Posted: 11/9/2008 1:09:33 PM EDT
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hey guys, on my Springfield 1911 you can pull the hammer back just a bit and it will set; or you can cock it all the way back (ready to fire)and set the safety. my question is why is there that first setting?
also how hard is it on the spring/gun if you keep the pistol in the cocked position w/ safety on? |
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It's a fail-safe position.
If, by some catastrophic failure, the sear allows the hammer to fall without the trigger being pulled, the hammer will catch on the half-cock notch, preventing an AD. The hammer should not be kept in half-cock, nor is this a safe position to carry it in. It's simply there to prevent a discharge as a back-up safety mechanism; unless the other safety features have already failed, half-cock shouldn't be coming into play. BTW, S80 hammers lack the half-cock notch. The FP safety can fufill the half-cock's purpose of a failsafe in the event of an unintentional hammer fall. |