EDGUN SAFETY
I just got my Matador and realized that it has no safety. If a pellet was loaded, I flip the lever pull back the bolt, hold the trigger & release the bolt – de-cock? Would it be ok to just open the bolt?
What do you do to insure safety?
Thanks Bryan
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Get one of them flexible bore lights, stick it down the breech and place a small cosmetic mirror at the muzzle. That’ll show if she’s loaded or not.
Like Ed said the best safety is your head! My dad always said to me to ” keep your finger out of the fu**ing trigger guard dumbass”. That kind of advice proved my mother wrong and we all kept our eyes with or without safeties 🙂
Simple decocking is just working fine. just sometime forget it’s loaded or not.
Yes, was made few hundreds of guns with that way of safty, it wasn’t comfortable and I refuse to make it.
It is difficult to make at bullpups when safty is switched on at the handle. On the other hand when it is switched on at the breech it is out of safe use, I believe.
Decocking the gun may save the hammer spring, but it’s better to have an option to have a safety to lock the hammer.
Damn Wingy Man,,, i haven’t seen anything could be survived from you (between your hands) in this forum since i joined ,,, where are you from Phil?? you must be an Alien!!
Was this lever a safety catch on the early R2’s Ed?
i also personally prefer the hammer lock ,,,, if the hammer de-cocked then there will no way to shot accidentally ,,, this is the most safety way for been sure about your gun that in a safe position ,,, :4: :4:
The best safty is the one’s head, if one doens’t have it, it doesn’t matter what safty the gun is equiped with. Besides, the safty at most guns (especially PCP bullpups) lock only the trigger, not the sear, thuis when the gun falls, it can shoot accidantely even being put in a safty mode. So I prefer to unckock it.
People actually read the manuals……………? My mind is blown.
Last year we had a family of large rats in the trash compactor at work. The boss wanted them snuffed out. Couldn’t use a powder burner so I offered to bring my s-200 out. I killed two but the last rat was a crafty sum bitch. Never could get a shot at him on night shift. Boss told me to leave the rifle at work and he would get him. Now my boss is a gun guy and a hunter, so when I explained to him that gun didn’t have a safety and it would have to be decocked or discharged before putting it back in the case or when not in use. Next day we still hadn’t killed the rat bastard so I decided I would go out by the dumpster and see about getting a shot off.
Pulled my gun out of the case and low and behold it was loaded and cocked!!
Moral of the story is most people can’t even follow simple verbal/ visual instructions. How can we expect more 🙂
Learn Russian, we are comming (taking into consideration what Jennifer Rene Psaki incline into). 😀
I’m sorry, I read it in the manual. I was planning on taking to a rifle range with some of my powder burning buddies and remember that the last time I was at one, the range officer wanted to see the rifle unloaded & action open. I guess that from what Wanta Edgun says, bad things can happen when the bolt is left open. I’ll have to ask my buddy about the pellet loaded / bolt open requirement. If they don’t like it, screw um. I got 75 yards in my backyard & 150 yards if i shoot with my neighbor from his yard.
Ed, please leave the manual. In Teds video, there was a beautiful model holding the rifle – there was a silhouette of your dog on mine – & the rifle. Don’t get me wrong, Ralph is a fine companion, I grew up with a Rottweiler. Perhaps if you had a model like Tiiu Kuik or Eda Innes Etti photographed showing proper cocking / de-cocking procedures, more people will pay attention – then again, maybe not.
Thank you all for the feedback, Bryan
I read my manual front to back when I first got my gun. That is where I learned the de-cocking instructions originally.
i got a non English Manual, so even if i tried i couldnt read it
Ed
😆 you should truely know the customers always right and an operators manual is just a manifactrers opinion of how something operates.. 😆
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I made a collar that slips between the back of the bolt and the action to keep the probe back without cocking the hammer. That way the rifle is safe (no tension on the hammer spring) and there is no way I can bend the probe (at the range closest to me they want a empty chamber indicator).
Leaving the hammer back is a typical out of battery procedure for a semi-auto pistol on the range. JUST DON’T PULL THE TRIGGER before you are ready to actually fire dummy. :whistle:
THE best safety is between your ears. 😉