Cowtown Cop has a 3-part piece on bobbing the hammer off a snub nose revolver.
Excellent pictures and step-by-step instructions. Nice job!
As you readers know, I’ve been searching for a snubby to call my very own. As I’ve looked at everything that’s available in the world of snubs (that I’d be willing to shoot, vs. collector pieces), I want a few simple things:
- All steel frame, because shooting these things isn’t fun to begin with. I want to practice with it, and having a gun that’s no fun to shoot isn’t conducive to practicing with it.
- “Hammerless” design, preferring the “Centennial” style.
There are other things I’d like, but I’m finding the market doesn’t want to put those two things together. Every store I go into (even pawn shops), if it’s hammerless it’s a lightweight model (think S&W 642, 340, 442) or if it’s steel it’s got an exposed hammer with a spur. Yes some things exist like a S&W 640, but being chambered in .357 Magnum it’s likely to be a little bit wider and harder to conceal than say a steel-framed chambered for .38 Spc +P. I say “likely” because I don’t know for sure since I can’t find a single store that has one in stock! But everyone has 642’s.
*sigh*
So, it may wind up that I go the route Cowtown Cop shows here: getting the gun that’s what I want in most every way, then doing a mod job so it’s suitable for pocket carry. IMHO that’s still not ideal. For instance, if fired from within a pocket I could envision cloth moving in front of the pulled-back hammer and blocking a successful strike (thus the “Bodyguard” frame style that shrouds the hammer).
The quest continues.
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