question

[charlie cleveland]

when hunting with a hammer double gun and your right handed which hammer do you normally cock first the right hammer or the left....if your left handed which hammer do yoy cock first left or right.....I m right handed and for some reason icock the left hammer first....just wondering......charlie

[Daryl Corona]

Never thought about it Charlie but I'm a lefty and cock the right hammer first.

[Mike Koneski]

I am right handed and cock the left hammer first. I find it easier to cock the left hammer first so I'm not trying to work around a cocked hammer.

[Keith Sirmans]

Right handed and right barrel. It is almost always the barrel I shoot first on the rest of the doubles. Usually the more opened choked barrel too

[CraigThompson]

I’ve had a person or two tell me they cock both hammers at the same time . I tried it and didn’t find it very comfortable.

[Keith Sirmans]

I can't either. When a turkey is coming in I will cock both hammers individually

[Mills Morrison]

I never thought about it, but I think I do it several ways.

[CraigThompson]

I’ve used a hammer 8 gauge at a tower shoot so I wasn’t worried about noise . But I’ve hunted deer from a treestand with a hammer gun along . And I usually pull the hammer back with the trigger pressed back to keep from making the click sound . And of course you have to be a bit more carefull doing it that way :whistle:

[Bruce Hering]

Right-handed, I do the right hammer first and then left. Never tried doing them both at the same time. This is on a Brit gun (Armstrong) 12ga. light game gun. The hammer springs are strong.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I've got a couple British guns I can cock them both at once, but I've never handled a Parker where I could manage it. I'm a lefty but I seem to always cock the right barrel first.

[Dean Romig]

There are those who think my method is unorthadox and even unsafe, but I can assure them that my method is at least as safe as shooting/hunting with a hammerless gun with a safety.
When I enter the field or woods, and when I'm in position at the traps, I will drop the shells into the chambers, cock both hammers and close the gun only when I'm walking in to the flush or when I'm about to call "Pull!" This way I don't have to think about cocking my gun in a hurried or stressful situation.
When I have taken my shot or shots, I open the gun and repeat the process.





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[Daniel Carter]

Dean i agree with you and your method. At the target traps most guns have a manual safety that is never used and in some guns they are not there at all. A hammerless gun the moment it is closed is ready to fire, no different than a hammer gun.

In the field what is the difference between releasing a safety catch or closing the action at the flush? None i would think, both take a safe gun to one ready to fire at the same instant. Carrying hammers cocked, action closed would be the same as hammerless carried safety off.
They are equally safe used your way.

[Gary Bodrato]

I think its natural to cock the offside hammer first, being that with the onside hammer down(uncocked) you can just pull down with your thumb. With the onside hammer cocked it makes you move your whole hand to cock the offside hammer

[Harold Lee Pickens]

shoot quite a few hammer guns, for me its always right then left( Im right handed).