American Small Arms; a Veritable Encyclopedia of Knowledge for Sportsmen And Military Men
American Small Arms; a Veritable Encyclopedia of Knowledge for Sportsmen And Military Men
Edward S Edward Samuel Farrow
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With such guns an accidental discharge may take place in two ways, by the trigger be- ing pulled unintentionally, or by the hammers being released through a break in the mechanism of the lock, or jarred off through rough handling, a blow, or a fall, or one hammer jarring off when the other barrel was fired. To prevent ac- Digitized by Google AMERICAN SMALL ARMS 129 cidents of the first description the gun is usually provided with an automatic safety which blocks the triggers as soon as the hamm...ers are cocked, so that they cannot be pulled until the safety is pushed up or off safe. Safeties are obviously the most important point in the make-up of the hammerless gun, and in select- ing a gun should receive the first and most careful attention. The common automatic trigger safety such as is described above caused great annoyance from the fact that at any time, and especially when firing rapidly, one was very apt to forget to push up the safety and lose his shot thereby, which brought down unlimited wrath on the safety that was altogether too safe.
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