Remember the guns with safeties but not intercepting sears could discharge if dropped. A safety can give a false sense of security and is no substitute for what our fathers told us: treat all guns as if they were loaded, and never point a gun at anything you don’t want to shoot. I want automatic safeties on all my guns, but I cannot ever recall, in over 60 years of using a firearm, where a safety prevented an accident.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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