heyas; you can't change a prop's parent in the middle of an animation. you'd have to do it in two scenes, as you said. the other alternative is to have two guns, one parented to the hip, and the other to the hand. have the hand gun invisible during the first portion of the animation, then switch visibility when the hand grasps the weapon. that is... i think you can change visibility in the midst of an animation. if not in poser, then surely in lightwave.