How do you cock it?
If it's stamped SPNY, it's possibly a state police gun, not an NYPD gun. Two totally different agencies with nothing in common.
Officers in the NYPD bought their guns from their equipment allowance, so I doubt their guns were stamped at all.
How do you cock it?
I really hoped someone would know I was kidding. But an actual question about this gun: If it had a hammer spur, could the gun be cocked? Is it just a SP101 with a hammer without the spur?Simple. Pull the trigger. It cocks itself, right before it lets the hammer go.
I really hoped someone would know I was kidding. But an actual question about this gun: If it had a hammer spur, could the gun be cocked? Is it just a SP101 with a hammer without the spur?
Awesome. Not sure it would be my cup of tea (I like spurs). But I certainly see the advantages of that style. Congratulations on the gun. It’s a great choice for an EDC. Has it been to the range yet?No it is DAO. What that means is their is no single-action sear surface. It is impossible to cock this gun for a single action shot, even if you grab the hammer and pull it back awkwardly.
What a lot of people will do is cut or grind the spur off their hammers. This does NOT make a DAO firearm. All it does is reduce the possibility of the hammer snagging on pants/clothes etc. as you draw, especially from the pocket. But it can still be cocked in single action as it still has the single action sear.
Interestingly, there is a bit of checkering on the very tip of the hammer on this gun. What that is used for is to have a place to better grips the hammer when disassembling the firearm as you have to put a little pin in the hammer strut to hold the mainspring in the compressed position so you can relieve tension off the action to remove the key parts. The hammer must be "cocked" to do this and it prevents slippage.
I stand corrected. After doing some research, I find the guns marked SPNY were "special purpose". and indeed bought by the NYPD for field testing before they were allowed to be adopted for use.These were made specifically for the NYPD, as in "New York CITY Police Department".
Also this is a DAO revolver. You couldn't cock it even if you wanted to, no single action sear.