Friday, April 24, 2009
Unforgivin Inaccuracy?
So far there has been a lot of attentionput on the fact that when all the sherifs and their assitants are holding people at gun point they don't have the gun cocked back so they wouldn't be able to fire. Now I don't know a whole lot about guns but so far we have just passed this up as a dramitic effect, but is it possible that there guns are already cocked and they are just recocking them to let their victim know that they are serious. Is this at all possible?
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Once a revolver is cocked, it has to be uncocked in order to cock it again. that can only be done by pulling the trigger and releasing the hammer slowly. The repeating rifle can be recocked also, but that will expel an unshot shell from the chamber out onto the ground and load up another. Notice that the Spenser rifle required two actions. First a working of the crank in order to reload a shell from the magazine into the chamber, then cocking the hammer to facilitate firing. I don't think the Winchester rifle required a separate action to load the chamber and cock the hammer. I think both were done by the crank, though maybe not. Your explanation, though interesting, doesn't work, at lest not based upon my understanding.
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