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Switch over to "How To Open a Gun" and hijack the thread.. Should you push the lever and just let the barrels drop and bottom out or should you hold the barrels and just ease them down.. MDC
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Should you push the lever and just let the barrels drop and bottom out or should you hold the barrels and just ease them down.. don`t matter, cause if it does this its time to buy a new one  
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By means of the check hook & pin, no care need be used in opening our gun to insert shells, as all strain is taken off the joint or hinge by the check hook engaging the pin; on the contrary, the gun ""should"" be thrown open ""hard"", as this will insure the cocking of both hammers. (quotes mine) Lefever Arms Co catalog 1889; 1892 & 1913 catalogs say the gun "Can" be thrown open with one hand with no fear of harm, but do not use the term "Should". This should be good for another 13 pages or so  :p Miller
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I can't wait to see where this one goes! Now do you just swing your car door open or do you slowly open it with the button depressed?
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I know. This is so neat. Pretty soon I'll be screaming- WHO DEY? WHO DEY?
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Yes yes yes, but what about those of us who prefer to open and close our guns with one hand???
You know, jolting it open with the right hand while the other reaches for cartridges, and then swinging the barrels up to slam the thing shut!!! Looks good, frightens the opposition, and got to make sure that bolt engages proper - and a jolly good slam is the only way...
tongue in cheaky cheek of course!
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Originally posted by 2-piper: By means of the check hook & pin, no care need be used in opening our gun to insert shells, as all strain is taken off the joint or hinge by the check hook engaging the pin; on the contrary, the gun ""should"" be thrown open ""hard"", as this will insure the cocking of both hammers. (quotes mine)
This should be good for another 13 pages or so :p
Miller Those cOwboys might know something ?
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Beretta O/U's release the lever when a small button in the breech face is touched by the flat end of the top barrel. The gun is about completely closed when the lever trips, so it does not drag the locking pins over the breech. Holding the top lever, closing the gun, and releasing the lever quickly would do about the same thing as letting it snap. Easing would be different, and I too have suspected it might not be locked sufficiently when eased.
I tend to ease when just looking at a gun and let it snap if it is going to be fired. Some new guns are so stiff they are hard to close w/o snapping.
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That is true, Jim. Some of my Model 21s are still so tight that by looking at the lever you can tell that they aren't closed. Then you have no choice. When my Berettas were new, they were hard to close. That is why I went to the smiths and reps directly at the Grand American. A new gun loosens up after a while though. But when you release the lever if you do it the way Dez Young did it on last week's show, you shouldn't have any problems. He is so fast, sometimes you don't catch how he does it. I close mine a little slower and a little more pronounced. By coincidence, the American Rifleman show with Larry Potterfield, founder and owner of Midway USA was on again today and showed the proper way to open and close a double. The show should be on again Saturday at 9:30 pm on OLN.
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