I have a soft spot for hammer guns especially for target shooting. Last year I found a W.R. Pape 28ga hammer gun. I have a Parker 16ga lifter that's fun to shoot and the comments on the clays course make me smile.
If the gun was to be used mostly as a hunting gun then I would go hammerless. I have hunted with a hammer gun on a preserve by myself and it was uncomfortable to me from a safety stand point. I have fallen in the grouse woods a couple of times and if that were to happen with a cocked hammer gun it could be disastrous.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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