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02-27-2017, 01:27 PM | #3 | ||||||
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I should have been more clear. Speaking strictly about Parkers, I've seen references to those with manual safeties, which I assumed to be safeties that do not reset automatically when the gun is opened for loading. Then I've seen mentioned references to Parker skeet guns that had no safeties at all. Then of course I know that most have safeties that reset automatically when the gun is opened for loading.
Let's stick to parkers with automatic-resetting safeties and parkers with manually reset safeties. Did Parker make their guns only with manual safeties first and then advance to automatically resetting safeties as an improvement? Or was it always an option that the buyer could choose one or the other? Model specific or grade specific option? I've hunted with shotguns that have manually reset safeties and I always thought it was dangerous, particularly in the hands of a new hunter. |
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02-27-2017, 01:37 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Automatic safeties are standard. Non auto would be special order and simply involves either removing or never installing the reset rod.
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02-27-2017, 02:11 PM | #5 | ||||||
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My guess is that Parker Bros. would send the rod along in a small envelope with the gun regardless if the gun was ordered with or without the automatic safety.
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02-27-2017, 02:14 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Thanks Brian. For me, I can't see an advantage for going non-standard to defeat the auto-reset. In any case, if I came across one with a manual safety, I could send it to you, say, and have the reset rod installed?
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02-27-2017, 02:35 PM | #7 | |||||||
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In the few cases that I have been inside guns that were ordered without an auto safety (verified in letter), the holes were not drilled in the stock for the rod.
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02-27-2017, 02:39 PM | #8 | ||||||
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This brings to mind a question I've had for a long time about no safety guns. The Remington Pigeon Guns built with no safety had a much more solid head to their stocks as they weren't milled out for the safety mechanism. I've never had the opportunity to see inside a Parker Bros. or Ansley H. Fox no safety gun. Were they built solid like the Remingtons?
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02-27-2017, 02:57 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Parkers ordered with no safety woild have solid heads with no inletting for the safety jacket assembly.
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