Bulseyetom wrote on Sep 15^th, 2018 at 8:13pm:


Click?  If the hammer dropped from half-cock & you didn't break the sear, you were lucky.

slumlord44 wrote on Sep 15^th, 2018 at 10:02pm:


DeHass says "some" 44s.  But the question pertained to 44-1/2 models, so the answer is still no. I think the half-cock mechanism is a good idea, & walking around with a gun at full-cock is asking for trouble.  I admit that in an Indian fight, or other combat situation, the half-cock would be a disadvantage, but otherwise, not.

I don't recall if they were all due to full cock on close, but unintentional discharges is why I shut down the LRBP at Tacoma.

Hunting with a Stevens on full cock? Seriously?

I can't understand why one would want the gun to go to full cock if he plans to lower to half cock for carrying? Seems like a fix for a non existent problem.
On guns I own that are in full cock after loading I lower them to half cock to carry anyway. All my Rolling Blocks are in full cock after loading, except my Whitney Laidly that is loaded at half cock. Never been an issue to lower to half cock, or cock it before shooting.

I am not sure how anybody got the idea that I am walking around with my loaded rifle at full clock.  I normally hunt with one in the chamber and at half clock if I am by myself in even ground and empty if with other people or on hillsides.  The issue that prompted me to see if it was an easy conversion to the Hi Wall configuration so that when you load it stays at full clock if desired was walking along with my partner, we spotted a nice 4x4 mule deer 200 yards off.  He was shooting a B78 in 25-06 so calmly pulled the hammer to full clock and let fly.  In the meantime I had moved 10 yards to a nice rock for a rest and loaded my Stevens.  To my surprise he missed and the deer turned broadside to me and stopped to look back at a second buck.  I held behind the shoulder and let fly but nothing went boom.  After a second I realised I wasn't using my Browning so pulled back the hammer and proceeded to aim again.  This time it went boom and the rest is history.  Last year I was walking by myself when I topped a rise and 75 yards away a deer was munching away not knowing I was in the same time zone.  I loaded one in and instant replay, nothing went boom.   I realize that a man with one rifle is the way to go but I have hunted for 20 years with the B78 and in the moments when instinct kicks in I assume incorrectly that I am cocked when loading.  To remain at half clock is safer but remaining at full clock until lowered is not unlike working a bolt action and clambering a round from the magazine.  My Borchardt has an automatic safety which I think is the best thing going. Again, I am not wandering around the mountains with a cocked rifle.  Tom

Schuetzenmiester wrote on Sep 17^th, 2018 at 9:01pm:


Anybody that excitable, beyond the age of 15 or 16, shouldn't have a hunting license.