Lever Action Rifle Preference

[Dolt]

Oh, brother, you'd LOVE the "gun-room" scene in "Home From the Hill"! (Great movie but not as great as the novel itself.) Robert Mitchum instructs his panty-waist son in gun-handling, using a Model 94.

11 yr olds probably shouldn't be handling a '94, but hammers don't "slip"--careless or incompetent shooters LET them slip. The most common boy's rifles used to be single-shots with exposed hammers, like Stevens Favorites, and they were always regarded as safer for kids than any other design.

The best firearms "safety" can be found between the ears. If it is not there, no mechanical safety can take its place.

[S.A. Boggs]

The best firearms "safety" can be found between the ears. If it is not there, no mechanical safety can take its place.

You said it all, glad that someone did. Anything mechanical /electrical will fail per Murphy's Law.
Sam