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Fastbolt · 08-13-2011, 06:40 PM

I'm confused by your post. Maybe I'm just not understanding it.

If you have a 6906, it ought to be a traditional double action (TDA) pistol, meaning with the hammer forward (at rest) it requires a double action trigger pull to fire the gun.

When it's fired for the first shot in DA mode, the slide will cycle and leave the hammer cocked (back) in single action mode, now requiring a shorter trigger pull to fire the gun in single action.

This single action firing mode will repeat with each subsequent trigger pull until you either run out of ammunition (at which time the slide will lock back on an empty magazine), or you decide to stop shooting, and then decock the gun using the safety lever (which safely returns the hammer forward).

Some folks refer to this TDA design as DA/SA, meaning the first shot is fired in DA mode (longer/heavier trigger pull needed to pull back the hammer and release it) and subsequent shots are fired in SA mode (shorter/lighter trigger pull).

The hammer should only go forward from the single action/cocked position if you deliberately pull the trigger, or if you lower the safety lever(s) to decock the gun.

If the hammer follows the slide forward during normal shooting, you have a problem of some sort. You should stop shooting the gun and take it to someone for diagnosis and repair. (Mixing up the ambi safety lever spring with the manual safety body plunger spring can result in unintentional decocking during firing, for example, letting the hammer decock and putting the gun On-Safe, or there could be a problem with the sear spring, sear or hammer's single action notches.)

The safety lever(s) can be left in the down, On-Safe/decock position when loading the gun, meaning when you let the locked-back slide go forward to pick up a round from the magazine and chamber it, but then the lever(s) will have to be raised to the Off-Safe/Ready-to-fire position in order to fire the gun.

If you have a 6946, however, you have a double action only (DAO) gun. The hammer never remains back in the same way as it does in a TDA gun.