SA/DA/DAO

[82Magnum]

I just saw Dick Metcalf on Guns and Ammo TV talking about single action, double action, and double action only revolvers. The way he explained, single action means you can fire the gun "only one way"...cock the hammer and pull the trigger. Double action means you can fire the gun "two ways"...cock the hammer and pull the trigger or pull the trigger with the hammer forward. He didn't say anything about the function of the trigger.

I'm probably just arguing language here, but doesn't double action mean that the "trigger performs two actions" (hence the term double action) ...cocking and firing gun? In a single action gun, the trigger performs "only one action" (a single action) ...dropping the hammer.

He also looked at a DOA revolver and said that it's some other creature all together like he didn't realize the presence of the internal hammer.

I just think that a senior member of the Guns and Ammo staff would know the correct terminology. Feel free to call me a dork for worrying about this.

 

[ugaarguy]

I agree with you. Actions are what the trigger pull does not ways of firing the gun. Otherwise DAO would be self-cocking single action or some other weird name, and what we think of as a single action revolver would have to be called manual cocking single action to distinguish it.

 

[isp2605]

https://www.midwayusa.com/guntecdictionary.exe/browse

 

[rem1187a]

You Dork

....hey somebody had to take you up on that.no offense. Maybe he was trying to explain it in a different way to make it easier for some to understand. Technically correct...no. Easier to understand for someone not familiar to guns.....maybe. I have explained it both ways to people.Most seem to understand better when explained as Mr. Metcalf did and then explaining the trigger performing the single action or double action.