Talon, Condor safety off question?
When getting ready for a shot, to be safe, I keep the safety on, when I see something move, I check it out through the scope (safety is still on), if it is something I want to shoot (aka, kill), I obviously have to click off the safety, however, it is a PITA, almost impossible to do with your trigger finger, so I wind up using my right hand to click the safety (I am left handed), at this point, the “victom” is no longer in my sights.
Is there a better way to shut the safety off?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!!!
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I use the thumb of my right hand and then return to shooting position. Hope that helps.
You could try a safety release thingy like this….
Makes it all trigger finger capable… 😉
Doug Owen
That is not too safe. I click my safety off when I am ready to shoot and on target, not “coming” to the target, I am already there before disengauging the safety.
Too many things can happen on the way to the target.
You do it your way and I will do it my way
😈
Sure there’s an easy way to deal with the safety, click it off when you mount the gun to come on target.
It’s all about rule number one, the one about never pointing the dangerous end at something you don’t intend to shoot.
It is not safe to use your scope for ‘checking out movement’. It automatically points your gun at an unknown (quite possibly another person or a pet). This is something covered in hunter education, you should have heard all about it in the process of getting your license.
The right way to do it is use your spotting scope (which is why it’s called a spotting scope…) or binoculars to look for game.
Doug Owen
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Too many things can happen on the way to the target.
You do it your way and I will do it my way
😈
That’s precisely the point, trusting the safety is not safe. Your technique in fact mandates that you’ve pointed your muzzle at the trarget (and everything around it) before you’ve identified it as the target.
And a bunch of stuff that wasn’t a legitimate target as well.
You are absolutely right that ‘too many things can happen on the way to the target’, which is why the primary safety rule is to not point the muzzle at anything not identified as a target already. “Buck fever” not withstanding.
You’ll note none of the three safety rules mentions safeties? This is not an oversight. Trusting safeties is a known source of grief.
I’ll continue to ‘do it the NRA way’, and recommend the same. As I said before, it’s important enough to get coverage in hunter ed classes. “Don’t use your scope to look for game” isn’t my idea, I heard it somewhere….. As is ‘don’t trust safeties’ come to think of it.
Doug Owen