When I first started hunting my friend occaisionally loaned me his dad's side by side and it had a safety operated by the trigger guard. The trigger guard was composed of wood and metal, if i remember corretly. The trigger guard hung down and when you wanted to shoot, you squeezed it tight to the stock. That was about 40 years ago. I am thinking the gun was French. I keep thinking I will run into that type of safety again, but I have not. What kind of gun was that? Thanks, Dan