Even when the hammers on a Parker hammerless shotgun have been dropped the springs are never completely relaxed - they remain under tension so it really doesn’t matter if you drop the hammers or not.
The hammers are conical in shape and the ‘cone’ terminates in a rounded point (firing pin per se) and the conical hammers drop into corresponding conical recesses in the frame. Dry firing a Parker hammerless shotgun does absolutely no harm.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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