If all of these guns were meant to be fired double action, why did Colt come up with the beavertail hammer? Or, why even put a spur on the hammer at all?
Bob Wright
I don't know.
I would be perfectly happy if they had all had Bobbed Hammers or concealed Hammers with no Spur.
I used to shoot fifty yard competitions, always using DA with Revolver, and one Hand, and, I did pretty much just as well as the top guys who fired theirs Single Action using two Hands.
All it is, is that one 'feels' the cycle and learns the progression or phases of the Mechanism cycle, so one knows when the Hammer will fall, and if need be, one pauses ever so slightly in one's Trigger pull, to finalize the Sight Picture, for the Hammer to fall 'then'.
So simple!
So elegant!
No shifting, no ungainly Cocking of the Hammer with a second Hand or anything else, no squirmy hassles with the Hands or having to assume undignified postures in order to use both Hands, etc.
Shoot one Handed, and in DA, and all is then the Ideal in every way...all through.
I know of no instance in which a DA Revolver would be better fired in SA mode...other than that it is in some way 'psychological' and or is there for those who have not learned to use the Revolver properly in DA.
Learn to use the DA Revolver properly, ( ie: firing in 'DA' ) and, one never goes back to SA...unless maybe for a moment of novelty or amusement.
After all, the last 'moment' before the Hammer falls, in DA, is identical to how things are in SA mode - the only difference is, in how one gets there, gets to that 'moment'.
So, anyone used to SA with a DA Revolver, may merely think about how they get there, and, learn to get there by knowing and feeling where the phase of Trigger pull is, in which the Hammer is JUST about to fall...
"Perfect"!