Decockers

[Oh Shoot]

With the Beretta 92, you can hold back on hammer, and watch the decocker move the bar to rotate firing pin plunger out of the picture before releasing it if you like.

 

I suppose most all of the ones mentioned are similar?

 

- OS

[Patton]

The thing about decockers is, you dont have to use them. Ive never seen a decocker on a Ruger or S&W double action revolver and they dont seem to have major issues with it. What is so wrong with finger on the trigger and thumb on the hammer and slowly lowering the hammer?

My father almost shot me when I was a child utilizing the method of riding the hammer forward. My mom thought someone was outside and cocked the hammer back on a revolver. When my dad got home he didn't know I was on the other side of the wall when he was trying to ride the hammer down. His sweaty hands caused his thumbs to slip and the gun fired. The round couldn't have come more than 1 ft from me.

[2.ooohhh]

My father almost shot me when I was a child utilizing the method of riding the hammer forward. My mom thought someone was outside and cocked the hammer back on a revolver. When my dad got home he didn't know I was on the other side of the wall when he was trying to ride the hammer down. His sweaty hands caused his thumbs to slip and the gun fired. The round couldn't have come more than 1 ft from me.

I've had a bullet bucket in the house as long as I can remember to point firearms into when checking function/decocking/pulling triggers for takedown. My first was gramps old metal bucket filled with sand, gravel,and steel. The new one I built a few years ago is filled with a 3/8" steel plate at the bottom covered with a full bag of rubber mulch that I compressed by vibrating it to pack it in with an air hammer. Tested one in the backyard and it'll stop everything I carry dead cold. I wouldn't want to use it as a long term backstop but for making a safe direction to point a firearm in a workspace or next to a nightstand it's hard to beat, luckily I've never had a round discharged into one while it was in the house. . .yet.

Edited February 11, 2013 by 2.ooohhh