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Originally Posted by Frank Cronin
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.
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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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