3913 Spurred Hammer

[4T5GUY]

I'm glad it went well for you, but I'm extremely happy you got it done yourself. Small steps and all that.

The next time you do anything like that it'll be that much easier.

I'm also happy that you could use the spurred hammer I didn't want anymore.

Jim

 

[N4KVE]

So far, I brought my 3913, 4516, & 469 to my Smith for this conversion. It only takes him a few minutes to do it, & most of that time is used for testing the gun after the swap. I would not own these guns as they came from the factory. GARY.

 

[josywales]

Am I the only one that doesn't find "catching" and pulling back a spotless hammer too difficult? I had thought about a mall scenario, we live near the largest in the US and it's mess at time, where A crow of unruly folks rush the halls. I figure on that scenario, it would be nice to clock that hammer. The spurless have notches and I don't find it that difficult. If I don't have time for it, I'm flying DA anyway.

 

[Welshman]

Am I the only one that doesn't find "catching" and pulling back a spotless hammer too difficult? I had thought about a mall scenario, we live near the largest in the US and it's mess at time, where A crow of unruly folks rush the halls. I figure on that scenario, it would be nice to clock that hammer. The spurless have notches and I don't find it that difficult. If I don't have time for it, I'm flying DA anyway.

Maybe. Which gun do you have?

By the time I pull the trigger far enough to be able to "catch" the hammer, I may as well just shoot it. My hammer does not have notches.

But then again, my hammer is not "spotless".

 

[TercGen]

Am I the only one that doesn't find "catching" and pulling back a spotless hammer too difficult? I had thought about a mall scenario, we live near the largest in the US and it's mess at time, where A crow of unruly folks rush the halls. I figure on that scenario, it would be nice to clock that hammer. The spurless have notches and I don't find it that difficult. If I don't have time for it, I'm flying DA anyway.

I find it to be very easy to catch a half-pulled bobbed hammer and cock it, when dry-firing and even at the range from time to time. In an adrenaline-fueled, stressful situation though, I could see it being a much harder thing to do, and therefore I always practice shooting my first shot DAO.

The only gun I have ever missed catching the hammer on in this way is my late-production 457 with a very smooth trigger. It only happened once while dry-firing at home, and was a good lesson on how easily this technique can go wrong.