handgun hunting

[diesel]

Had a discussion with an indivudal last night about useing a revolver to hunt deer. This indivudal clamed that only a single action revolver was legal because a double action revolver one only needed to pull the trigger for repeat shots so it's not being manually operated. I read the fireams regs. in the Pa. Hunting and Trapping Digist and could not find a distinct defination of the two as to the legally of the DA.

[Chazman321]

All revolvers are legal...


-Chaz

[knight0334]

All revolvers are legal...


-Chaz

Except the Mateba and the Webley-Fosbery


Double Action revolvers are still manually operated. Your finger pulls back on the trigger, manually rotating the cylinder. ...really no different from pulling a hammer back on a Single Action which rotates the cylinder.

[Chazman321]

Never heard of or seen either of those... lol


-Chaz

[knight0334]

Never heard of or seen either of those... lol


-Chaz

I'm full of worthless knowledge..

[Steve in PA]

Had a discussion with an indivudal last night about useing a revolver to hunt deer. This indivudal clamed that only a single action revolver was legal because a double action revolver one only needed to pull the trigger for repeat shots so it's not being manually operated. I read the fireams regs. in the Pa. Hunting and Trapping Digist and could not find a distinct defination of the two as to the legally of the DA.

Single or double action revolvers are allowed. Print this picture and show it to your friend. I took this doe this past hunting season with a "double action" Ruger Super Redhawk.




This is a picture of the first deer I ever took with a handgun. A spike buck (waay back when they were legal to shoot) with the same handgun.

[diesel]

thats what I was thinking, did'nt want to disagree till I checked with you fellas, I figuered you guys would have it right. taken a few deer with a 44 mag Super Blackhawk back when you had to carry with the hammer down on an emty chamber. thanks for the quick come back.

[Steve in PA]

thats what I was thinking, did'nt want to disagree till I checked with you fellas, I figuered you guys would have it right. taken a few deer with a 44 mag Super Blackhawk back when you had to carry with the hammer down on an emty chamber. thanks for the quick come back.

When were you required to carry on an empty chamber?

[Chazman321]

To sum it up:

Double action is allowed
Single action is allowed
No need to carry on an empty chamber
Always listen to Steve, he is 5-0 after all... lol


-Chaz

[Steve in PA]

I've hunted with and/or carried a handgun while hunting for a lot of years, I've never seen a PGC law that says you had to carry on an empty chamber. Why would you?