KJS
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If you are target shooting with a DA revolver do you manually cock the hammer or do you feel that a DA revolver should be shot DA basically all the time?
I'm a novice and I personally have always cocked the hammer. I used to assume that this was the manner in which almost everyone used a revolver, with the obvious exceptions of an emergency where you must fire DA as you don't have a moment to spare to manually cock it or in the case of some revolvers made for concealed carry that DAO as the hammer is covered so as to not snag.
And if you normally fire it DA, why? Is this to prepare you for some emergency situation that I give as an exception above where you'd want to fire DA?
Seems like SA shooting is natural enough. After all, there was a time when SA was the only kind of revolver that existed. And plenty of semi-autos are SA as well, so cocking the hammer manually replicates the short, light trigger pull of both modern autoloaders & 19th century revolvers that cowboys carried.
I'm a novice and I personally have always cocked the hammer. I used to assume that this was the manner in which almost everyone used a revolver, with the obvious exceptions of an emergency where you must fire DA as you don't have a moment to spare to manually cock it or in the case of some revolvers made for concealed carry that DAO as the hammer is covered so as to not snag.
And if you normally fire it DA, why? Is this to prepare you for some emergency situation that I give as an exception above where you'd want to fire DA?
Seems like SA shooting is natural enough. After all, there was a time when SA was the only kind of revolver that existed. And plenty of semi-autos are SA as well, so cocking the hammer manually replicates the short, light trigger pull of both modern autoloaders & 19th century revolvers that cowboys carried.