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Link: Apr 2 2014, 12:39
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That moment when I try for a dramatic selfie & realize there is nowhere in my office that isn't covered in dog toys. *laughs*

Link: Apr 3 2014, 7:44

The ARCs of A Shiver of Light just arrived! June 3, 2014 and all of you will finally be able to read it for yourselves! The extra in the picture is my Sig Sauer P238, which I posted on FaceBook yesterday with a selfie, and I got a lot of comments. I tried to answer questions then, but my answers got buried, so here it is from the top. The Sig P238 is a .380 not a 9mm. I am looking at it as the new backup gun for Anita to carry, so I'm seeing how comfortable it is to carry under various types of clothing. For those who complained about the hammer being cocked, regardless of positioning of hammer, I was carrying condition 4. Condition 4 means chamber is empty & no magazine in the gun, which means the gun is as unloaded as it can get. I have been practicing carrying the Sig at different condition levels. Right now it's condition 1, round chambered, hammer cocked, safety on. At the moment the rounds are snap caps, so I can practice drawing and dry firing without endangering anyone, or thing, and not damaging the gun. I have Anita carry condition 3 a lot of the time, unless she's actively in a dangerous situation. Condition 3 is empty chamber, full magazine, and for me if the gun has an external safety that allows use without the hammer being cocked, I will put the safety on. It's just habit for me, if there's a safety on the gun I use it. I had the safety on the Sig yesterday when I took the picture, even though the gun was completely safe either way. Some guns will not allow the safety to be engaged without the hammer being cocked, this is not true of the P238, but one of the things I was testing was if the gun caught on clothing more with hammer cocked, or uncocked. Thus the whole no magazine in the gun while I tested the Sig in various holsters with it cocked, and uncocked. It actually made no difference on clothing, holster, or ease of draw for me yesterday. And before someone complains that a totally empty gun is useless, I had the extra magazine close at hand, and if a real bad guy had started coming up the stairs to my office, I am confident that I could pop the snap cap magazine out, and put the live magazine in ready for use before the villain got through the door. It's much the same thing that Anita does when she switches from lead to the more expensive silver ammo in the books.