Author Topic: Browning Gold Noisy Safety? (Read 395 times)

PETE/NY · « **on:** November 07, 2004, 05:02:51 PM »

I bought a new Browning Gold 20 guage deer gun a few weeks ago.It is a real shooter but the only thing that concerns me is the noisy safety when pushing the button to FIRE! Never had such a noisy safety on any gun like this.Does anyone have a cure for this besides sending it back to them to fix? I have tried working it back& forth a zillion times thinking it would loosen up but still has the noise. I also tried alittle lubrication-same thing!! Thanks in advance. :evil:

PETE/NY · « **Reply #1 on:** November 08, 2004, 11:46:50 AM »

C-130E- thanks as it does quiet it down by putting pressure on it but in the heat of battle- I probably won't hear it anyways. I had read that others had complained to browning and they sent their guns back in to be remedied but our deer season is onnly a few weeks away so for the time being will have to live with it I guess.

Big Paulie · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2004, 08:11:26 AM »

Dear Guys,

I have not heard about the noisy safety issue, but I have a related question. I once shot a brand new Browning Gold, 12 gauge, on the skeet range. The trigger was impossibly horrible to pull. It seemed like it must have been at least 8 pounds. I had to pull so hard, that it pulled me off my targets.

I then read on the boards etc. that this is a major problem with the Browing Golds, and of course there are gunsmith ads all over the place where smiths offer to fix the hard trigger pull (bring it down to about 4 pounds) for an extra $100 or so.

I must say, this is not the type of quality that I would expect from Browning, considering the high cost of these shotguns, being $900 plus!

In their slug gun models, such as this 20 gauge, is there a similar problem with a really heavy trigger? Or, did they fix this for the slug models?

Thanks for any info. Big Paulie

Ramrod · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2004, 01:11:05 PM »

Big Paulie, trigger pull weight nowadays has nothing to do with quality, it is all about "lawyer-proofing" by the manufacturers. Thanks to our out of control tort system, most of the major gun companies are setting the trigger pull ridiculously high knowing that shooters will need to lighten it. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Now if there is ever an accidental shooting, who do you think the liability will fall on?
The noisy saftey issue is part of the same story, if it goes in and out hard, it is difficult to claim it came off safe by itself, and if it is modified, it is pretty hard to blame the gunmaker.