Auto safety

[J. A. EARLY]

Wish they had auto safeties on hammer guns. The biggest mistake I continued to make with them dove hunting is to cock both hammers to shoot at a dove, kill it with the first shot, go to pick it up, and later discover I still had a cocked gun with the unfired barrel. Would only find it out when I went to reload. It was hard to get used to.

[Clark McCombe]

Haven’t shot anything but sxs in quite a while, except a bolt action 22 to take care of a woodchuck in a trap. That one has a safety but operates backwards.
I do have an Ithaca 37 and honestly as I remember - the safety there was a problem

[Bill Murphy]

Sometimes I get the idea that you're messing with us, Clark.

[Phil Yearout]

Auto safeties are just like anything else; it’s all a matter of what you’re used to. All my sxs’s have one except one; I wish it did and I have the rod for it but not interested in pulling the stock to reinstall it. Besides, “couldn’t get the safety off” is one of my main excuses for missing

[Mike of the Mountain]

I do not like auto-safeties. If I remove a stock on a double-gun I will remove the auto-safety rod and work it as a manual safety. I am used to manual safeties on my hunting guns and there's nothing more annoying than an auto-safety on a target gun!!

I too shoot a Ithaca M37. The only time I use the safety is if I hunt with it, otherwise it's fun to shoot in competition as the safety remains off. I just have to remember to pump!!

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

I too shoot a Ithaca M37. The only time I use the safety is if I hunt with it, otherwise it's fun to shoot in competition as the safety remains off. I just have to remember to pump!!

Me too Mike - we should probably stick to SXS’s.
I bought a new Stevens 20 gauge in 1964 that was a knockoff of the Ithaca 37 but fumbled a bit with the double triggers and tang safety of the Parker Trojan I shot interchangeably with the Stevens. But these days I fumble with the Stevens… if I even shoot it these days.





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[Harold Pickens]

I never liked non automatic safeties, but I primarily hunt, and hunt alot.

[todd allen]

The "Auto Saftey" should be the 6" between your ears.

[Stan Hillis]

I despise an automatic safety. IMHO, the real safety is not made into the gun, it is between one's ears.

[Researcher]

I grew up shooting doubles with automatic safeties and it has never been an issue. I've shot tens of thousands of rounds of skeet with my Fox-Sterlingworth Ejector Skeet & Upland Game Gun in the last 20 years, and the automatic safety has never been an issue.