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Sidelock
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I thought everyone would enjoy this 1880 Vintage W.W. Greener Exposition Gun. Anson & Deeley action and shoots just fine when I pull the triggers at the right time.  
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NICE, but they always put the safety in the wrong place.
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Chief, not always. I used to own a nice F25 Greener that had the safety on the topstrap. That's the only one that I've seen.
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I dunno what it is, but there is something special about the looks of a Greener. I'm agonna get me one some day when I grow up.
Glenn
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W.W. Greener assumed everyone would have a loader with them to hand them the gun. So he favored the side safety so the gunner would
push it off safety as the loader handed him the second gun. Quite a different situation here in the States Ol' Chap.
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Actually the side safety forces you to take your finger off the trigger to roll your hand over to release the safety with your right thumb..I have seen guns fire more than once due to the shooter having his finger on the trigger when pushing a tang safety forward. So to me it's a safer arrangement. It also works well for left handers...same thing, you need to use your index finger to push the safety forward so it can't be on the trigger at the same time.
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Kinda remings me of a 1900 Rem.
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Hmmmmm....I wonder who has a bunch of side-safety Greener's on his website for sale???
Anyone want to guess?
And I've heard the English shooting story before. When you're waiting on a drive with a loaded gun, it's sort of natural to rest the gun on your right hip. When you do this, the gun has a tendencies to roll to the right.
This makes it easy to see the left side of the gun - the place where the safety is located - and tell if the safe is OFF or ON.
That's what I've been told, anyway.
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Ken,
Remington, I understand was the only company in the US to license the Anson and Deeley action from Westley Richards. Graham Greener told me after seeing this Gun that they had licensed WR for a few years before adopting their Facil Princeps action.He said he thought this was the finest A&D Greener that he had seen.It was made for the Australian Exposition of 1880
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I like the gun but don't like the cross bolt lock up. That one looks rounded but some can be a little on the sharp side. I don't want any appendages sticking out the side of the gun to get nicked, bent our gouging into my skin. It may even be over kill for a shotgun. It seems that alot of the Belgium and German guns come with them.
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