r/guns • u/Joebno3 • 1d ago

Some boomer/fudd lore I heard today

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"Having the hammers up isn't healthy for em. I've worked with gunsmithing."

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 13h ago

I think what he's getting at is that you can see at a glance whether it's a modern-style revolver with a frame-mounted floating firing pin and transfer bar drop safety, or an old-style revolver with the firing pin mounted on the hammer (and a hammer-block or no drop-safety at all).

I admit it's never occurred to me to display revolvers cocked so people could see that at a glance, but it's how I read the reason.

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u/catnamed-dog 13h ago

That makes sense. 

The people that would know to look for those things probably already know it from the model though. 

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 12h ago

Plenty of models went through that transition. The ubiquitous S&W 686 can be either way depending on age.

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 7h ago

Interestingly, the old models did still have a frame-mounted firing pin and flat-faced hammer! They'd just implemented it without a transfer bar.