Bobbed Hammer?

[dylanbrink]

I recently picked up a colt detective special. It is nickel and has a bobbed hammer. I was wondering if anybody knew if the bobbed hammer was done by someone or came that way from colt. I suspect it was done by someone but not 100% sure. Thanks for any feedback.

 

[CDH]

Here's a blurb about that I found:
During the Fourth Series, a model known as the "Bobbed Detective Special" with double action only lockwork and a de-spurred ("bobbed") hammer was offered.

So if yours is a double-action only, it may be an original bobbed-hammer version. If it's double/single-action, then the hammer might have been modded after the fact.

I bought a brand new Smith Model 60 for my wife a while back but her only complaint was that the hammer would snag on stuff in her purse.
Then one night, she accidently dropped it on a concrete floor and the tip of the hammer broke off, so I just "Dremeled" the sharp remaining knub to be rounded over and nice and smooth.

With her newfound bobbed-hammer "version" of her Model 60, she got to like it a lot. I liked it too and keep thinking I should do the same to my own Model 60.

 

[CDH]

Double post deleted.

 

[dfariswheel]

If it's a nickle gun and the area on the hammer where the spur was is NOT also nickle plated, the hammer is not a factory job.

Also, unless it was a Colt Custom job, almost all post-war Detective Specials with a removed hammer spur were double action ONLY.
Unload the gun and pull the hammer back. If it cocks, it's probably not factory.

Other than that, the only way to ever know for sure is to spend about $75. for a Colt factory letter.

 

[dylanbrink]

Thanks for the feedback, the hammer will stay cocked if i pull it back manually so I guess it is most likely not factory.

 

[nate18]

nice guns everybody

these are some pics of a friends guns out at the range the colt anaconda not sure about anything else on it

 

[Old Fuff]

dylanbrink:

If your "bobbed" Detective Special can still be thumb-cocked you might want to get it altered to double-action only (DAO). If the revolver is loaded and you get it cocked, lowering the hammer can be tricky, with a possibility of having an unexpected and unintended discharge. Most expecienced gunsmiths as well as the Colt company modify the action when they bob the hammer - for obvious reasons.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Recall a factory custom shop option was a bobbed hammer and a tritium front sight.