Hold the trigger group of any auto and try to cock the hammer using your pinky. It is doable in almost all autos and pumps.
Now compare that tension with the V or coil springs in any break open gun and the inevitable question is why so much stifness.
The auto hammer has to overcome a heavy, usually spring loaded firing pin, and it does it reliably, the break open springs move less mass, yet it is incompressible by hand.
Can the gunsmith posters enlighten us on this spring strength difference?
Last edited by Shotgunlover; 11/15/15 03:04 AM.
