better safe than sorry! (kinda Funny)

[PryItFromMyColdDeadHands]

While At the range the other day, a fellow shooter was gracious enough to offer to let me shoot his .444 lever action (or maybe he needed another set of prints).

anyway, after shooting the rile I placed the weapon on safety and handed it back to him. He then proceeded to load the weapon and sat back down on his bench to shoot again. CLICK is what we all heard. He announced a slow burn and the range went cold. As the minutes ticked by and the round did not go off, he was still sitting there nervously. More minutes went by. I didn't mind because as we know its better to be safe than sorry. After about 5 minutes he realized that I had placed the weapon on safety and then fired as usual. He stated to me that he NEVER puts his guns on safety GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was shocked and it kinda scared me.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

why?

 

[ultradoc]

hum. interesting

 

[rbernie]

Marlin's had a safety long before they put that cross-bolt abomination in the receiver; it's called a half cock notch. Many of us use the original one instead of the new fangled one. That doesn't mean that you should be scared of us.

More to the point - of what need is a safety on a rifle that is unloaded? And who would ever accept a rifle handed to them without first checking the chamber to make sure that it's unloaded?

 

[skidmark]

There is a great and never-to-be-resolved debate about the necessity and usefullness of a mechanical safety.

There are two sides (at least) to the debate.

You belong to one side, he belongs to the other.

As long as the "4 Rules" are followed, we will never know if one or the other of you are correct. Violate any of the "4 Rules" and things change in favor of the mechanical safety being necessary and useful.

Now go back outside and play nicely.

stay safe.

skidmark

 

[22lr]

LOL, good one talk about a red face. However guns have been safe for a long time without safeties.

 

[expvideo]

I was shocked and it kinda scared me.

Why? That's actually a pretty common practice. A manual safety is redundant if you follow the 4 rules.

I only keep my rifles on safe, and that's just because my girlfriend complains if I don't. My pistol doesn't even have a safety.

 

[Guy de Loimbard]

Nothing wrong with not using a mechanical safety if you do it right. Myself, I generally only use the safety on the pistol I happen to be carrying at the time (if it has one). At the ranges around here we always lock slide back/leave bolt open/cylinder open when we're not actually firing, so there's little point in playing with the safety.

I still know how all of them work though. Except the Marlin, I could never figure the safety on that out so I took it off.

 

[jnyork]

It shocks and scares me that you would actually hand a person a loaded rifle.

 

[expvideo]

It shocks and scares me that you would actually hand a person a loaded rifle.

Calm down. They were at a range and they both knew that the gun was loaded.

 

[Delaware_Dan]

My brain is the only saftey I use, but I shoot alone a lot.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

The only safety I use regularly is on my carry pistol (Beretta 92FS). I don't want to emulate the local guy who inadvertantly blew his own balls off with a crotched .44 magnum revolver.

Actually, at the range if I turn a rifle over to a pupil with a loaded magazine, instead of emptying the magazine I will put the safety on. So I guess I'm sort of with the OP.

 

[General Geoff]

Only safety I use is on a carried 1911. All my other guns, the safety STAYS OFF, all the time. This way I know that when the trigger is pulled, the hammer falls. It has nothing to do with safe gun handling, as the trigger is never even touched until the target is lined up in the sight picture. Frankly, I think most manually operated external safeties are just redundant.