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Originally Posted by iHasCamaro
It's not ideal IMHO to carry w/o one in the chamber. However, if you are new, you might inadvertently do something that could pull the trigger (ala Glock leg). So you might want to carry it ****ed but w/ magazine in but no round in the chamber till you figure out all your routines. After you are comfortable that nothing you are doing is likely to pull the trigger, go ahead and keep one in the chamber. There is always danger involved, but to me it is outweighed by the danger of fumbling around w/ a pistol trying to chamber a round when you should be shooting someone already.
Your M&P is similar to my Springfield XDM's, which acts basically like a modern revolver, but with a shorter trigger. And there is no safety on a revolver that I know of.
The one danger I worry about keeping one in the chamber is not from accidental discharge, but back-setting of the chambered round after repeated re-chamberings (unloading for the range, etc.) I keep lots of self-defense rounds, and every round I un-chamber goes into a box and replaced by a new round. I then measure the round to make sure it is well within overall length tolerances and is not deformed before it goes back into a magazine.
A bullet set too far back has a danger of blowing up your pistol and your hand. Not something you want to have happen. Especially if the goal was to blow up the bad guy, because you just did a lot of his work for him instead.
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Right now I only have a box of 50 PD rounds. I keep one mag loaded. So far the plan is every 2 weeks or so, I download one mag into the box, and get 10 fresh rounds into the other mag... To cycle them a bit. I see your point though.