Close together hammer spurs on a double

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halfmoonclip

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Had an old buddy/neighbor when I was a teenager. It was another time, but he kept a whole assortment of interesting/older guns. These days, someone would call Children and Youth.
There was what I recall as a pretty presentable Trapdoor Springfield, and a side-by double.
It had a feature I've never seen since; the hammer spurs were so close that it was easy to thumb them both at once.
It seems a really useful idea.
Anyone else encounter a double like this?
Moon
 
Savage/Stevens had an over/under 410 that had the two hammers close together. Model 242, I believe.
 
Wish I could remember more, and I've lost touch with the family. It had a side swinging barrel release.
His bedroom window was maybe forty feet from mine, and we'd BS after dark. Sometimes he'd put a magnetic flashlight on the shotgun (he was a man ahead of his time; we're talking 1960). But he'd point it at me, too...back then, it wasn't a big deal.
Moon
 
halfmoonclip said:
Had an old buddy/neighbor when I was a teenager. It was another time, but he kept a whole assortment of interesting/older guns. These days, someone would call Children and Youth.
There was what I recall as a pretty presentable Trapdoor Springfield, and a side-by double.
It had a feature I've never seen since; the hammer spurs were so close that it was easy to thumb them both at once.
It seems a really useful idea.
Anyone else encounter a double like this?
Moon
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IMO it's good and bad.

Good: The hammers are close enough to cock both together.

Bad: Cocking both hammers at the same time is hard to do with one thumb...double the difficulty to pull them back.
 
luv2safari said:
Bad: Cocking both hammers at the same time is hard to do with one thumb...double the difficulty to pull them back.
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Memory, being what it is at more than 60 years distance, was that they weren't all that tough to thumb back. But that may be just bad recollections, and the springs may have been a little tired.
There has to be a reason the design wasn't adapted by other makers, and your suggestions may have been the problem.
That, or the transition to self cocking concealed hammers, and repeating shotguns.
Moon
 
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halfmoonclip said:
Memory, being what it is at more than 60 years distance, was that they weren't all that tough to thumb back. But that may be just bad recollections, and the springs may have been a little tired.
There has to be a reason the design wasn't adapted by other makers, and yours suggestions may have been the problem.
That, or the transition to self cocking concealed hammers, and repeating shotguns.
Moon
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Some of my old hammer guns are easy to cock, and some need a come-along and anchor point. :p My American Gun Company has me using a lot of effort to cock just one hammer.:uhoh:
 
For normal use it doesn't matter too much. Some cowboy action shooters use hammered doubles and they prefer the guns with the hammers somewhat closer together. They're trying to go fast. There are different techniques that they use.
 
Smokin Gator said:
For normal use it doesn't matter too much. Some cowboy action shooters use hammered doubles and they prefer the guns with the hammers somewhat closer together. They're trying to go fast. There are different techniques that they use.
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Now that has to be true.
Moon
 
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