LarryFlew wrote:Nougat wrote:probally heading to the flames here but on a SA/DA 1911 with a hammer
1911s are not DA/SA, they are SA only with safety. IF you want to lower the hammer you have to do so by hand (pull trigger while holding the hammer and lower it) and then you would have to pull the hammer back if you wanted to fire. They are made to be carried cocked and locked.
With DA/SA you can either have a decocker or a safety and rarely both. You would rack to put one in the chamber. If decocker you then decock to half cocked so first pull of trigger is longer but you need not worry about a safety. If not a decocker you can either use it cocked with safety or decock it by hand and use it as DA/SA where first shot is DA. Many DA/SA guns will not allow the safety to be put on safe when in that half cocked or uncocked position so you can't mess it up in emergency situation.
Didn't ParaOrd make a 1911-style DA/SA? Thought I'd seen it advertised once.
