Do you carry your CCW with +1?

[Mity2]

I usualy carry my M&P with full mag. So I have 17rds(16 in mag, 1 in tube).
But I guess I could carry 17 in mag, and 1 in tube total of 18rds.

Never did it. Honestly I never thought about it. Strange, since I'm believe more ammo is better then more punch, but less ammo count.

Do you guys carry +1?

[jahwarrior72]

yep, always.

[LittleRedToyota]

yes i do. can't think of any reason not to--unless maybe you often have to unload and check your weapon (like maybe you go to courthouses a lot) and want to have a place to put the round from the chamber.

[XD45]

I usually fill the mag back up.

Unless i'm gonna be OCing, then I find it to be a good idea to leave a place open for the officer to put the round from the chamber

[knight0334]

I load a round into the chamber and close the action/slide - then insert a full mag. Am always at full capacity - well, unless I had to bust a cap in someone or some critter.

[Kaos]

yep, I have a mag filled with a few for this purpose (say after a cleaning etc) for loading one, then I put my carry mag back in.

but generally it's just left that way all the time, with one in the pipe, even when it goes back into the safe at the end of the night.

[XD45]

I load a round into the chamber and close the action/slide - then insert a full mag. Am always at full capacity - well, unless I had to bust a cap in someone or some critter.

guess it can depend on the auto, but I was always under the impression that dropping the slide on a round placed in the chamber was a nono.

[LittleRedToyota]

I load a round into the chamber and close the action/slide - then insert a full mag.

if you mean you manually place the round into the chamber and then close the slide on it, just be aware that doing that is hard on the extractor in many semi-auto pistols.

the extractor then has to move way out to get around the rim of the case...whereas when loaded from a magazine, the round slides up under the extractor rather than the extractor having to go around it.

so, it is a better idea with many guns to insert a magazine witht he slide locked back, drop the slide to strip a round off the mag, drop the mag, put another round in it, and then reinsert the full mag.

[bigbear]

I load a round into the chamber and close the action/slide - then insert a full mag. Am always at full capacity - well, unless I had to bust a cap in someone or some critter.

I hope that you don't carry a Glock, doing this will damage the extractor.

[Seventy4Blazer]

yep, always.

that would be my answer as well....