Willing "fanning" the hammer cause parts to wear out quickly in my Vaquero?

[Jim March]

Hammer Slipping is a different thing, not nearly as crazy or hard on the gun or hard to learn .

That's where you hold the trigger back, and crank off rounds by thumbing the hammer. It's sort of a "DA stroke with the thumb on an SA revolver"...and SASS/CAS allows it.

 

[James K]

Hammer slipping (or "slip hammering") with a regular SA hammer is not too easy. The old timers who used that method had the hammer spur modified to lower and shorten it, then they tied the trigger back and used slip hammering exclusively. In use, the thumb slips off the side of the hammer spur, not off the end.

Both fanning and slip hammering were techniques adopted to make up for technologic deficiency; we now have a better way, called double action.

Jim