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Offline dougk

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Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« on: January 09, 2008, 03:39:16 AM »
Does anyone know if the Valmet 412 has a standard auto safety or if there was an option to have the auto safety removed?  One of the 412 has an auto safety the other does not.
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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2008, 11:46:36 AM »
  All 412's came with an auto safety, and i "hate" auto safeties!  So i figured out a way to deactivate it...  I offered it as an option and sold a lot of them...

  Valmet sent me some parts and asked me to modify them, for them to look at....i did so, and they later offered a way to disengage the safeties on there trap/skeet models, but not their regular models....

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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2008, 04:16:50 PM »
I hated auto safety until my field shotguns came with them.  After getting use to them I really started to like them. 

I wonder if the modification to the 412 that disabled the auto safety was one of yours...

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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2008, 04:29:27 PM »
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I hated auto safety until my field shotguns came with them.

  They suck big time... every time you open the gun it goes on safe, and if your trying to get a second shot off in a hurry, it's just another thing you have to deal with...

  On top of that, they could get you hurt when your hunting dangerous game...

  Anything i buy that has one... soon doesn't!

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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2008, 04:40:16 PM »
I was referencing shotguns.  :o

But see your point.  And agree for a combo or double rifle.

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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2008, 03:32:29 AM »
Quote from: dougk on January 09, 2008, 04:40:16 PM
I was referencing shotguns.  :o

But see your point.  And agree for a combo or double rifle.

  Now, why should i have to keep a conscious thought in my mine as to what bbl set i have on my combo, or even what gun i'm carrying, when i can just "always know" that my "safety" is on "fire" untill "I" put it on safe!

  I consider "that" unsafe in itself....

  I don't like to clutter my mind too much, there's not much space in there as it is...   ;D

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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2008, 05:23:35 AM »
This is an interesting discussion as I am approaching the combo gun from a field shotgun perspective, which is when you open it the safety is automatically on.  Verse a rifle perspective which is the safety is not engaged until you engage it.

Maybe I should remove the auto safety from the other gun.

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Re: Valmet 412 Auto Safety
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2008, 11:00:53 AM »
  I have a Trap with 32" barrels  auto safety and I have a 30/06 / 30/06  that  does not have it.
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