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This, I suppose, is a technical question.
Scenario: I'm hunting grouse. I have a 12 ga. Navy Arms SXS. The dog goes on point. I approach, cocking the right barrel hammer as I do.
What about the left barrel? Do you cock both at the same time? Or do you cock again if a second shot is needed (kinda loses the grouse most of the time).
Part of me feels uneasy with both hammers back - why I don't know since my "modern" SXSs are cocked and ready on approach - and another part of me feels that if done one at a time, I have two single shots and a lost bird.
It isn't a big issue since, where I hunt, more often than not one shot is all a hunter gets regardless of the firearm.
Pete
Scenario: I'm hunting grouse. I have a 12 ga. Navy Arms SXS. The dog goes on point. I approach, cocking the right barrel hammer as I do.
What about the left barrel? Do you cock both at the same time? Or do you cock again if a second shot is needed (kinda loses the grouse most of the time).
Part of me feels uneasy with both hammers back - why I don't know since my "modern" SXSs are cocked and ready on approach - and another part of me feels that if done one at a time, I have two single shots and a lost bird.
It isn't a big issue since, where I hunt, more often than not one shot is all a hunter gets regardless of the firearm.
Pete