One solution is a holster with a thumb break or safety strap blocking the hammer. Some shooters simply cannot feel comfortable carrying a 1911 cocked, even if firing it requires releasing two safeties and pressing the trigger. Even the original short tang grip safety did a fairly good job of shielding the hammer. With most modern 1911 designs the beavertail grip safety curls around the hammer to protect it from impact. Most shooters who carry one use the cocked-and-locked mode - full magazine, cartridge in the chamber, hammer at full cock and manual safety engaged. Load one chamber, skip one, load four, bring the hammer to full cock and carefully lower it on the empty chamber. When loading a traditional single action Colt or similar revolver, open the loading gate and bring the hammer to the third (loading) notch, which frees the cylinder to rotate. The rule “five beans in the wheel” is as old as the revolver. A brisk blow to the hammer spur will almost certainly cause the revolver to fire. The interface between the notch and the thin tip of the sear is not very robust. The purpose of the safety notch is (we hope!) to catch the hammer should it slip while being cocked. And no, keeping the hammer in the “safety notch” is not an option. A blow to the hammer spur can cause the cartridge to fire. If there’s a live cartridge in the chamber under the hammer, the firing pin is pressing on the primer. The firing pin of the Colt SAA attaches to the hammer. Throughout the nearly 150 years of its existence, it’s been common knowledge to keep an empty chamber under the hammer whenever the revolver is loaded. The Colt Single Action Army was introduced in 1873 and with only occasional breaks has been in production to the present day.
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