I've Been Wrong Before, BUT

EDDIE BUCK · #1 10/03/08, 01:04 AM

After watching deerhunting shows on TV time after time after time and hunting all my life with a singlebarrel shotgun, a blackpowder rifle with a hammer or a leveraction rifle it bugs me everytime I see one of those professional TV hunters cock or pull the hammer back and hear that click that we all know the sound it makes. I have seen deer seem to turn wrong side out at the snap of a small twig I stepped on. Don't they know that if you pull the trigger back and hold it, then pull the hammer back and release the trigger,no sound will be heard. How many of you folks didn't know that?Now todays newer hammer guns I,m not sure about them, but I think that holds true with them. Eddie

Steve L. · #2 10/03/08, 06:59 AM

That's true, but it also greatly increases the risk of an accidental discharge.

I've hunted with exposed hammer single shots and single action revolvers all of my life, and never had a deer spook because of a 'hammer click'.

My rule is to never touch the trigger unless I'm willing to allow the bullet to exit the barrel.

Haggis · #3 10/03/08, 08:36 AM

I do both: pull the trigger, pull back the hammer hold it, then ease off the trigger to leave the gun cocked, and I just cock the gun, oily "snick" and all. It depends on what I'm hunting. I've never had a problem with large game where the animal might be 50 yards or more away from me, but small game, especially previously hunted gray squirrels, will bolt at the faintest noise.

Many leveractions and singleshots don't make a lot of noise, but the hammers and frizzens of traditional muzzleloaders can really sound off in the still air of a frosty morning.

Oldcountryboy · #4 10/04/08, 09:46 PM

Seems to me if you click the hammer back while they're walking it doesn't spook them like when they're standing still. If they're standing still their ears are working the sounds out there.

big rockpile · #5 10/04/08, 10:34 PM

First Buck I ever shot was with a Single Shot 12ga. Pulled the Hammer back,his ears came up I shot him.Well he was laying there kicking.I went to reload.I closed it on my Bibs,here I was trying to pull it lose.Finally I open it again and get lose.

Yea I was a Little excited.:banana02:

big rockpile