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A small game hunting kit. .22lr single-action Heritage revolver with CCI Standard Velocity 40gr LRN ammo. That ‘70s Combloc surplus leather pouch holds 100 rds loose ammo. The small fixed blade knife was a gift from my mom, no clue where she originally got it. I believe it’s 1095 steel.
 
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Holy crap! That's a wicked looking knife.

knivesnknucks said:
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A small game hunting kit. .22lr single-action Heritage revolver with CCI Standard Velocity 40gr LRN ammo. That ‘70s Combloc surplus leather pouch holds 100 rds loose ammo. The small fixed blade knife was a gift from my mom, no clue where she originally got it. I believe it’s 1095 steel.
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Does the Heritage have a hammer-mounted safety?
 
Big boy carry today. Steyr M9-A1 in beltless holster. Well over 1500 rounds through this, one failure, and that was my fault. I hadn't lubed it in a long time and it failed to extract. I put a drop of lube on the extractor and no problems since. I love this gun. I carry my modded Sig P365 most of the time, but today my pants are a bit looser fitting, so upgraded to a bigger gun. Still need to get a holster for my PX4.

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The Heritage’s safety is right beside the hammer, to the left of it. It’s an odd safety system, but it’s extremely simple and easy to use. With the thumb of your shooting hand, you drag the lever down to disengage the safety. It’s a similar motion as cocking the hammer itself.

Here, you see the safety engaged;

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Here, the safety is disengaged:

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Nice! Thanks.
I guess it makes sense to have the hammer down on an empty chamber, then. Yeah, the safety SHOULD prevent an AD.... But never really TRUST a safety.
 
dogboye said:
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I guess it makes sense to have the hammer down on an empty chamber, then. Yeah, the safety SHOULD prevent an AD.... But never really TRUST a safety.
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Yup. On any Single Action Army or clone (such as this Heritage) it’s always a good idea to carry on an empty chamber. Originally, Colt designed the hammer to have a “safety notch” which is still present on almost all SAA clones (you pull the hammer back about half a centimeter, and it clicks into the “safety” position), but within a couple years of sales, sometime in the mid-late 1800s Colt announced that nobody should rely on the safety notch, as the hammer can still fall forward if dropped, resulting in an AD.

The old phrase “load one, skip one, load four” becomes an engrained habit if you spend a lot of time with any SAA type revolver. Puts the hammer over an empty chamber if you load the gun according to that phrase.
 
knivesnknucks said:
Yup. On any Single Action Army or clone (such as this Heritage) it’s always a good idea to carry on an empty chamber. Originally, Colt designed the hammer to have a “safety notch” which is still present on almost all SAA clones (you pull the hammer back about half a centimeter, and it clicks into the “safety” position), but within a couple years of sales, sometime in the mid-late 1800s Colt announced that nobody should rely on the safety notch, as the hammer can still fall forward if dropped, resulting in an AD.

The old phrase “load one, skip one, load four” becomes an engrained habit if you spend a lot of time with any SAA type revolver. Puts the hammer over an empty chamber if you load the gun according to that phrase.
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Yeah, I was aware of the "load one, skip one..." The only SA revolvers I've shot are Ruger New Models, which have the transfer bar that has to be between the hammer and frame-mounted firing pin. I THINK the Old Models were similar to that Heritage, with the hammer directly hitting the firing pin. With those, the pin isn't inertial, just spring loaded. So, if you have the hammer at rest on a cartridge, the pin is actually resting on the primer, and all that is holding the hammer off of full rest, I believe. Whack that hammer, and the cartridge will fire. Then there's the Ubertis. They have some really odd set-up that I think is supposed to let you carry safely hammer-down on a cartridge. I just didn't know how the Heritage SAs work.
 
My grandfather used the same philosophy with the NAA .22mag revolver he pocket carried. It was more deterrant/get to my car for the bigger gun thing anyway.
 
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