ) revolvers so I am comfortable with a loaded chamber. I would occasionally shoot my wifes 92fs.
Recently I bought my first pistol, PX4 Storm (g). I practice DA, SA, SA, decock... repeat. At home I dry-fire DA with a dime on the slide or front sight.
When the pistol is in the safe it's unloaded. In the Speed Vault or holster it's 10+1 and at half-cock (more like 1/8th cock). Still DA pull and hammer is not resting on the firing pin.

[Sunday]

Strange as it seems I like having the pistol decocked while holstered.

[M. D. Van Norman]

Not strange at all, though theoretically one could cock a double-action pistol after holstering it. That said, any exigent need to draw and fire would probably occur at very short range, negating the accuracy problems of the double-action pull.

[unusedusername]

Not strange at all, though theoretically one could cock a double-action pistol after holstering it. That said, any exigent need to draw and fire would probably occur at very short range, negating the accuracy problems of the double-action pull.

Depending on the gun that could be quite dangerous.

Sigs with SRT triggers have the drop safety disengaged when in SA mode. If it fell out of your holster while in SA mode, it very well might discharge.

Keep it DA when holstered, and resist the urge thumb cock the hammer.