Single or Double Throated Hammer

[musketman]

Which looks nicer to you, the single or double throated hammer on the flintlock?

Single

Double

I opt for the double, even though I never owned one, they look like a stronger design... (IMO)

 

While a double throated cock is stronger, they're ugly to my eye, especially the large ones on the 1777 Charlevilles and US. muskets after 1795. I much prefer the goose necked cocks, especially on Bess' and long rifles & full stocked Hawkens.
: The double throated cock looks OK on the Harpers ferry rifled musket with it's relatively small lock, however I do prefer the appearance of the 1728 & 1763 style French cock on any of the muskets or heavy(large bore) rifles.

 

[roundball]

It may be because 99.9% of the time I only see single throated hammers but I like their looks the best...the double throated ones with circle or heart shapes just look a little unecessarily cosmetic to me...like putting fox tails and mud flaps on a car.

Don't care too much for inlays, carvings, etchings, etc as they look a little gimmicky to me...I like a rifle to be attractive but only as a plain and simple hunting rifle normally would be ::

 

[musketman]

I think this L&R Lock looks eloquent...

 

[Zonie]

"...like putting fox tails and mud flaps on a car."

Boy Roundball, talk about ageing yourself!
No one puts fox tails and mud flaps on their cars anymore. Now a nice lowered '49 Mercury lead sled with a sun visor and two spotlights on the windshield posts so you can play light tag at the drive in, thats about as cool as it gets.

Oh! Dam'et Mooskeetman, you don't have to poke me in the side of the head!! Cocks! That's what we'er talking about.
Double Throated Cocks!........
I like them on Military guns where they shout "function! Ve Must Have Function! Zee battle depends on Function!!" but not on Sporting guns.

 

[Deadeye]

The double is kinda like a barrel band. Looks good on Military but not on non military. I like the single.

 

[tg]

Some of the 17th century high art French and European guns had the hole below the jaw screw and looked very good but these guns as a whole were more art than gun, they made the Colonial and Golden age builders look like students rather than masters.

 

[TwoShadows]

Gol-dang-it Roundball....I betchew dont like curb feelers ner bugcatchers wif lil propellers on em ner lil bobbin burds in tha winders neither....well, I like single throated cocks bestest too, but then agin, they is a tad more fragile I guess. I betcha didnt like Wildroot Creme Oil on yer flat top hair cut neither....probably used that butch wax or Vitalis!

 

[roundball]

Uhmmmm...as the cops would say, "he only coulda known that if he was there"

I still remember that Wildroot smelled great...Vitalis was horrible! ::

 

[Doc Arroyo]

Have to go for the single. I likes the civilian look. I never have been able to do much military reinacting since I did my tour with the real Army.

 

[Ohio Joe]

Has anyone noticed that the double throat hammer with top jaw screw has the appearance of a weeping heart? Wonder if this has some significance to the lock itself???

 

[connerm]

The guy who worked on my 1803 Harper's Ferry said the double cock design wouldn't allow for any adjusting. He said that the single design allowed for some tweaking. Made sense to me.