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Originally Posted By: LeFusil
Safe gun handling trumps mechanical safeties all day long.


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Question is, On a high grade box lock fitted with intercepting sears, If one is missing would you have the missing one duplicated and fitted? Where they were omitted I would not have them made and installed as the maker thought they were not needed for the quality of the finished gun.

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No. If the gun is functioning properly without them, no point in going through the expense of making or fitting the new parts. Waste of money.

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I had a Belgian side by side start going off when I closed it. Repeatable. Sent it to the gunsmith. Got it back and it did it again. It is in my gun cabinet now. I've got to find another gunsmith. I had hunted with that gun for a few seasons before the problem developed.

Hunted with an acquaintance that had a Browning Superposed with a sling. Sling broke, the gun discharged when it hit the ground.

In both instances no harm was done to man or bird dog. But it is only so because of luck.






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safe gun handling can NOT be guaranteed by everyone, that is exactly the point and reason for interceptors.


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It seems to me, intercepting sears are primarily meant as insurance in case of a fall, or perhaps dropping the gun where the sear(s) could be jarred out of bent, an inadvertent act and not really as insurance for poor gun handling in terms of an individual shooters level of safety.


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Originally Posted By: Nitrah
safe gun handling can NOT be guaranteed by everyone, that is exactly the point and reason for interceptors.


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Originally Posted By: Nitrah
safe gun handling can NOT be guaranteed by everyone, that is exactly the point and reason for interceptors.


"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that" - Mr. G. Carlin

Given that all of us are perfect here on DGS and never drop a gun or mishandle one, there's still those other oafs out there to contend with, and it's usually the innocent bystander who suffers. Bring on the intercepting sears and automatic safeties I say.

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Originally Posted By: AmarilloMike
I had a Belgian side by side start going off when I closed it. Repeatable. Sent it to the gunsmith. Got it back and it did it again. It is in my gun cabinet now. I've got to find another gunsmith. I had hunted with that gun for a few seasons before the problem developed.

Hunted with an acquaintance that had a Browning Superposed with a sling. Sling broke, the gun discharged when it hit the ground.

In both instances no harm was done to man or bird dog. But it is only so because of luck.



And Mike, Browning superposed have an extra notch in the tumblers thats supposed to catch the sear...a sort of interceptor, I guess, if the sear is inadvertently jarred out of bent. Apparently, the extra notch did not do its job when the sling broke. Scary.


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Hunting guns should not have a trigger so light that it jars out of bent when dropped, or in a fall. Target guns are different, and are used under much more controlled circumstances. When I lighten a trigger on a gun I test it, unloaded of course, by bumping the butt on the floor or ground, solidly enough to simulate a drop or fall. I hit the side of the buttstock with my hand, in short I do everything I can to cause it to jar out of bent. If it is under 4 lbs., and passes my tests, I feel pretty good about it. I've never had one to fail except for one which had a soft tumbler and wouldn't "hold" the adjustments I did.

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