I'm sure it takes a lot of practice.

I witnessed this only once. New Years Shoot in NH years ago. Austin Hogan did this with his hammer gun. Skeet station eight. Called for a double, low house first and overhead from high house. Hammer gun uncocked, mounted low gun. Called pull, cocked both hammers and he smashed them both.

This is the way I hunt a hammer gun too. It’s by far the safest way to hunt with a hammer gun.





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I’ll have to check the mainspring tension on the locks of the gun he was shooting that day. As I recall it was the 2-frame Grade 0 twelve gauge with the Vulcan Steel barrels.
Austin left that gun to the PGCA and dubbed it the “Editors Gun” and I will pass it along to the next editor of Parker Pages. It is a really nice shooting gun.

I have never been able to cock my hammers on the rise of a flushing bird or clay in time to get off a decent shot... hence my reasoning in having both hammers cocked and the action open while hunting. I think it’s a bit unsafe to be quickly trying to cock hammers against stubborn mainsprings.... What happens when you mess up ? And all that unnecessary cocking and releasing the hammers again and again on barrels remaining unfired is, in my mind, just asking for a slip up.





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I have attended a series of your lectures on Acquisition & Justification of Double guns. I know you could easily work it out:rotf:

Because the Chairman keeps plenty of birds for the Boys, and finding they prefer you to kill one with regularity I can see a hammer gun getting some practice. As for a hammer 28ga, and the fact that I am not allergic to upgrades that’s a phone call to another Uncle, a bit of pleading and hand wringing, but has been done before.

Why must you put these thoughts in my head:cuss:

i have had a couple of upland hammer guns that i could cock both hammers as i raised the gun, i hunteud grouse and woodcock for years with that 30" Wm Moore & Grey i had listed here some time ago.

i will admit to having some trouble cocking both on my Parker 10, that one has very strong springs

I gave the method of open gun and hammers cocked a go a couple of times but mostly just lost the shells that were in the gun:shock:

Austin Hogan that New Years Day at Major Waldron's in New Hampshire with his hammer gun.

Well, that didn't work...
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Probably a really dumb question but those of you who carry gun closed and hammers down, how do you cock both barrels at the same time? You must have a really long thumb -- or do you somehow reach back with the other hand, kind of like they do with a six gun on a fast draw in spaghetti westerns?

i carry it with my thumb across the top of the action, web of the hand against the frame, barrels up - i can pull both hammers back as I rotate the gun into position

When I hunt with a hammer gun I cheat. It has a safety.