NO MATTER WHAT...always always always always chamber check a firearm..even if you just handed it to your buddy, and he handed it right back..make it a point to check. Every morning when you take your 1911 out of the pistol safe in your room, press check it and make sure there is a round in the camber then sweep back on the thumb safety, then holster. (I have an annoying habit that only showed up doing IDPA shoots, I sweep the safety on after engaging a target and while moving to the next...so I go,click, bang, click, click, bang, click while I am moving thru the scenario...not a great tactical maneuver, but it definitely is a safety thing [which in a tactical situation is baaaaaaad])
Once you train yourself to be methodical...DON'T GET COMPLACENT!
I have read stories about guys who have had decades of safe handling oops and fire off a round by a simple booboo...don't be one of those guys.
The 1911 was designed to be carried cocked and locked...there are three physical safety's that must be operated in order to have it fire, the 1911 is a "it doesn't go bang w/o a thought process involved" type of gun, well a "firearm safety" thought process anyway.
And just burn the 4 rules of gun safety in your brain...it should calm your nerves knowing that that pistol is designed for utmost safety, the only dangerous part of that hunk of steel is the loose safety behind the trigger.
AKA...booger hook off the bang switch!
