Transfer Bar Safety?

[4thHorseman]

Just to throw another monkey wrench into the soup, Colt's Magnum Carry and similiar models, don't have a rebound spring at all. Interesting enough, the hammer rests on the frame. After the trigger is pulled and the gun has been fired, when the trigger is released the transfer bar moves down out of the way, the hammer does not come back. In fact, it is a free floating firing pin that is not held down (through the frame) when the trigger is pulled. It is much different from my other Colts and S&W.

 

[James K]

Hi, Mike,

You are correct, of course. The S&W hammer block operates off the rebound slide. Some people look at the mechanism from outside and think the hammer block forces the hammer back, and I was trying to say, in a confused way, that that is not the case.

Jim