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Most shotgun hammers have a raised ridge across them, just behind the striker face & on top of the hammer.
I never have been able to find out what the purpose of this ridge is.
Is it a hang over from percussion cap hammers ?
Percussion hammers, however, enclose the cap so that pieces don't fly back into your face.
I thought this ridge may be to deflect upward any pierced primer gas that may escape past the striker.
Can anyone enlighten me please ?
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O.M., you are right that the little ridge is a carryover from the muzzleloader days. I do not know of any practical purpose for them so they were most likely something that was just carried over by tradition. Certainly the highly carved snails surrounding strikers grew out of muzzleloaders where they served to deflect shrapnel from an exploding cap. Tradition and attractiveness carried the snail through the entire era of hammer breechloaders.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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I do like the aesthetic architecture it provides.
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I suspect that moses is correct about the intended purpose being to deflect upward [or forward w/the hammer down] any escaping gas. For perhaps a definitive answer, an inquiry to an arms museum's curator w/picture and added arrow [since I know of no official term for that feature] may produce the best answer. There may be terminology for that feature as well, I've just never heard it.
Joe, I've always heard those highly carved snails referred to as fences, but I may be misreading what is being spoken of.
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Shell fences is what I know them as, if they're what I'm thinking of
Not sure what the name of the little ridge on top of the hammer nose might be called; I suspect they serve no functional purpose - the hammer itself would disrupt and deflect any gas flow. I imagine they're a vestigial percussion thing.
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[since I know of no official term for that feature] Yes there seems to be no name for that little ridge that I have ever known or can find mention of. It is almost a ghost. Given time I expect that someone will tell us the whole story. If not, I hereby claim naming rights. O.M
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I thought the lovely scooped out fences were called Percussion Fences.
They are very lovely, usually used on a nice gun too...
I find the look of a Hammer gun with those fences,nice hammers, & the wider top tang of a Jones u/l mesmerizing
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