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Need to know what it is you have? Some will be use the appropriate ammo for age, others may have special requirements.
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I have nothing with ears. But have been trolling the site and would like to play ball. I just want to know what I'm getting into on a break action hammer gun
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that is a surprise to me, my MECs feed my 12 an 10 gauge hammer guns
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BTW
assuming equal safe shooting condition, the only difference is how the hammers are cocked
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Ok. Thx. There is a Parker on a cabelas site that states must use brass shells. This is what got me concerned. I have sever Damascus barrels on my guns and always use short hull, low pressure loads, just didn’t know if there was something more to be learned about the hammer, lifter, etc Parkers
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It is fun to shoot brass black powder shells in hammer guns as that is what most of the would have shot when new. I do that, but shoot smokeless most of the time. I agree and follow the same principles as many of the comments above. I shoot the same low pressure loads in my hammer and hammer-less guns. RST shells is a great place to get shells if your new to composite barrels(I just noticed you said you shoot alot of damascus and so you probably already know this...).
If you can, try to find someone close to you from our organization PGCA and maybe you be able to try a hammer gun. You'll be hooked for sure. I have bought several Parkers described as black powder only and they get a Red Dot load(10 or 12) directly from a MEC 600jr. Good luck and you didn't ask this...but you definitely need a hammer gun! |
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02-07-2019, 07:23 AM | #10 | ||||||
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Even with lifters and the early T/A hammer guns with chambers and bores designed for brass shells and black powder (stepped chamber termination and no forcing cones) it is perfectly safe (all other aspects of the barrels deemed safe) to shoot plastic or paper hulls. I currently have four such guns and shoot RST cheddites in all of them.
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