The Remington Safety

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.:D

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.:confused: 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.:p(Duh) How hard was that!:o

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.:rolleyes:
 
But givin' my mental capacity while quickly awoken is question to... well... question. The right is right thing leaves me second guessin' myself... After a few rounds in the ring with a bottle of "unaged corn liquor" you learn to second guess yourself...:o
Brent
 
Well I guess for me I'm just going to remember to use only the one finger to push the safety and squeeze the trigger. Beats trying to find the light switch so I can see if the little red band is showing, my near vision isn't that good anyway, especially after a few Heinekens or Vodka Martinis (Yankee territory up here, don't you know):D
 
I have shot only Remington since I got out of the service. The safety to me is so automatic I never remember taking it off, and the same with putting it back on but when I'm done shooting the safety is back on. But me changing to another shoot shotgun it's a disaster:confused::)
 
The Remington safety, or any safety button placed behind the triggerguard, is actually the quickest and easiest to operate. Even for left handed persons. Try using the 2nd pad of your trigger finger to disengage the safety while your finger lays alongside the outside of the triggerguard. Use the tip of your middle finger to engage the safety. Lefty's just reverse the process. It is the exact motion used to disengage a Garand or Mini-14. I can check my safety by reaching behind the triggerguard with my middle finger to feel if the safety is on.

The problem with the Mossberg safety is that it requires you to reposition your thumb before you can get a secure grip on the gun before firing.
 
being LH, I make a point to not use the safety - either I'm on station, gun loaded, ready to shoot....or I'm not and the action is open - never saw a need for a safety on a target gun myself, especially auto safeties on O/U's and SxS; at least it isn't on the semiauto.......
 
xm, You assume OOL hunts... I have learned that a well rounded shooter who engages clay birds, paper targets, fur and feather critters and and is willing to engage the boogy man with the same weapon is in a vastly minority setting.
For me the tang safety of the mossberg rules as I can tote the gun all day with no safety and before firing I know the status of the safety. Trigger guard buttons are possibly turned on or off by the scrub.
Brent
 
HogDogs,point taken.What I should have typed is Oneounceload do you hunt with an 870?If you do hunt with one do you use the safety?
 
My situation: 870's are my HD gun only, I hunt with over/unders which all have tang mounted safties. The HD 870 is kept in a wall mounted lock, muzzel down, loaded 7 times of 00, chamber empty, firing pin relaxed, safety disengaged. Upon need, retrieve said 870, rack slide to load shell, depress the pad to activate the light if needed, use as required...... ;)
 
I just took a picture of the Benelli setup, you'll notice it's identical to your Remmington, but in what I feel is a more favorable position. It's all about what you're used to :cool:

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If you're a lefty, you're just sort of screwed on that one I think since the lock is on the wrong side :confused:
 

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