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Unread 07-05-2024, 01:54 PM   #11
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I do have a no safety 30" 20 gauge AHE and I'm going to have a safety installed in it so I can hunt with it. And of course, these days, there is some liability using a gun with no safety in the event of an accidental discharge.
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Unread 07-05-2024, 06:04 PM   #12
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Regular, 1-1/2 x 2-1/2
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I will buy Larry's gun and sell him a gun with a safety, so he can "hunt with it". Pigeon guns are a serious niche collecting interest, my interest included.
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Well Bill I guess you and the restorer are on the same page because he told me yesterday he really didn't want to put a safety on it. So, I guess it will be a targets only gun....
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Unread 07-06-2024, 01:56 PM   #15
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Not all of the no safety guns were intended as target guns. A lot of the old timers felt that a safety gave shooters a false sense of security and made them careless. Many of them also were used to hammer guns that did not have a safety. That is why people like Nash Buckingham hunted with no safety guns. It made you be more careful. I don't know that I agree with that,but he wrote about it in several magazine articles and in his books.
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No problem hunting with a no-safety gun. Just carry it with the action broken open, close it when you walked up on the bird and are ready to shoot. That's how I carry my hammer guns in the field, cocked with the action open.
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Didn't I read somewhere that small bore no safety guns were sometimes ordered by quail hunters that followed the dogs in wagons or on horses? In those cases they weren't carrying or loading their guns until they were moving up to the dogs on point. Wouldn't really need a safety in that case.
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Unread 07-07-2024, 06:11 PM   #18
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I can remember a couple of my Dad's friends carrying doubles unloaded and broke open until the dogs pointed. This was pretty much woodcock and grouse. They were gentleman and the dogs were solid broke.....

This was back in the late 50's or so
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I shot the little 20 bore yesterday in a round of skeet and it functioned perfectly. When I did my part the birds were smoke with those .027 constriction barrels. I have to say this gun has the best triggers I have felt in any Parker and the ejectors were perfect as well. Neat little gun.
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Is this an 0 frame gun Gerry ?
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