Switch on the side of the receiver

[chickenstripe]

Does anyone know anything about a switch that I've seen on the side of a Westernfield M72? It doesn't affect the hammer fall as far as I can see.

[MtGun44]

Hammer block safety.

Bill

[Lead Fred]

I have a box full of those worthless safeties.
The Cross Block Safety is the scourge of the modern lever gun
and any others they might stuff them in

[chickenstripe]

It's not like any hammer block safety that I have ever seen. It was on an older Ballard rifled 30-30, and was a switch on the left side of the receiver. The switch could be moved up and down (or forward and backward, I cannot remember). The hammer dropped to the firing pin in either position, must have been "fixed".

[TXGunNut]

Magazine cutoff?

[pietro]

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The Western Field M72 is the store-branded Maooberh 472; the lever's the safety switch....................

http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Manufacturers/Mossberg-33399/Rifles-37442/472PCA-39401.htm




http://www.gunpartscorp.com/pub/schematic/Mossberg_472PRA472PCA_schem.jpg


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