Originally Posted by Mannlicher
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
I intend to have the hammer spur lopped off of mine, but see no advantage in going the extra step of converting the action to DAO. Is there any advantage to this? Does it allow for an even smoother double action or something? What's the upside?


I feel the action is smoother, and if nothing else, it pretty much forces you to concentrate on double action shooting. For a close in combat revolver, thats the way I want to train.
For me, a three inch fixed sight revolver is not ever going to be used for metallic silhouette, so why do I need a hammer and the ability to shoot single action?
The only revolvers that I ever do much single action shooting with are the big N-Frames, because I see them as primarily hunting arms, with the added ability to fire double action in case of emergency. Anything smaller I view in just the opposite way, i.e., primarily intended to be fired double action, but capable of single action fire for the rare case where longer range precision work is called for.