I have owned and shot the 240. I never could cock both hammers at one time unless I used two thumbs, one on top of the other. With a little practice, cocking one hammer at a time worked well. By the way, knowing the price of having the chokes professionally relieved, I rooting through my machinist's cabinet until I found a drill that did a very clean job of making an improved cylinder choke, from the muzzle. By the way, the poster who described the 240 as "not a Stevens" is not correct.