Thread: Begara BA13 hammer safety question

I double checked, looking at mine tonight. It doesn't use a transfer bar system like the Rossi and H&R single shot, but has a trigger interlock that prevents the hammer going forward enough to hit the firing pin without the trigger being pulled.
So only real risk might be if you hold the trigger in while de-cocking it and it slips, while you still have the trigger pulled. So in theory it might be possible, but I would think so long as you have controlled the hammer for the first (say) half, it won't have enough energy to actually ignite the primer. I haven't tried it though.

But if you treat as loaded (which it is!) and point in a safe direction when you de-cock, then it should be ok? And if you are thinking about that, you will hopefully be concentrating enough not to keep the trigger depressed after starting to de-cock, or letting the hammer fall? I have hunted mostly with a single shot rifle, so I don't think about it much any more, it just happens naturally...