I recently bought a 336T in 30-30. I think it dates to around the early 90's. I am not that familiar with level action rifles and I would like to cover a few of the basics.
I believe I am right in thinking that the "half-cock" hammer feature is the only safety on this rifle? At half cock the trigger is locked and it will not fire.
So the way this works is that I load it, and when I chamber the first round, the hammer is automatically at "full-cock". If I intend to fire, I pull the trigger. However, if I want a round in the chamber, but I do not intend to fire, I would carefully lower the hammer to the half-cock position?
Do I have this right?