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Unread 05-14-2025, 10:09 PM   #1
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It’s like playing the piano.
Practice scales thousands of times and the muscle memory develops in the fingers.
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Unread 05-14-2025, 10:37 PM   #2
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I have a little drawer full of auto safety rods if you want one. I take them out of my personal guns.
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Another reason to buy a Lefever. The auto safety can be turned on or off with the turn of a screw under the opening lever (except in "pigeon guns" with no safety).
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Another reason to buy a Lefever. The auto safety can be turned on or off with the turn of a screw under the opening lever (except in "pigeon guns" with no safety).
You took the words out of my mouth Bob.
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Another reason to buy a Lefever. The auto safety can be turned on or off with the turn of a screw under the opening lever (except in "pigeon guns" with no safety).
That's why all my Lefevers have the auto-safety locked off. For those that rely on auto-safeties to keep your gun "safe" while hunting, they are a mechanical device. All mechanical devices can fail. I prefer to have that tactile knowledge that if I'm in the field, I engaged the safety. I have a couple of Parkers that I didn't take apart to disassemble the safety rod. Whenever I shoot clays with them they do mess me up on the first few stations. I will be like Breck and those push rods will be tossed into a drawer eventually.
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Unread 05-15-2025, 04:20 PM   #6
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Another reason to buy a Lefever. The auto safety can be turned on or off with the turn of a screw under the opening lever (except in "pigeon guns" with no safety).
I'd hope there were better reasons than that, for buying one. It's just a personal opinion but I have no desire to be able to turn a disabled auto safety back on.
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My Beretta AL 391 came without an auto safety. Should I be concerned?
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My Beretta AL 391 came without an auto safety. Should I be concerned?
I'd send it back!!!
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I really don't understand what all the fuss is about one way or the other. My thumb is on the safety button anyway; pretty easy to tell if the gun is on safety or not. As I said earlier, it seems to me it's all in what you're used to and what works for ya...
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Just my 2 cents but I agree with Phil , when I am hunting ,I don't think my thumb ever leaves the safety button except to fire and reload !
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