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#619785 09/25/2022 10:20 PM
by Vol423
Vol423
I just bought another Darne, this time a 16 gauge, because I keep hoping I'll find one that I can shoot. I like the design. Regarding safety mechanisms, I have seen the ones with a side safety that turns, and safeties that act like cross bolt safeties. This gun has a turn lever type safety with the actuator on the left side. As a left handed shooter, I believe that I would prefer the actuator on the right side of the action. Can these safeties be reversed and converted from cross bolt to lever safety and back? I know about cast in a Darne and this one is pretty neutral.

I'm sure that Ted can shed some light on this issue. Are there others? Is there a gunsmith with expertise on Darne shotguns?
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#619789 Sep 25th a 11:02 PM
by LeFusil
LeFusil
I’m a southpaw and I prefer the toggle safety on the left side. In my opinion….it’s definitely not a type of safety that you flick off on the rise no matter what side of the block it’s mounted on. It’s more like a flick it off as you’re walking in, at least that’s how I’ve done it for 20+ yrs.
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#620376 Oct 8th a 04:42 PM
by Ted Schefelbein
Ted Schefelbein
I’ve never owned a Greener patent gun with the side safety, but, as a lefty, the guns I handled felt wonderful!

I figured if I got a 16 gauge Greener with the left safety, I’d have a gun nobody asked to shoot, with ammunition nobody wanted to bum off me.

Never got the chance, but, would have loved to try.

Best,
Ted
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#620378 Oct 8th a 05:24 PM
by LeFusil
LeFusil
Originally Posted by Vol423
You'll hate that Greener safety. I do and I'm a lefty. The Germans adopted them for drillings. The Swedes hated them so much on drillings that the Germans had to make top tang safeties and they called them Swedish safeties. I have only one drilling with a Greener safety. It has a bar mounted on the safety. It protrudes upward so that I can flick it off with my thumb.


Well. I’m a southpaw and I absolutely LOVE the Greener side safety. Works well for me. I own both a G-gun and FH25, working the side safety on a Greener has never been an issue for me or for the few other southpaws that I know who use Greener guns equipped with that safety.
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