I have owned about 5 "no safety" Parkers, almost all DH grades, a couple of Foxes and one Smith. These are not common but hardly "rare". I suspect most made after WWI were actually trap guns rather than "pigeon" guns. One of my many pet peeves is when sellers describe safetyless small gauge guns as "live bird" or "pigeon guns" (Jay Schachter, he of the interminable, verbose and florid descriptions so often found on GA and GB is a particular offender...) If you see a DHE 20 gauge made without a safety it was almost without question a Southern bobwhite gun...perhaps I am too harsh, the quail were probably "live" when shot at...
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