Rah wrote in Ref to my not using the safety on my AR:
That seems an odd deviation from your norm...why?
Great question Rah. It was the way I was instructed. A friend who is a retired Army Ranger coached me to:
> Carry my AR with a fully loaded mag, with no round in the chamber, bolt locked back and
extraction opening port closed. To load and shoot press bolt lock release, weapon ready to fire.
I asked him why and he told me "memory retention. Do you turn your selector to safety before
you change mags each time?" A friend of my brother who is a small arms trainer in Afghanistan
carries his M4 the same way when he visits us at the BOL.
> At the BOL I use to store my AR with a loaded mag, round in the chamber and safety on by the
door. We have a coyote problem and it is just quicker when one comes into the field below our
cabin to engage the beast. I use to put my AR in the corner for the night, butt down and muzzle
up. The Ranger coached me to store the weapon muzzle down butt up and no round in the
chamber and set up as described above. I asked him why and he told me, "he would rather have
a stray round go into the floor rather then through the roof"
and again "memory
retention."
