Decocking

[Nyles]

As long as you're careful there's no reason not to decock it manually. My Radom and P.38 both have decockers but I always lower the hammer manually - force of habit, mostly, as most of my guns don't. That said it can even be a good thing - the late-war P.38s are known to have a brittle decocker and using it can cause it to break. If it does, the gun will fire when you put the safety on. The Czech CZ-52 has a similar problem. I just find it easier, and with some guns safer, to lower it by hand.