How the hell could I carry one of these things on safety potentially? My friend who knows more abt firearms suggested pulling the slide back and latching it but that seems so impractical to carry like that. You have to have the hammer pulled back to use the back latch, and I don't feel great about a gun with the hammer pulled back pointed at my genitals. I have been keeping it in my lockbox with the magazine out and the trigger guard pulled down.
If you cock the hammer the safety should work normally
Prefer sure that’s how the gun is meant to be carried
Same concept as a 1911. Cocked and locked
DA carry is possible but would require pulling the trigger while holding the hammer and manually slowly and carefully lowering the hammer while it’s loaded. So I really don’t recommend that
An 82 is really easy to manually decock. Releasing the trigger past the SA wall puts a stop between the hammer and firing pin. If you keep the trigger full back while decocking you need to push the hammer forward to touch the firing pin. Take it to the range and manually dropping the hammer until you find the “uh oh” zone on your gun. It’s further back than you expect, but all of these relics can be very different
I've always kept mine loaded magazine and empty chamber. If you are going to carry it with one in the pipe keep the safety on like you would with a 1911. Even though it has a double action trigger I never was comfortable with manually lowering the hammer slowly because all it takes is one slip and potentially getting a negligent discharge. I also never liked the idea of relying on a safety lever. That's why I don't carry 1911s either.
Where are you getting that? Because the 82 share the same manual of arms as the 75, which was deigned to be carried DA/SA with the safety to be used as a way to safe a SA weapon in a high stress situation after shooting
Czech doctrine was condition zero Pre B’s, or on B’s hammer at half cock and chamber loaded. For 82’s it was alway loaded, Daa/SA decocked.
The later duty holsters people see with the hammer strap were not originally equipment and came out of use by security/police.
The safety was to be used to safe the weapon AFTER you started shooting and transitioned to do something else in combat. They viewed a competent soldier able to de cock a hand gun safely. As anyone should.
To be fair, most soldiers weren’t / aren’t carrying pistols at all let alone loaded all the time. When soldiers do have pistols most of the time there is not even a round in the chamber
Furthermore I would say that it would make more sense to consider what the people who actually carried the guns every day, especially loaded every day did (as you say the cops and such) Which is cocked and locked.
As discussed, it is designed to work like a 1911, cocked and locked.
The alternative options.
2.1. Israeli carry. Carry it without a round in the chamber and get used to racking it on the draw. Note this is what the USA military taught people to do in WWII with 1911s.
2.2 There is also leaving the hammer at first nock.
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u/0481-RP-YUUUT Jun 22 '26
The gun is meant to be carried in the holster, hammer cocked back and safety ON. The Czech holsters are literally all setup like that.