What is the history of cocked & locked carry?

[keith44spl]

Well I don't know the history on this cocked & locked thing, but...

I've known a lot of old gunmen that carried 1911s. I've saw tried down or pinned grip safeties, trigger guards cut-away,

saw 'em carried hammer down on a live round, cocked, locked and or unlocked.

After years of being schooled in the fine art of pistolcraft by several old hands, I got

myself some pretty good ideas of how I want to carry mine.

Oh, the safety between my ears is always engaged.


Su Amigo,
Dave

 

[MKT]

There was a time the Border Patrol had authorization for personally owner weapons. Many of those who carried a 1911 carried in condition one in a Jordan style holster. My first tour teaching at the Academy had me teamed up with (what to me at the time was a dinosaur) old timer who still had his leather and 1911 but no longer had authorization to carry that gun/rig. Being at the Academy afforded us a lot of range time and I took the opportunity to learn. I spent several days during my lunch hour drawing that 1911, thumbing the safety off upon breaking leather and dry firing. Once I felt comfortable with it I practiced a bit more shooting singles and double taps. Then I graduated in my mind and joined the class I was teaching on the line and fired a respectable qual score with a 1911, carried cocked & locked. That lessons learned in the shadow of a dinosaur are still with me today as I utilize those skills every pistol match I shoot (1/2 of what I shoot is pistol the rest is revolver).