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Should You Load Five, Or Should You Load Six? (Single Action Basics) [video only]
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| 9-18-2013
| Hickok45
Posted on 12/18/2013 6:54:28 PM PST by servo1969
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posted on
12/18/2013 6:54:28 PM PST
by
servo1969
To: servo1969
That’s why modern single action guns have a transfer bar.
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posted on
12/18/2013 6:57:50 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: servo1969
Love Hickock45. Best thing on Youtube.
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posted on
12/18/2013 6:57:51 PM PST
by
Thane_Banquo
( Walker 2016)
To: servo1969
I load 5 if I’m carrying, hammer on empty chamber and 6 if I am at the range shooting.
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posted on
12/18/2013 6:59:23 PM PST
by
JamesA
(You don't have to be big to stand tall)
To: JamesA
I load 6. I also carry a modern revolver. If I manage to shoot myself with that, I deserve it.
/johnny
To: servo1969
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:07:01 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: servo1969
Did I shoot five rounds or six? To tell the truth, in all of the excitement, I forgot myself. I guess the question you have to ask yourself is “Do I feel lucky”.
To: NFHale; servo1969
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:07:54 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: JamesA
I load 5 if Im carrying, hammer on empty chamber and 6 if I am at the range shooting.
Common sense and /thread
FRegards
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:08:28 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: servo1969
So, we only load 5 in a 6 round cylinder? What is it was a 5 round clinder? Would load just 4? Is one chamber always meant to be empty?
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:10:21 PM PST
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
To: Farmer Dean
5 if carrying - 6 if on the range- Daddy taught me that.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:11:04 PM PST
by
atc23
(The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
To: atc23
Since it depends on the make and model of the revolver, all of the above advice is worthless.
To: volunbeer
I load 5 if Im carrying, hammer on empty chamber and 6 if I am at the range shooting. Common sense and /thread Frankly, that's silly unless you're carrying a museum piece. Uselessly sacrificing almost twenty percent of your firepower for no legitimate reason is nuts.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:14:32 PM PST
by
papertyger
("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
To: Farmer Dean
If you don’t have one with a transfer bar, load one, skip one then load the other 4. You now have a 5 shot revolver.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:16:17 PM PST
by
rktman
(Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
To: servo1969
I remember reading, years ago, of a man around Tulsa OK who opened his truck door and out fell his old model .44 mag Ruger. It landed on the hammer and Boom. DOA.
I believe it was this incident that caused Ruger to redesign their revolvers and offer a free conversion for the others.
On article at the time said you could load six if you placed the hammer firing pin between two cartridges in the cylinder. I tried this and it did not work with the .45 Colt.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:17:22 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: umgud
The Colt Single Action Army had a bad feature in that if the chamber under the hammer was loaded, the gun could accidentally fire.
Dropping the gun on the hammer or something striking the hammer were things which could cause that.
Early Rugers were the same way but Ruger changed the design some years ago so you can safely carry all chambers loaded. They also would update any of their old models to the safe system and return your original parts for collectors value.
Ruger did that after a shooter was killed with one of their early models. I suppose they were sued.
Most modern single actions have some type of device for keeping the hammer and primer from meeting unless you mean to.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:17:57 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: umgud
we only load 5 in a 6 round cylinder? What is it was a 5 round clinder? Would load just 4? Is one chamber always meant to be empty? That gives me a great idea: revolvers with one blank chamber!
I can sell it to the "hundred years out of date" market!
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:18:21 PM PST
by
papertyger
("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
To: rktman
I only have one single action revolver,a Ruger in .30 carbine.Except for that one,I’m a S&W/HK kind of guy.
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:22:15 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: BipolarBob
My answer to that question...
Taurus 608 .357 Magnum
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:23:12 PM PST
by
digger48
To: yarddog
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posted on
12/18/2013 7:24:05 PM PST
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
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