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If that's the case, I would expect the side safety guns to be much higher grade. But all I've seen is the opposite.

I definitely would not call it a brilliant idea.

I could be misremembering, having owned only one Greener, and that one with a tang safety. But I'm thinking that the side safety was found on their FH (Facile Princeps) guns, while the DH (Deeley action) guns had a tang safety.

A quick check of Guns International indicates that's not always the case.

All you’ve seen is the opposite? You’ve never seen a high grade Greener FH or G with a side safety???? Those weren’t exactly “low grade” guns, Brent. A G70 Imperial is a low grade gun?? A G Royal? FH50,60,70’s? Not. Sounds like you need to get out and see more.


Well, it is the case. A common misconception is that you had to have a high grade gun to shoot at a driven shoot. There are plenty of pretty plain matched pair guns, especially boxocks out there (I’ve seen a few very plain W&S built Army and Navy’s sporting a 1 or 2 on them). Another somewhat common misconception is that all driven shoots were a “high end” activity.
Sitting in a wood pigeon hide isn’t exactly a high end affair either, lots of these guns were used for that too seeing how it was and still is a very popular thing to do in England. Sitting in a duck blind or shore bird blind (plover hunting) isnt extremely high end either.
Like I said, the safety wasn’t designed as a rough or walk system.

Germans & Austrians love brilliant ideas too. Many makers there also adopted the side safety.

indeed, FPs came with either type of safety, though the left side safety is much more common to find.