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December 26th, 2020, 12:11 PM #1
Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
Every time i see a review for a rifle with a cross bolt safety, it always gets some comment about how much they dislike them.
I don't get it. What am i missing?
I don't hunt. Is that it? I'll take a cross bolt safety any day over one of those safeties that automatically engages between every shot.
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December 26th, 2020, 12:15 PM #2
Re: Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
Are you referring to lever-action rifles?
Winchester and Marlin both added cross bolt safeties back in the late 90s IIRC , after some big lawsuit. The exposed hammer and half-cock or safety notch wasn't good enough after 100+years.
They're kinda ugly.I don't speak English , I talk American!
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December 26th, 2020, 12:18 PM #3
Re: Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
Ask my wife when she is putting the cross hairs on a nice buck coming at her and the gun goes poink instead of bang, because she forgot the cross bolt. So the hunting part just might be the answer you seek. Since we got thru the first 100 plus years of lever guns without cross bolts, it is just another addition that is based on idiots and lawyers to complicate our lives.
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December 26th, 2020, 12:28 PM #4
Re: Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
Not specifically lever guns. For example, the Ruger 10/22 has a cross bolt safety. But sure, if they are on lever guns primarily.
So .. The cross bolt safety in this case actually allows the gun to move the trigger? Yeah. That would be really annoying.
-ZachMy feedback thread: https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=315316
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December 26th, 2020, 12:47 PM #5
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Re: Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
I don't like them being so close to the trigger. you make a mistake and that pressure you thought was on the safety is now transferred to theBANG! ... ow... trigger.
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December 26th, 2020, 02:16 PM #7
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Re: Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
On a shotgun at least, I prefer crossbolt safeties (specifically behind the trigger) over tang safeties. You lose ambidexterity, but they're easier to disengage with your trigger finger on the way to firing.
I've never had a rifle with a crossbolt safety.
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December 26th, 2020, 02:34 PM #9
Re: Why do people hate cross bolt safeties?
I never did either, but I did have a Marlin 336 without one. It was possible when dropping the hammer to the half-cock position after chambering a round, to have the hammer catch in a position which would allow a jolt, or pressure on the trigger, to allow the hammer to fall without fully cocking the hammer. After an older, wiser hunter showed that to me, I was always very careful when dropping the hammer to half-cock, to make sure it hit the right place and was actually safe.
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December 26th, 2020, 03:57 PM #10
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