Thread: Boito side by side safety catch

As per title, it is causing me grief, it only works on one barrel.

Is this common and is it a repair job for the ‘home gunsmith’?

(aka Bubba)

Got one at home. Back in a couple of days and I can check it out.
It blocks the tripping levers from the trigger to the hammers from lifting.
Take the stock off and have a squiz.

Thanks for the idea chaps, I’ve a day off tomorrow so will see if I can fix the gun,
I have a largish dining table and an understanding wife so I’ll see what I can do...

Now having a coffee while examining the offending gun.
It seems the rear trigger will fire even with the safety on - HOWEVER if pressure if kept rearward on the safety button it won’t fire.

Next step is to pull things apart and look at the mechanical gubbins to see what is worn or needs ‘adjusting’.

If it's the same as mine just a long bolt through the back of the stock. Mine is slotted like a screw.
It may just be worn or bent.
Not a lot going on in there
It will be brutally obvious

Far out a Boito that is still a live !!! It must be 40yrs old ?
I had a Boito o/u shotgun i bought new, Lake Ellesmere killed it, thankfully before it killed me. You could load a couple of crackers in it , line up a duck , pull the trigger and nothing, next time both crackers would go off at once and just to make life really interesting [for all the wrong reasons] I opened it , closed it and a cracker went off. It got sold for parts straight after that, it was many many years ago.

@Finnwolf.
I just gotta tell you the truth mate. It's a concrete bucket in the tide

Originally Posted by mimms2

Ehh. There's not much 'adjustment' in there.
Adjusting on them is done with heat and bend, and file.

Could be broken/weak (leaf) spring and/or some kind of detent holding the safety back.

As it turns out it was less than precise construction, the L shaped ‘rocker’ that blocked the triggers wasn’t moving far enough to engage properly when the safety button/slider was moved, a minor build up with a tig on the bottom of the safety button/slider should make things right.

These Boitos actions and mechanisms look like they were constructed in a blacksmiths and all fettling done with a b.f.h. and a coarse file...

I had one once ,a long time ago, for a very short while. It stopped cocking on one barrel.i was able to bend the bent cocking lever straight in my hands.

Update: I knocked out the pin that holds the safety ‘button’ in place and using a strategically placed gutter bolt (as an ‘anchor’) and water pump pliers I ‘eased’ the top of the ‘L’ shaped rocker closer to the button, it only had to go 2mm at most.
Reassembled things again.
Now the safety works properly on both barrels!!

great to hear it working properly now.

Originally Posted by Woody

@Finnwolf.
I just gotta tell you the truth mate. It's a concrete bucket in the tide

@Woody -