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I'm even uncomfortable asking this...but how does one uncock a Browning Buckmark? I brought up the manual and squinted through every page. They carefully tell you how to cock the gun, and it seems obvious that every time you retract the slide and let it go forward you've cocked the hammer. Is there no way to uncock the gun? Wouldn't holding the breech open, depressing the trigger and easing the breech closed un-cock the gun?
Allan

abutt1 wrote:how does one UNcock a Browning Buckmark?

1. aim the barrel up to the ceiling
2. pull the trigger
3. remove the Magazine
4. the trigger is now: UNcocked
5. oh, wait, it just RE-cocked itself... Dang "semi-auto"

oops... I may have that in a wrong order
---***... Just Kidding... ***---

maybe this would be better:
1. remove the Magazine
2. open the slide and THOROUGHLY inspect to be EMPTY
3. aim the barrel in a "safe" direction (couch, bookcase, DownRange)
4. pull the trigger to release the hammer-spring

I have some of those little Orange-Plastic-Fake-Bullets
and I manually place one of those into the chamber and
have NO-Mag inserted into my pistol... and leave the
Hammer-Spring cocked then put the safety ON and
put the pistol away in its 'safe place'....

Enjoying your humor. What shakes me is that in a previous post I asked about dry-firing a Buckmark -- which seems to be a no-no. I thought leaving a hammer cocked all the time was unnecessary wear on the hammer spring. I think I'm confusing myself.
Sold my 10" Schmidt a couple of years ago because of poor viewing. Recently moved to our new home with horizon to horizon viewing at 1500' altitude and no street lights. But if I pick up a new scope and some guns my wife of 53 years would quickly terminate the relationship.
Boys and their toys...But back to uncocking the Buckmark.

abutt1 wrote:Enjoying your humor. What shakes me is that in a previous post I asked about dry-firing a Buckmark -- which seems to be a no-no. I thought leaving a hammer cocked all the time was unnecessary wear on the hammer spring. I think I'm confusing myself.

It's my general understanding that the various "springs" do not lose their
springiness by staying compressed/tensioned... it is the flex/use that
will eventually wear... albeit slowly... my original-Ctr-FireArm (Colt acp)
has had the Mags loaded for over 25 years... ready and waiting...
never a problem that I've noticed...

Sold my 10" Schmidt a couple of years ago because of poor viewing. Recently moved to our new home with horizon to horizon viewing at 1500' altitude and no street lights. But if I pick up a new scope and some guns my wife of 53 years would quickly terminate the relationship.
Boys and their toys...

Trading your Schmidt-Cass is unfortunate timing...
but the nice views are the Messier's, those Herschel-Objects
are just an imaginary smudge on the eyepiece anyway...

But back to uncocking the Buckmark.

you UNcock your Lever-Rifle by holding-back the External-Hammer
with your thumb... same with your Revolver...
but your "pistol" has an internal-hammer...
you don't UNcock it, you Dry-Fire it... ( SAFELY )...