Try to pull it back. DO NOT LET IT SLIP OUT OF YOUR CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!! If it doesn't move, take it to a gunsmith.
by pulling the hammer back.
You must take it to a gunsmith.
To cock a gun means to load it sort of. Like, when you hear guns go like -chk chk-. When you cock a gun, you are placing the hammer in a position to fire the weapon.
We may have a failure to communicate. Almost ALL .22s are rifles, not shotguns (there ARE a very few .22 shotguns, but are quite scarce) And Marlin made several dozen different model .22 rifles. Which model? Bolt action, lever action, semi auto, pump? My Marlin 39A rifle, which has an exposed, external hammer (most are internal) moves through an arc of about an inch.
in early 1950th
May be a hammer or a striker, depending on design of the gun.
nothing..... just re-cock the hammer before replacing the slide
1920
@ the turn of the century
One shot for each pull of the trigger. The trigger does not cock the hammer.
Put hammer on half-cock and & push rear of barrel to the right.
the model 1894 winchesters of that time did not have what you would consider a mechanical safety,( a button or wing type safety) there safety was a half cock,that is once a round was levered into the breech and the hammer was all the way back you had to safely hold on to the hammer with your finger hand squeeze the trigger to ease the hammer forward then thumb the hammer back until it clicked in the half cock position.