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Offline wreckhog

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How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« on: December 30, 2009, 02:58:27 PM »
Basically a post 64 Winchester 94 carbine in 30-30 with a different forend. Seems new and unfired. No safety, has a half cock position, lever is slightly stiff. Serial number does not match published Winchester serial numbers.
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Re: How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 04:53:47 PM »
To me the term "rebounding hammer" means that when them trigger is pulled, the hammer falls and then returns back a little way to a safe position. You cannot push the hammer forward far enough to cause the fireing pin to protrude from the breech face.
In other words, a rebounding hammer is an automatic half cock. I've never seen a Marlin with a rebounding hammer. You have to set the half cock safety yourself.
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Re: How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2009, 03:56:01 AM »
I don't think they made the Ted Williams model late enough to find one with a rebounding hammer, but I may be wrong. Those were pretty common back in the 1960's and early '70's, but I don't know as they continued making them into the Winchester angle-eject era, when the rebounding hammers started coming out.  Somebody chime in on this--I'm kind of curious as to how long that Ted Williams version was produced.
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Re: How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 03:29:27 PM »
If it was a rebounding hammer it would not have a half-cock safety position
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Re: How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 03:34:33 PM »
wreckhog
  I know your pain about finding anything on the Ted Williams guns -other than Winchester made them! I helped my brother pick up a lever and it turned out to be a TW! I only handled it for awhile but I don't think it was a rebound hammered gun!  It wasn't an AE either! If yours is a rebound hammer I think you'd also have a CB safety! As my 94 AE Win has it! ;D
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Re: How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2010, 02:28:35 AM »
Quote from: 454Puma on January 12, 2010, 03:34:33 PM
wreckhog
  I know your pain about finding anything on the Ted Williams guns -other than Winchester made them! I helped my brother pick up a lever and it turned out to be a TW! I only handled it for awhile but I don't think it was a rebound hammered gun!  It wasn't an AE either! If yours is a rebound hammer I think you'd also have a CB safety! As my 94 AE Win has it! ;D

I have a trapper 44 mag, bought new in the mid-80's.  No CB or tang safety, but definitely a rebounding hammer gun.  I've owned many Winchesters since I started shooting leverguns in 1958 and know when something has a half-cock or not, and I do remember the TW's, but don't know when they quit making them.  When I worked for Winchester in New Haven in 1969-1971, there were plenty of them, row after row, in racks throughout the assembly areas. You could tell them at a glance because the magazine tube is an inch or so shorter than the other M94 variants being made at the time.  That was before angle eject was born.  I don't know when they quit with the TW guns but have never seen one other than the late '60's-early '70's variants.
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Re: How do I tell if my post 64 Sears Ted Williams 100 has a rebounding hammer?
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 08:54:46 AM »
Basically to find if your rifle has a rebounding hammer look at it and see if it is resting on the locking wedge.  IF not pull the trigger, and push on the hammer.  If it moves forward it is a rebounding one.  That said if you rifle has a half cock it is not a rebounding hammer model.
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