Really stupid question

[handi243]

My dad has a contender frame that i maybe getting is there anyway to fix it were you don't have to open the action every time you cock the hammer?

[coopershooter]

nope! the new g-2 frame fixes that.

[Davemuzz]

Send the frame to my FFL and you will never have to open it again. 


Dave

[skarke]

what davemuzz said, except use mine 

[HHI-7420]

You really don't have to open the action every time you want to cock the hammer. Hold the action closed and just pull back on the trigger guard like you're going to open it, but don't. Then cock the hammer.   Pat

[offhand35]

You should also note that in the Contender manual from T/C, one of the methods of decocking  is to move the hammer nose out of battery, hold onto the hammer with a thumb and let it down  while pulling on the trigger guard as if you were to open the action, but you don't. The action is then ready to recock for another try at a shot.

[swampthing]

I pretty sure that T/C has an "easy open" option that resolves that issue.

[Davemuzz]

I dunno, if I have to de-cock the hammer, I do. Then I just open the barrel and close it again. I've not been in a situation where it's been an issue.

Dave.

[Keith L]

The easy open improvement did not remove the requirement to open the breech when re-cocking.  That improvement happened with the G2 redesign.  I wasn't troubled with the old way, and don't see this as a big change.  I have and like both models.

[Jim Stacy]

Don't dry fire your TC by cocking the hammer and pulling the trigger . The hammer falling on the frame with no resistance will peen the frame and make one of the firing pins stick forward and potentially set off a round as you close the action. Did that myself and set off a 30 Herrett . No one was hurt but it was a very exciting experience for me and people around me.

[ourway77]

There are no stupid questions, I would rather have them laugh at me, rather than cry at my funeral.

[handi243]

Well it may not have been such a stupid question i think he's going to let me get it. I keep asking him about it he told me to keep it in my safe 14" 44mag with a m8 leupold scope can't wait to shoot it. Went to a friend pawn shop today he has some contender barrels he told me that some guy made the YEARS ago. they look kind of crude he had 3 of them 357 mag, 22 hornet, 45acp for 100.00 each.

[Davemuzz]

There are no stupid questions, I would rather have them laugh at me, rather than cry at my funeral.

I'll second that statement.

Dave

[HHI-7420]

I'm really puzzled. Did most everyone miss out on what the original poster is really asking? Have you ever been in the woods and went to cock the hammer and found that you had tripped the trigger when you went to cock the hammer and it wouldn't stay back? See my above post. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.  Pat

[Keith L]

I read the questioner asking if the gun could be modified to not have to have the action opened.  The answer is no, it can't.  Most of us know how the guns work and what we have to do to make them fire, and that was shared with Handi243.  You included your knowledge to that thread.  What was missed?