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Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?
29/09/23 08:30 AM

My early experience with double guns was as kids we started off shooting rabbits and ducks with 410's our father made from old 303 SMLE's but we also had a light little Belgian made 28g double hammer shotgun, Damascus twist barrels and all.
One conundrum with this gun was once you cocked the RH hammer you could not open the gun as the top lever operation was inhibited by the cocked hammer. To open and make the gun safe you had to uncock the RH hammer, both hammers had quite strong springs and young kids thumbs are not as strong as adults but surprisingly we never had any AD's with the gun. Likewise couldn't carry the gun open with hammers cocked as the top lever in the open position prevented the RH hammer being cocked.

I don't think you would want a gun like this for DG hunting. If you got out of sequence when reloading, cocking or uncocking in a hurry you might be caught out unless very familiar and proficient with the gun when under stress.

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Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	15/06/20 05:56 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	mauserand9mm	15/06/20 07:53 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	Rockdoc	15/06/20 09:01 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	Longknife	15/06/20 10:23 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	Huvius	15/06/20 11:58 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	4seventy	16/06/20 03:01 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	rigbymauser	16/06/20 03:57 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 08:25 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	EDELWEISS	16/06/20 09:49 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	rigbymauser	17/06/20 12:12 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 08:43 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	DarylS	16/06/20 12:14 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 08:44 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 08:55 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 09:04 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 09:07 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 10:02 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	16/06/20 10:03 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	DarylS	17/06/20 01:52 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	EDELWEISS	17/06/20 11:07 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	mauserand9mm	17/06/20 11:22 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	17/06/20 11:40 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	27/09/23 04:52 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	DarylS	28/09/23 04:02 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	NitroX	29/09/23 04:38 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	3DogMike	29/09/23 05:21 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	eagle27	29/09/23 08:30 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	3DogMike	29/09/23 10:51 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	HeymSR20	29/09/23 08:23 PM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	85lc	29/09/23 03:04 AM
Re: Hammers on firearms for dangerous game hunting?	EDELWEISS	17/06/20 10:39 PM

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