RE: [Paddlewise] Distress Signals

  There's no safety per se, but it is a single-action type of gun - i.e. you
have to pull the hammer back manually before pulling on the trigger does
anything.   I don't carry mine with a flare in the chamber for several
reasons - first, the safety issue, although I really don't think it very
likely that it would go off accidentally; and second, because I really can't
imagine a scenario where I'm either so incapacitated that I couldn't load it
or need to fire a flare off so quickly that I couldn't take the few seconds
required to load it.

Dave Seng
Juneau, Alaska

> -----Original Message-----
> From: RBHoltKayak_at_aol.com [mailto:RBHoltKayak_at_aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 11:03 AM
> To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Distress Signals
> 
> 
> Hi Dave,
>     Does the Orion have any type of safety on it?  Would it 
> be okay to load 
> it before the put-in (so that it will be ready to use 
> one-handed) then remove 
> the cartridge after paddling?
>                                                 Thanks,   Robb
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