Have you shot your new gun yet? Other than dry firing?
After inserting loaded mag, when you rack the slide to chamber 1st round, and safety is off, it will immediately be ready to fire in single action (hammer cocked) mode. Each subsequent shot will also be in single action mode until mag is empty. Then slide locks back, you insert another mag, boomarang slide to chamber first round, repeat, repeat, repeat. You could literally shoot 1000 rounds at the range, with every single shot in single action (hammer cocked) mode...without ever manually cocking the hammer (by trigger staging), or having to pull through a full double action trigger.
Now...when you insert mag, and chamber 1st round, and safety is ON, it will chamber round and drop hammer (de-cock) putting gun in double action mode. First pull is long DA, next and all subsequent shots will be in single action. You are only having first shot in DA mode when you are carrying weapon (this gun designed for concealed carry...so spur cannot catch on hem of shirt, etc). That long DA pull is the "safety" really...as many of of us carry the gun in DA mode with safety "off" (use as decocker only). If at the range, and in de-cocked mode, you can keep gun pointed down range and stage trigger and cock hammer as you mentioned. No problem doing that, would be hard to "accidentally" pull through full DA. BUT...it's good to practice that DA pull, as that is how you would normally use the gun in defensive situation; 1st shot DA / follow up shots SA.
