Pedersoli SXS questions

[davidjpoynter]

Happy Veterans Day!

I am in the process of working up loads for my new to me Pedersoli 12 gauge sxs. I noticed that if one of the hammers is in half **** the opposite trigger has an excessive pull weight. Is this a purpose design? Also, I read in the owner's manual that it isn't recommended to place both hammers in the half **** position. Why? How does one hunt with this shotgun safely? I did a search within the forum, without success, for an old post on this. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Lorne Johnson]

Happy Veterans Day!

I am in the process of working up loads for my new to me Pedersoli 12 gauge sxs. I noticed that if one of the hammers is in half **** the opposite trigger has an excessive pull weight. Is this a purpose design? Also, I read in the owner's manual that it isn't recommended to place both hammers in the half **** position. Why? How does one hunt with this shotgun safely? I did a search within the forum, without success, for an old post on this. Any help would be appreciated.

I hunt with both hammers half cocked all the time, it's the safest position as they can't discharge from there, and also quicker to full ****. Do they explain the reasoning for this?

I have no experience with opposite trigger pulls being hard, but it has appeared on a thread here. (My newest Pedersoli was built in 2006, so it could be a new wrinkle).

 

[Britsmoothy]

I hunt with mine hammers down, that way percussion can take place at all.
Look at the picture.


Your heavy trigger is a fault but easy to fix. Determine which lock is heavy, remove the lock and grind or file some of the lever down that the trigger actuates, it is clashing with the other lock.
The half cocks can fail by the way causing an accident, hence the recommendation NOT to rely on them!

B.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Ditto. :applause: I have a Pedersoli SxS in 20 gauge, and the British Gentleman is correct.

LD

 

[Homesteader]

This may be an odd way to handle things, but: My SxS 12 gauge would pepper my arms with debris from the caps, so I added those little shields to keep that from happening. That's when I discovered I could place a heavy cardboard disc (shotgun wad or card) over the shields and lower the hammer onto them. When I **** they fall off and leave it free to fire.

I've since replaced the cardboard with leather covered metal discs. Works for me.

 

[Lorne Johnson]

"The half cocks can fail by the way causing an accident, hence the recommendation NOT to rely on them!"

It is an interesting recommendation. A blow to an uncocked hammer, such as a fall or a dropped gun might produce, can also cause an accident. The half **** position, with its locking groove was developed specifically to prevent such a discharge. Devotees of British hammer guns have maintained for generations that hammer guns are the safest of all guns for that reason, and especially safer than self-cocking internal hammer guns (intercepting sears were developed for that reason).

Of course there are questions about the necessity of intercepting sears, and people's faith in the half **** position and safeties should be limited. But it is an interesting set of questions.

 

[robinsroost]

I agree with Brit Smoothie and Loyalist Dave. I have a 20ga SBS and I have mitigated that situation by tying a small square of inner tube rubber to a cord, that is fastened to the trigger guard. I place the square over the cap and nipple then lower the hammer on the square. It falls to the side when I **** the hammer.....Robin :wink:

 

[Britsmoothy]

If the gun falls and is on half **** and the hammer itself is subject to percussion the half **** can fail then allowing the main spring to drive the hammer into the cap.
Now if the same thing happens hammer down on leather and cap there is no percussion.
This is my logic but I am not the first!

B :thumbsup:

 

[Lorne Johnson]

Thank you.