I might be way off, but I don't understand the mass rejection of manual safety on striker pistols. I just got a Sig 365 X Macro, and after doing the M-Carbo trigger job, it shoots close to my CZ SP01 Cajun Gun Works single action only. A striker pistol is basically a single-action-only platform. It does not have a double-action function where you can pull the trigger without racking the slide. Why would you want to holster such a platform chambered without the safety engaged? Managing a safety is a training challenge, not a technical one. In the case of the P365 macro, the safety does not add any diminishing characteristics. It is simply another option and in my opinion a superior option. If you don't want to use it, that is an option but why remove it?
I feel similarly about decockers. What is so difficult about putting your thumb on the hammer and safely dropping the hammer. I just don't get decockers. My two main platforms are now CZ SP01 Safety and Sig P365 X Macro Safety with a M-Carbo trigger upgrade. They shoot more alike than not.
Please help me understand what I am not understanding about striker safeties and decockers.
I have a Kahr CM9 striker fired 9mm. The safety feature is a long, very smooth trigger pull. You can carry with a round in the chamber and not fear an ary the Kahr accidental discharge from a light tap on the trigger. like a cocked hammer. I got used to my 1911 requiring a tap on the safety when you carry as John Browning intended,"cocked and locked". I carry the Kahr because of its size, accuracy, and reliability with all types of ammo. How I carry depends on the environment I will be entering.I love them both. nuff said.....It's simple... Most people don't like manual thumb safeties because in a tense situation, that's just one more thing to be done when seconds matter between unholstering and firing the weapon and when you're scared and got adrenaline pumping, no amount of practice will 100% guarantee you'll remember to swipe the safety off. We aren't perfect beings.
Some people are all about the striker-fired pistols, some are all about 1911-style pistols and some are all about the hammer-fired SA/DA pistols, which is what I am. I don't prefer a manual thumb safety which is why I'm all about the HF SA/DA. No need for a safety and also have a lesser chance of the gun going bang when it's not supposed to. Now, just to avoid starting a heated debate on that subject, this is just what I prefer and that is what my manual of arms is.
But why is it you dont understand a decocker? Sure, on certain handguns such as 1911's and revolvers, thats your only way to decock one of those and it is unsafe, even if you know what you're doing. Then there is the decocker. Makes it so much safer and doesnt involve pulling the trigger while you control the lowering of the hammer with your thumb.
I have a Kahr CM9 striker fired 9mm. The safety feature is a long, very smooth trigger pull. You can carry with a round in the chamber and not fear an ary the Kahr accidental discharge from a light tap on the trigger. like a cocked hammer. I got used to my 1911 requiring a tap on the safety when you carry as John Browning intended,"cocked and locked". I carry the Kahr because of its size, accuracy, and reliability with all types of ammo. How I carry depends on the environment I will be entering.I love them both. nuff said.....
My Kahr has a 6.5 pound trigger....works for meSo in weight, how many pound-trigger pull is that CM9? And I’m assuming you’re saying it doesn’t have a manual thumb safety on the side?
My Beretta PX4 storm 9 mm compact that I carry in the winter time when I’m not at work and when it’s too cold to wear shorts or my Springfield XDE 45 that I carry all rest of the year around and when I’m at work, both have a fairly long 12 to 13 pound trigger pull. That is my safety coupled with the hammer that I can press on whenever I go to put the PX4 in it’s holster or the Springfield in it’s pocket holster that goes in my pocket.
But yeah, those of y’all that have really good experience with a 1911 carrying it cocked and locked like that, probably have a lot less of a risk of forgetting to swipe your safety off but for someone like me, it don’t want a thumb safety.
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My Kahr has a 6.5 pound trigger....works for me
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