Safety on lever action rifles?

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Better than filling the safety hole with a plug, is putting a peep sight there. Adjustable Bolt-Mounted Blue Peep Sight Safety Replacement [PS-01] - $66.95 : Steve's Gunz, Rossi 92 Specialist
You might need a taller front sight but that's not hard to find.

I have a Skinner sight on a BL-22, because there is no tang on which mount a tang sight. I’m jus not a an of the Skinner sight for various reasons.

Consequently all my Rossi 92s have tang sights.

 

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One might wonder how many times that mere sound of a shotgun being racked resulted in no further response necessary...?

I'm sure it MUST have happened. At least ONCE?

There just HAVE to be some potential perps (Uh, unidentified "suspects"?) who heard and promptly retreated? Of course, getting accurate statistics is virtually impossible...

No personal experience, happily, on my part.

Cheers!

P.S. Bambi's Dad must be quite fleet of foot to be "several hundreds yards away" in the time it takes to load a lever action. Of course, one in the chamber while hunting seems prudent regardless of the weapon design.

I suspect it is a lot like defensive handgun statistics. Most defensive handgun uses don’t actually result in the handgun being fired. Just drawing or beginning to draw a handgun is sufficient most (an estimated 95%) of the time to end an assault when the assailant realizes he is about to get shot and flees. How many of those encounters are reported? Probably not very many.

I’ve saw a weapon twice in work related situations an never had to fire. I also had an individual attempt to mug me with a knife a block or so away from an ATM. I had been in a hurry to get to the AT&T store a couple blocks off the metro before it closed, go cash, hurried down he empty street (cold rainy night) took a wrong turn, turned around and found my self face to face with a Hispanic man in a hoodie, with on arm raised toward my neck and the other coming out of his pocket with a nice. I jabbed him in the chest with my left arm and stepped into him to drive him off balance and keep him off balance to give me time and space to draw with my right hand. However as soon as I lifted my jacket to draw, he has an immediate change in attitude and demeanor, and turned and fled. He clearly did not want to get shot.

I didn’t report it as I had an inoperative phone, and still needed to get to the AT&T store. By the he was long gone and frankly I probably could not have positively identified him anyway. So why spend the time waiting for the police, making a statement, etc, especially in a jurisdiction where concealed carry was legal, but resisted and discouraged by the county.

 

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Your quoted man is an empty sock.... Knows nothing about firearms.....Probably doesn't know which end the bullet comes out.

This one would definitely confuse him.