stargazer65
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OK, I finally sat down to figure out how to know without looking whether the safety is on or not on my 1100 and I got it figured out. I know, I know, some of you are thinking: Gee, how long did it take you to figure that one out, you must be a rocket scientist.
The back story on this is that I was noting while talking about the Mossberg (the Glock of shotguns) on another thread with Hogdogs that it's nice that you can see the safety on the tang. I have to turn my Remington over and look to see if the little red band is showing or not. So I thought that there's got to be a better way. Sure enough I went upstairs and pulled it off the rack and noticed something obvious right away. You have to use your trigger finger to turn the safety off.(Duh) How hard was that!
I had it beat into my head all these years to turn it over look and think "Redyou'reDead". It never occurred to me that there was another obvious way to check.
Anticonn figured this one out a long time ago:
I've never used a Benelli so I don't know much about any diiference in the safety. Course this brings up a question, what if you're left handed? Is the safety on a LH model opposite?
OK, commence the snide comments.
The back story on this is that I was noting while talking about the Mossberg (the Glock of shotguns) on another thread with Hogdogs that it's nice that you can see the safety on the tang. I have to turn my Remington over and look to see if the little red band is showing or not. So I thought that there's got to be a better way. Sure enough I went upstairs and pulled it off the rack and noticed something obvious right away. You have to use your trigger finger to turn the safety off.(Duh) How hard was that!
I had it beat into my head all these years to turn it over look and think "Redyou'reDead". It never occurred to me that there was another obvious way to check.
Anticonn figured this one out a long time ago:
I'm used to this type of safety, the same is on my Benelli, and was on my earliest rifles growing up. Being right handed it's very intuitive, the trigger guard (where you finger should be, mind you) is smooth when you're off safe. This is one of the reasons I chose my Nova over an 870 (as in my above post), I couldn't brush the safety with my trigger finger to check/switch it with the Rem.
I've never used a Benelli so I don't know much about any diiference in the safety. Course this brings up a question, what if you're left handed? Is the safety on a LH model opposite?
OK, commence the snide comments.