Is a GP100 not supposed to have a half cock

[flip180]

Hello, I realized that my new GP100 doesn't have a half cock. I can rotate the cylinder if I pull the hammer back part ways, but it won't lock in a ahlf cock postion. I can't find any where in the owner's manual about it even having a half cock position. Is that right? I'd hate for this brand new gun to be broken.

Robert.

 

[Majic]

The half cock is a feature of a single action. Double action revolvers don't have that feature.

 

[tiberius]

Ruger SA's don't even have a half cock anymore. Your GP sounds like its doing what it is supposed to.

 

[flip180]

Thanks everyone.

Robert.

 

[Jim March]

Right, with a DA revolver, when the cylinder is closed it's kind of a pain to spin the cylinder.

You CAN do it - you have to spin it one cylinder bore at a time while "jiggling" the hammer, and maintaining STRICT finger-off-trigger and safe muzzle direction drills. It's not all THAT unsafe, but it's tricky.

It's necessary for those folk who keep one or two rounds of a given type as "first at bat" and then follow with something else.

 

[TallPine]

It's not all THAT unsafe, but it's tricky.

I don't find it tricky at all ...

I just hold the hammer back about halfway (finger off trigger, of course - what would it be doing there anyway?) and the cylinder can be rotated freely with the left hand just as if it were a SA at half cock.

I do this a lot in the summertime, when I carry one round of snakeshot. I want the snakeshot to be the next one up when I am outside walking around, but at night I want a solid to be the first in line. (snakeshot under the hammer so it is last) The CCI snakeshot is an aluminum case, the head of which is clearly distinguishable from the brass cases in the gap between the cylinder and the whatever it is called that sticks out on each side behind the cylinder. ("flash guard" ...? anyway, on a Ruger it is a big hunk of steel instead of a thin plate as on Colt and S&W)

Incidentally, that .38 snakeshot takes the fizz out of a rattler, but doesn't necessarily kill them right away.