Unmarked Hammer 12 Ga. Shotgun

[Rocky Nivison]

Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard

If you try to fire that gun with fingers on both triggers then both barrels will go off, it won't matter what kind of shells you're shooting. If you're actually serious about shooting 3 1/2 magum shells in it then I would question your sanity. They do have fluid steel barrels, at least every one I've ever seen, so you could shoot regular field loads in it without a problem if the wall thickness was good. But anything else would just be silly in a cheap old gun like that.


Destry

Thank you Sir,
Even though I too know it would handle high power loads I don’t think I will ever shoot the gun unless for prosperity with 2 low brass loads. If I bored it out to 3 ½” and sawed off the barrel and stock it would just be for the grand kids to play with and Mama to scare off burglars. I would remove the firing pins and braze the holes before doing that. It would take at least an 18 point buck with a 28” spread and 4 fingers of something else before I would fire it like that with 2.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Rocky Nivison

Even though I too know it would handle high power loads

I'm fairly certain no one else here told you it would handle 'high power loads, and I seriously doubt it would be real happy.

Originally Posted by Rocky Nivison

I don’t think I will ever shoot the gun unless for prosperity with 2 low brass loads.

Do you mean posterity?

Originally Posted by Rocky Nivison

If I bored it out to 3 ½” and sawed off the barrel and stock it would just be for the grand kids to play with and Mama to scare off burglars. I would remove the firing pins and braze the holes before doing that

Why bother 'boring it out to 3 1/2" then? The curator of that polk something museum probably would be upset it wasn't original anymore.
It's not a prototype anything. It's a Twelve dollar shotgun from Chicopee Mass.