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Old 12-19-2010, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by stantheman86 View Post
I am interested in the hammer blocks of other brands, like Charter Arms, etc. They may use a transfer bar, I don't have one so I don't know.

but people carry Charter revolvers every day, just curious what kind of drop safeties they have. I also checked out my older Taurus .38 and without taking the plate off there was no hammer block I could see, although it may look different.

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Charters have a transfer bar. Not going to fire unless the trigger is all the way back.

Double action Colts have a positive hammer block as well from well before WWII. Sometime around 1905 ish.

Some Iver Johnson's had transfer bars as well I believe back as far as the 19th century.
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