newfrontier45
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Uh, the OP mentioned the Ruger transfer bar. 
I didn't make a general statement about hammer blocks. My comments about the hammer block are in regards to the Schofield replicas. I didn't know I had to specify that my comments were specific to the Schofield in a thread asking about Schofields. You guys are the ones confusing the matter with irrelevant talk about S&W DA's. Like I've said several times now, on the Uberti Schofields and Russians, when the hammer is all the way down, the firing pin will contact the primer and it WILL discharge if dropped on the hammer. The hammer block is only there to prevent discharge if a cocked Schofield is dropped. It ain't for carrying it six up.
Newsflash, it's 2013 and people still actually USE designs from the 19th century. I just finished making a new holster for my Schofield. For what? For carrying it loaded. Won't do me much good if it ain't loaded. I shouldn't have to explain that A LOT of people use Colt SAA's (and replicas), leverguns and even muzzleloaders (gasp!) and carry them loaded. I haven't hunted with a cartridge gun in five years.
If you're suggesting that carrying a Schofield replica with a fully loaded cylinder due to a cheesy safety mechanism like Uberti's hammer doohickey, you're the only one.
IMHO, there's been a whole lot of unnecessary noise in this thread.
I didn't make a general statement about hammer blocks. My comments about the hammer block are in regards to the Schofield replicas. I didn't know I had to specify that my comments were specific to the Schofield in a thread asking about Schofields. You guys are the ones confusing the matter with irrelevant talk about S&W DA's. Like I've said several times now, on the Uberti Schofields and Russians, when the hammer is all the way down, the firing pin will contact the primer and it WILL discharge if dropped on the hammer. The hammer block is only there to prevent discharge if a cocked Schofield is dropped. It ain't for carrying it six up.
Newsflash, it's 2013 and people still actually USE designs from the 19th century. I just finished making a new holster for my Schofield. For what? For carrying it loaded. Won't do me much good if it ain't loaded. I shouldn't have to explain that A LOT of people use Colt SAA's (and replicas), leverguns and even muzzleloaders (gasp!) and carry them loaded. I haven't hunted with a cartridge gun in five years.
If you're suggesting that carrying a Schofield replica with a fully loaded cylinder due to a cheesy safety mechanism like Uberti's hammer doohickey, you're the only one.
IMHO, there's been a whole lot of unnecessary noise in this thread.
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