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For storage, you can lower the strikers,w/o dry firing.Open the gun,take the safety off,pull both triggers,then slowly close the gun. Mike Not with an LC Smith however- Works fine with my LC SLNE. Correct. When you open a Lefever and pull the triggers, the barrels lift up and they were intended to decock that way........ So, I was wondering one day if it would work with a L C. It does, but you have to push down the lever release to pull the triggers unless the auto reset bar has been taken out. Haven't tried it on a boxlock yet; don't know if it would work or not. But, sometimes I decock by placing a piece of wood on the breech face. Some guns with ejectors you may have to push down some so the forearm seats on the knuckle before closing.
Last edited by 2holer; 01/31/13 07:16 PM.
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LC Smith lovers, I stand corrected.There may be others that my suggestion won't work on.With regard to assembling a gun with the hammers down, the hammers can be manually cocked(maybe not a Smith). Sorry for the confusion, I try to avoid ejectors and single triggers (I save my cases). Mike
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An LC can be easily cocked with either a dedicated tool or a Crescent wrench, prior to installing a forend, regardless of extractor/ejector configuration.
If you're in the habit of decocking your LC disassembled or want to be in that habit, having a cocking tool in your kit would make it easy to assemble.
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Hi:
I may be a bit provincial, but I have been using a pencil eraser in a decapped shotgun shell for my snap caps for years.
Just decap the shell, push a pencil eraser into the primer hole and sand the eraser until it is flush with the head of the shell.
These appear to work well for me and the price is right!
I always lube the chamber and snap cap to prevent galvanic action!
Stay well my friends,
Franchi
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So if I boil this down...
there is no need to de-cock guns with coil springs
de-cock leaf spring double guns by disassembling and using a horn block to cushion the pins on release- unless some de-cocking provision has been made during the design of the gun
Do I have it right? Snap caps have always made me nervous anyway- I always took the gun out on to the back stoop to use them! Safe not sorry.
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