revolver sliping the hammer

[sabanknight]

anyone know if gurps has a perk or rules anywhere for "slipping the hammer" on a revolver. Which involves flicking the hammer on the top of a revolver aloting a much quicker rate of fire than 3 rounds a second. anyone able to cite some gurps rules?

[Ragitsu]

Yes. Rules for such a maneuver are in the supplement High-Tech.

[SuedodeuS]

"Slipping the hammer" is Thumbing, which is on HT83. Note this is only useful for a single action revolver, as it increases RoF to 2 (and double action revolvers have RoF 3). The more flamboyant cousin of Thumbing is Fanning (this is probably what OP is thinking of), also on HT83, which can increase RoF all the way to 5 but wrecks hell on your accuracy.

[sabanknight]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Yes. Rules for such a maneuver are in the supplement High-Tech.

Page number for fanning and slipping the hammer is HT 83

Thank you

[Ragitsu]

Best of luck!

[sjard]

Interesting. I'd never heard that term for that action before. I'm used to hearing it as Fanning rather than Slipping.

[SuedodeuS]

Originally Posted by sjard

Interesting. I'd never heard that term for that action before. I'm used to hearing it as Fanning rather than Slipping.

According to High-Tech, the term "slipping the hammer" actually is a term for thumbing. I suspect it's not a very common phrase today - a Google search shows up a lot of instances where slipping is the last word in one sentence and "The hammer" starts the next. I had certainly never heard it before.