I do not own a vintage gun with automatic safety. I always remove the rod on Foxes, and disable the auto feature on my hunting and competition guns. When one bird is worth thousands of dollars, few serious competitors are willing to take the chance. I have taught my grandsons that the safety is between their ears, not on their gun. I would hate to hunt with a man who could not train himself to put his loaded gun back on safe.
Anytime this comes up I wonder how many shooters who preach the virtues of an automatic safety have autos and pumps in their stable. If they are so all fired important, no pun intended, why don't THEY have them?
SRH
Like Stan I've had every auto-safety removed. I have rifles, pistols and shotguns with various safeties and all are manual. I believe that is safer to have all of my safeties manual because, no matter which weapon I am using, I know that it's up to me to engage the safety EVERY time.
