Done properly it will make the lock work as it should. Like anything else, if done improperly it could make it dangerous, or non-functional.
Hammer gets stuck on the half cock: diagnosis?
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No I am not the half cock notch was very deep to start with. Many of the cheaper early guns had no half cock notch. As it is now I can put the gun in half cock and hang the weight of the gun off my finger and it will not move. This is a common safety check for reanactors. As a master machinist and a tool maker when I reduce the depth of something I am talking about thousands of an inch at a time
Thinking as @flconch53 is planning on taking a little bit of metal off the tumbler at the half cock notch to reduce the circumference of the tumbler thus reducing the depth of the half cock notch. With a small reduction of the tumbler at the half cock notch, a seat if it is riding on the tumbler will clear the half cock notch as the tumbler rotates through the firing cycle.
