Mr. Bishop,
You raise a very good point regarding a potential saftey issue.
Your concern is slightly lessened with rebounding hammers, which removes the risk of the hammer placing pressure against the firing pin and causing a slam firing issue or closing issue.
I have watched some "old timers" and others who are very hammergun knowledgeable shoot guns without springs.
They all tend to do the same thing:
1. Shells fired,
2. Gun opened,
3. Shells removed,
4. Blow down both barrels ( or just one fired barrel),
5. Load new shells,
6. Use their index finger to (Ill use the word clear) clear or push the firing pins backwards,
7. Then they close the gun. (hammer cocking sequence is different for each one some are cocked before they close the gun some after)
In my experience the "clearing" of the pins or pushing them back only works if the gun is held so they dont fall forward. I asked one of these old timers and they said they do it to make sure the pins are freely floating and not gummed up or stuck.
To date I have not had an issue following these steps. I feel like as long as the pins are moving freely they will contact the cartridge and ride up it as the gun is closed and not place any pressure enough to cause a slam fire.
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