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Looking at a Citori 20 ga field gun. the safety is non auto. Is it suppose to be non auto, or is it not functioning correctly?
It also seem a bit stiff to start the top lever over when breaking it down.
Thanks for your help
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All the Citori field guns I've owned were auto safety. It's a simple job to deactivate the auto safety and therefore it's fairly common/popular to do it.
A little grease on the locking lugs will help with the sticky toplever.
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Thanks Chuck,
I knew the Superpose was made with non auto safety, but did not know about the Citori. I pulled the Citori stock and study it until I was cross eyed, but cannot see that it ever had an auto safety. It was made in 1982, so there could have been some changes.
Anybody seen non auto safety Citori's ???
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I have had a few Citoris(older ones) and Superposeds and never had one with an auto safety. Be happy yours isn't. Most annoying, most useless "feature" ever invented!
> Jim Legg <
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My 3.5 Citori's does not have an auto safety.
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When you take out the little press metal lever that opperates the auto safety you would never know that it had been there, I have one that I have taken out, it really looks like an after thought.
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"Life is too short to drink cheap wine"
That's a fact!
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Wonder about the history of the auto safe? My guess would be the Brits came up with it, since most Brit doubles seem to have one. Also makes sense if you're shooting driven with a pair. Enough potential fumbling around there with guns on safe after being closed, let alone ready to fire.
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I have a Winchester 101 in 20 ga., circa 1967 first came out in June of that year. This gun does not have an auto safety. Was wondering if they kept doing this later on.
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I have two Citori's; one a 525 Sporting, the other a Superlight Feather, neither one has an auto safety, both manufactured within the last three years. Also a 50's vintage J.P. Sauer, which does. (we can't blame everything on the poor Brits) Also, the RBL is auto safety, which will be disabled as soon as someone learnes how to do it, and publishes.
I find the auto safety a cumbersome annoyance, and perhaps a safety issue as well, especially since the gun I use most, the 525 ~5,000 rounds a year, has no auto safety.
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