Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Would you carry a cocked single action revolver?

WTF has money for holsters? 'Crappy', or not........ Don't go having a 'nervous breakdown' now.

Single action revolver--no. I have carried various iterations of the 1911 for over 40 years--always cocked and locked, but almost always in holsters with a snap strap between the hammer and the slide. I have occasionally carried them stuck in my jeans at 4 o'clock or 6 o'clock. These days, I no longer carry single action autos for self-defense.

I normally do not strike up a conversation with folks who carry openly unless I know them.

A guy who was the mayor in a small town where I was living some years ago had the hammer of a holstered Ruger BH .357 mag get drawn back and released getting into or out of a car. The gun went off and shot him in the leg.

IIRC there is an old saying about safely carrying SA revolvers , "5 beans in the wheel", which I understand to mean 5 loaded chambers with the hammer down on an empty chamber. It seems like a potentially dangerous situation to me, but I'm a DA guy.

A high school bud was getting out of his truck with a loaded revolver stuffed under the seat. An older model with the firing pin on the hammer. Knocked the gun out on the ground getting out of the truck. Gun landed perfectly wrong and discharged. He's been in a wheelchair ever since. That was ~ 40 yrs ago.

The only way the hammer got released and the gun fired was that the trigger got pulled. Unless it happened to be a three screw that hadn't been converted to the transfer bar.

That's what I was thinking seeing that guy with his single action revolver cocked. Even so it would be like carrying a 1911 in condition 1 with the grip safety tied down and the side safety disengaged. I imagine that single action revolver would have a very light trigger pull as well. There's no way I can see it is a safe practice for anyone.

R H Clark: NO!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Someday that fella is going to earn the nickname Stumpy, Gimpy, Peg Leg.... What an idiot.

This happened at a time when all Ruger BH's were three-screws.

WOW, good luck with being you.

Yep, and his current nickname:

Thanks,I like me just fine.

he was just saying leave me alone I'm ready, cocked and loaded

nope

If it had a thumb strap that blocked the hammer from falling until I pulled it.

Saw a guy one time mexican carrying down the front of his pants. I wanted to say if someone grabs that thing your gonna get your dick shot off

I don't think I have ever seen a Ruger with the firing pin on the hammer.

I was deer hunting on an uncles farm and ran into a guy that worked for him that he's let hunt there also. This goober was carrying a Winchester 94 with the hammer down, not at half-cock as he should have been. I left the farm immediately.

As to being somewhat concerned about people who open carry, about the only place I've ever noticed it was at Walmart. Every single one of them appeared to me to be card carrying goobers, who just wanted to be noticed. People like this remind me of the Black man I knew that pulled into the parking lot of the little country store one day, with his old truck sporting a pair of CB antennas. This was back in the day when CB radios were popular. I said to him that I saw he now had him a CB radio, and he replied....."no suh, I just wants to make people think I do".

Got a Nephew, that like His Dad is kinda spacey. Friend of mine and I were working on a building that I was putting up when He walked by, going deer hunting with a caplock muzzleloader, with the hammer cocked and a cap in place. I made mention that His rifle was cocked, and He replied that you had to cock it to get the cap on. He had no clue that you could let it back down, until I showed Him. He has done a lot of strange stuff over the years, but that one takes the cake. miles