You can’t fan the hammer without having a finger depressing the trigger.
Try it sometime on a single action pistol. Hammer goes back, locks on sear and can’t go forward until trigger is depressed or pulled by the finger.
Fanning the hammer requires finger on the trigger.
Unless the hammer is accidentally released just before locking.
Happened to me a tad more than 60 years ago, with a then-old single barrel 12 ga hammer gun. Thumb slipped while bringing it up to shoot a squirrel in a tree.
Scarred the crap out of me and the squirrel.
what if you only fan it half way will it hit the primer hard enough to go off
But it takes minimal trigger pressure, right? I was looking for ways he could have fired the gun without completely depressing the trigger.
I have never fanned a trigger but the trigger can be slightly depressed (not enough to fire) and then the hammer can be fanned, is that correct?
Thanks.