Pakrat wrote:
Anyone else lower the hammer and have any accidents?
Yes and no. Hunting with a pistol, a couple of years ago, I cocked the hammer when I thought that there was a deer moving through the brush -- the gun, of course, was pointed in a safe direction.
I was, to say the least, a little excited, and went through the whole mantra of "be sure of your target and what is beyond," and all. I'm not shooting at sounds, or at the first thing that happens to crash through the brush, after all, without carefully identifying it as a deer (in this case, that would have been all I needed, as I had a doe or buck tag).
It came closer, and I started to get excited. If you've been there, you know what I mean, and I caught sight of it, just off the trail, but still mostly concealed and at a bad angle, and waited, motionless.
The deer moved away, and when I tried to lower the hammer, my finger slipped, and I had a very unintentional bang. No damage, of course, except to my ego.
Accident? Well, yes and no: I was aware that, adrenaline pumping, I might have trouble lowering the hammer, and took the obvious precaution (the same one I would have taken if the adrenaline wasn't pumping).