Safety notches between cylinders?

[OneFreeTexan]

What full size revolvers have them?? Like the NAA small revolvers?

 

[Ohen Cepel]

Can't think of any aside from the NAA's. Different designs for the larger handguns.

 

[Starter52]

Safety notches were popular back in cap-and-ball revolver days. Not much need for them now that transfer bars and other internal safeties are common.

 

[BobWright]

As has been pointed out, the cap-and-ball revolvers did have safety notches, but cartridge revolvers, with some exception, do not.
All modern DA revolvers hammer block safeties or transfer bars. The Single Action Colt lacks such mechanisms and must be carried with an empty with an empty chamber under the hammer.

I believe Elmer Keith had a Colt Single Action made up with an extra set of cylinder notches fo the gun could be carried with the hammer down with the firing pin resting between two cartridges. When carried this way the cylinder locking bolt is resting against the exterior face of the cylinder without this extra pair of notches.

This Colt has the extra set of notches, note one behind and in line with the cylinder flute:

 

[jaguarxk120]

Cap and ball revolvers had safety pins not notches.
The hammer nose has a small slot cut into it and the hammer will rest
on one of those pins preventing the cylinder from turning.
This is what is on my 1860 Colt replica.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I can't think of any that have safety notches between the chambers.

 

[BobWright]

I can't think of any that have safety notches between the chambers.

The Colt I showed has the notch located between the chambers. The customary locking notch is located directly over the chamber.
As to notches on the rear face of the cylinder, Remington cap-and-ball revolvers did indeed have notches. There is a notch located between the nipples on this Remington:



Bob Wright

 

[OneFreeTexan]

Duh,,, of course, it’s the chambers. I should have looked at one of my cap and ball revolvers, it has them too.
thanks for all the prompt answers,,,,,Next time, I will think before I speak...

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

Some of the early 1860 Colts did indeed have extra notches on the cylinder so the hammer could be left down on a fully loaded cylinder and not be resting against a cap.

These are known by collectors as Twelve Stop cylinders.

Here is a photo from R. Bruce McDowell's definitive book on Colt Conversions showing a Richards conversion with a Twelve Stop cylinder. The cylinder in question was reworked from a Colt 1860 Twelve Stop cylinder.





However, I have never seen extra notches on a modern revolver.