BAKER GUNS.
The Baker hammerless guns have two distinct safeties operating independently of each other. They are the safest hammerless y-et made. They cannot be dis charged in any other way than by, pulling the triggers. They, cannot jar off. If the notch or sear breaks, letting the hanuners down, they will not fire the gun be cause of the intervening firing-pin block. The hammerless guns will admit of the barrels being removed front the frame independently of the position of the ham mers. If the gun is cocked it can be taken apart and put together. If the gun is not cocked it can be taken apart and put together again without cocking it. The hammers can be let down with absolute safety without snapping, as in the act of firing, thus relieving the main springs front the tension. In this position the ham mers rest on the firing-pin block safeties, permitting the firing-pin springs to as sume and retain their normal position, and not permitting the points of the firing pin to project beyond the face of the breech, and thus be in contact with the primer, If desired, the hammers can remain cocked without injury, to the main springs. The ease with which these guns can be cocked is one of their desirable points.
The drawing is three-fourths full size and shows the firing-pin block A in posi tion of safety, being between the hammer and back of the frame. 1.11 this position, should the hammer fall, it would strike the block A and rest on it. preventing the hammer from reaching the firing-pin B. Should the sear, or notch break while the firing-pin block A is in this position, or the hammers be jarred out of bent, the solid steel block A would receive the full force of the blow and prevent the hammer from coming in contact with the firing-pin B. C—Cocking lever in the position it will assume while the gun is opened, as in the act of putting, shells into the barrels. D—Triggers, the forward end of which operates the safety A. F— Non-autornatic safety, used to block the triggers. This drawing shows this safety in position, blocking, the triggers so they cannot be pulled off, either accidentally or on purpose. \\Then this safety F is in this position, it renders it impossible to pull the safety A out of position of safety. ,S—Thumb-piece on top of the tang
and which is used to operate the non-automatic safety F. E—Top-lever spring.
The firing-pin block safety is absolutely automatic in its action and will g,,o to the position of safety every time, just as soon as the hammer is raised from the firing-pin far enough to permit it to do so, and will remain in this position of safety until the trigger is pulled to fire the g,un. This automatic safety is always in place at the point of greatest danger on any gun, viz: the firing-pin ; effectually and completely blocking the firing-pin and remaining- so under all conditions until the trig,ger is pulled, at which instant it is removed, permitting the hammer to strike the tiring-pin. These gUll S cannot be discharged CI:ell thouj.,Y11 a sear or notch breaks or wears through long use or neglect, so as to permit it to jar off ; while other hammerless guns not provided with the firing-pin block, will dO so under the above circumstances, even though the triggers are locked by an auto matic safety, and the gun cannot he fired by pulling them. It should lie borne in mind that the safety F operated by the thumb-piece S on top of the tang., is not automatic, and that it does not go to safety when the gun is opened. The firing pin block safety is absolutely automatic in every sense of the word; that is, it goes to the position of safety every time the gun is opened.
The shooting power of the Baker hammerless gun is of a high order. The pat terns are regular and even, yielding averages from the cylinder to the full choke bores that should satisfy the most fastidious shooter. In this respect they sus tain the reputation of the Baker hammer guns that for so many years have found universal favor. The gun has fine lines; it is symmetrical and well-balanced. It is built and fully equipped for continuous service at the trap, on the uplands and for water-fowl shooting. It has great strength of frame, simplicity of action and few working parts, and those all of good size and strength. It has rebounding locks, and no sticking of the firing-pins in the primers.