I have been thinking about the definitions surrounding the "Readiness Conditions". It is mostly an effort to get the list straight in my mind as I talk to my kids about it.
Here is what I believe to be the classic list:
I am leaning to new definations:
--The 4 Rules still apply at every level.
Here is what I believe to be the classic list:
- Condition 0: Round in the chamber, hammer cocked, safety off.
- Condition 1: Round in the chamber, hammer cocked, safety on.
- Condition 2: Round in the chamber, hammer down.
- Condition 3: Chamber empty, full magazine, hammer down.
- Condition 4: Chamber empty, magazine removed, slide back and locked.
I am leaning to new definations:
- Readiness 1: Will fire if trigger is pulled.
- Readiness 2: Will fire if manual safety is switched.
- Readiness 3: Will fire after a round is chambered.
- Readiness 4: Will fire after a round is chambered and safety is switched.
- Readiness 5: Will not fire, no ammunition, action closed.
- Readiness 6: Will not fire, no ammunition, action open.
--The 4 Rules still apply at every level.
5 comments:
That's not how I learned it.
Slightly different:
Condition Four: Chamber empty, no magazine, hammer down. (peacetime military guard post or off duty Israeli carry)
Condition Three: Chamber empty, full magazine in place, hammer down. (Israeli pistol carry)
Condition Two: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer down.
Condition One: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer cocked, safety on. (Cooper carry)
Condition Zero: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer cocked, safety off.
Condition Four should read "off duty Israeli rifle carry"
I like the idea of some new definitions that fit all firearms.
His match what I read on MArooned recently.
http://stuckinmassachusetts.blogspot.com/2010/12/see-what-condition-my-condition-was-in.html
Readiness 1 does not apply to Hammer- style Coach Guns or the older Single- shot Barn Guns. One of their attributes was to load them up, carefully drop the external hammers, place them on a mantle, and still be able to shoot a bad guy ten years later, just by pulling back the Hammers. Also applies to old-school Single action revolvers. Unless one considers the hammers themselves as a Safety? Also, what readiness would you put a modern, loaded Smith J-Frame 640 ( one made w/o the silly locking mechanism of the last few years)?
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