Does a Peabody-Martini have a safety?

[Cameronafter8]

Does a Peabody-Martini have a safety?
No where in my reading does it mention that.

""Note that the cocking indicator is changing


position when the lever is lowered."""

Could it be the cocking lever is pulled back as a safety. It sould be odd that a military or a hunting rifle would not have one, of some sort.

 

[Vaarok]

No safety. Single shot. Safe is empty.

 

[RecoilRob]

Actually, there WERE some with safety..http://www.militaryrifles.com/Turkey/TPeabMar.htm I've read of other countries using the safety for a time, then having them removed.

 

[Bart Noir]

Recoil, thanks for that info. Very interesting. Gee, I hear the Rowan and Martin Laugh-In voice.....

Bart Noir

 

[Cameronafter8]

Any idea where the safety was and how the safety worked?

 

[RecoilRob]

Look at the pic I posted above. The safety is the lever just above and forward of the trigger pointing down into the trigger guard.

I believe the Brits also experimented with putting safetys on the MH's, but found them fiddley and they complicated the assembly of the trigger group into the rifle.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Lack of a safety is what killed the Prince Imperial -- the son of Napoleon III. After being driven out of France, Napoleon and his family lived in England. His son (the Prince Imperial) attended Woolwich Military Academy, then went out to South Africa as an observer in the Zulu War of 1879.

Assigned to a Lieutenant (a former classmate), he rode out with the chap to find a new spot for headquarters. They found a Zulu Kraal, with cooking fires still burning.

Yes, I know what you and I would think, but they thought, "How convenient! Let's brew up a spot of tea, what?"

As they were finishing, Zulus jumped up all around them. Their escorts were armed with Martini-Henry carbines -- not a weapon you'd want to carry loaded with no safety! And no time to load as they ran for their horses.

The Prince Imperial managed to get one foot in the stirrup, and his horse bolted. He fell after a hundred yards and the Zulus were all over him.

The escort didn't fire a shot.

 

[Gordon]

My Greener GP (martini) has a safety that blocks the firing pin positively. All my other 4 martinis don't!

 

[Cameronafter8]

Pulled up and out for ready, pull down to block trigger for safety?

Thank you guys a lot.
I am writing a western(should be done this month), and one of the Villains has a .40.70.380 "What Cheer" Peabody Mid Range Creedmoor, with a "powerful" 4 power side mounted Malcome telescope sight. He is a "Dude".

One of my main sources was 10 Old Gun Catalogs (1864-1880) compiled by L.D. Satterlee. This has 25 pages about the Peabody rifle.
I had a few old Gun Digest catalogs, with intersting articles in them. But this was not covered.

Thank god for the net.

I was able to pick up something from this com, about that could go wrong with a Sharps double set trigger, that the other villian is using. That gives me a point of suspence, as the "Dude" tells the other villian, what is wrong with his rifle. That could set minds to wondering.

The hero two days later ends up with a Remington Creedmoor, now compleatly ruined as target shooting rifle, in the villians unable to find the rifle, have ruined the false muzzle.

Right now I'm at the point where I have too much detail for this scene, but one must have that do boil it down for an impression.

Thanks again.