live bird gun

[MarketHunter]

I'd say there's somebody out there that would be happy to trade you a decent 20 gauge with a safety for yours. My guess is you've already got some PM's.

DLH

[Harry Collins]

Drew,

I do not have access to the little 20 gauge as it is in the custody of my dear friends son. He said he would get it to me a month ago to look at and if and when I see it again I will take pictures inside and out.

Harry

[Dale Zywina]

I carry my 1911 era DHE straight grip no saftey Parker cracked open when going partridge hunting with an companion, but alone I keep it shut, just like my farther taught me ,there is only one saftey thats your brain!! I wish mine was a 20 gauge as that would make a perfect all season shotgun for partridge, good luck but please do not defame that peice of history, Dale in Canada

[ch]

I was hunting by myself (well bojack was with me my blue heeler) with my hammer gun hammers cocked had it pointed abought 10 oclock finger across trigger guard(i believe Dean told me that)in some tall thick fireweeds ran into some sheepwire legs stopped body didn't put gun butt down to keep from falling don't think it was pointed at my head but they could of been. just looked up and said thanks for the lesson. Watch the ground also, in new places. One can never be to careful. ch

[Bill Murphy]

Shooting myself with a bird gun is the absolute least of my worries when hunting. However, when hunting with others, I would treat a safetyless pigeon gun just like I do a cocked hammer gun. I would carry it open and loaded. True, it is difficult in heavy high brush, but you do what you have to do.

[Blind Dog]

Drew, Here are some pics of the 2 screw SST on my VHE 20. I hope this works; either I have forgoten the proceedure, or the rules have changed.

[Austin W Hogan]

Learn to cock the left hammer first. A hammer gun can be carried hammers down and the left hammer cocked on the mount as fast as a safety can be released. The rear trigger first allows the right hammer to be cocked as the hand moves forward for the front trigger.

Best, Austin

[Harry Collins]

Like Austin, I too carry hammers down. I started shooting a hammer gun while in Italy in 1972. I shot alot of skeet 400 to 500 shells a week. With a down gun by Internationa Rules stock tuching the hip and butt rearward of my elbow I would cock the right hammer on the way to my shoulder for the first clay and drop the gun down to cock the left hammer for the second shot. Granted I was not that good at it, but typical score was around 96 out of 100.
Alot of the people I shoot sporting clays with have their safety off all the time. I suspect that if they practice shooting that way their safetys are off when afield. Same as having hammers cocked you just can't tell.

Harry

[Dean Romig]

If you hunt with hammers down you must be hunting pheasants or chukars or be hunting pretty open cover. If I hunted with hammers down in the thick cover of gnarly old apples, maple whips, thornapple and spruce where I hunt I would rarely get a shot off and if I was lucky enough to shoot it would likely be where the grouse was - not where he is about to be....

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

if I was lucky enough to shoot it would likely be where the grouse was - not where he is about to be....

Kind of like sporting clays yes?

Sorry buddy, couldn’t resist.