Master Doug Huffman
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McX wrote:
On reassembly the slide is locked back, cocking the external spurless hammer. Insert the magazine and release the slide to battery, that chambers a round - the hammer is still cocked. Drop the magazine so that if the hammer bar fails in the next step there won't be yet another round chambered. Decock, dropping the hammer to the bar, with the gun aimed safely, the lever spring returns to Fire. Replace the round for a full magazine and reinsert the magazine. The gun is ready to go.
Ten years is 3,650 times it didn't go off on decock.
The H&K USP torture tests are quite notorious and easily found on the web.
McX wrote:
My CCW is an H&K USPc .40. For about ten years I carried it concealed on daily 50 Km bicycle rides on the coast of SC, salty, sultry, humid. Every day the gun would have sweat running out of it. Everyday it would be field stripped, wiped and reassembled. I carried it Condition Two, hammer down with a chambered round and safety off.which manufacturers, and models offer the 'safe decocking' thing, and is it safe to carry with one in the chamer, hammer down. if dropped any chances it will go off?
On reassembly the slide is locked back, cocking the external spurless hammer. Insert the magazine and release the slide to battery, that chambers a round - the hammer is still cocked. Drop the magazine so that if the hammer bar fails in the next step there won't be yet another round chambered. Decock, dropping the hammer to the bar, with the gun aimed safely, the lever spring returns to Fire. Replace the round for a full magazine and reinsert the magazine. The gun is ready to go.
Ten years is 3,650 times it didn't go off on decock.
The H&K USP torture tests are quite notorious and easily found on the web.