Manual decocking for production uspsa/ipsc

[drootang]

I am looking to get into production class uspsa/ipsc and am strongly leaning towards a CZ SP-01. There are two models I'm considering... one has a manual safety, the other has a decocking lever.

Considering that in production, the first shot must be double action, I would have to start hammer down. This doesn't rule out the manual safety version, but would mean having to manually decock the hammer.

Manually decocking seems like a really bad idea in general. As far as I can tell, if you're manually decocking, you might as well throw away all your gun-safety rules. Do people actually do this? Is this even legal in shooting sports?

[Lycanthrope]

Yes, people do it. Yes, it's legal.

People manually decock lever action deer rifles all the time.

Remember the four rules and it's ok.

Lycanthereyouhaveitthrope

[Frenchy]

I decock my CZ75 compact all the time, mind you the decocker brings it to 1/4 cock, and that in its self is ok too, hard to follow all the rules to decock the cz as you have to pull the trigger, you might liik into a lanyard to do it.

put the lanyard in the hamer hole, then pull the trigger while pointing in a safe direction and holding the lanyard back, slowly release the hammer down till it is fully decocked.

might want to practice this at the range a few times before you do it in a room too, it can get tricky to get the motion right.