Thread: New Mauser M18

Originally Posted by Spitfire

The much discussed half cock and other general mistrust of safety catches here is another good example.

i have a brno m98 and a modern zastava m98......
the missus was looking at getting her FAL a while back and one of the things in the reading material given to her was regrding the different safetys ....
so i dragged the 2 out of the safe to show her the difference in how they work , safety on the bolt locking the pin vs safety on the trigger locking the trigger.
so bolt in the old brno pointing down on an empty chamber with safety on dry fire......nothing , works as it should as has done for 60 + years.
same procedure with zastava (this was only a couple of months old at the time) safety on for dry fire .....click , firing pin actuated, the safety did work when i first bought it but after putting less than a box of ammo thru it the safety adjuster screw had worked loose.
so now i check it every time it comes out for use ....and no i dont trust it to the extent i trust the safety that locks the firing pin.