Gideon - Nope, still got the Viking. I couldn't bear to part with it after all 
I can't imagine why you'd be hoping I had gotten rid of it 
Regarding the safety (or lack thereof)It doesn't need a working safety. It had a working safety, and I took it off You'd be surprised though, I don't think I've ever shot it without meaning to (with barrel bag on, of course) more than once or twice...much less than I used to do with the safety installed. There are actually two reasons for not having it:
1. It got in the way, the Benchmark safety is rather wierd. This caused me to activate it without meaning to during a game, especially while shooting left handed.
2. Not having a safety makes you keep your finger off the trigger. I've seen people walk around holding the trigger on their gun (Personman did it at SCAO2 and got goop in his barrel right before a game) and they shoot the gun without meaning to. And I'm sure you've seen countless little kids with Spyders or rentals and such blow the barrel plug out of the end of their barrel and say "Whoops, I thought the safety was on!" Guess what? If you don't have a safety then you learn to keep your finger off the trigger
(which you should do anyway, this just forces you to do it)
When I loan my gun out to people, I make sure to tell them that there isn't any safety and the gun is capable of firing the second it's gassed up. This makes them handle it very carefully (again, as they should be doing anyway. Being familiar with firearms reinforces this, i.e., treat every gun as if it was loaded, don't rely on the safety, etc)
BTW, many electros don't have safeties either. The Viking, LED Angels, Angel Speed, Bushmasters, etc. all don't have them, just an on/off switch.
Heather- You can have the barrel plug, if you're going to use it as a mold I'll just give you another one instead of my super-cool Dye one
By the way, are you looking to fashion a barrel plug with o-rings or an o-ring-less design? Most of mine have notches for orings, but I usually end up removing some of them or replacing them with smaller O.D. ones b/c they fit too tightly in the barrel. (That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it could scratch up the inside of your barrel...and then there was this one time a guy tripped and fell with a plug in his gun, barrel went into the dirt and snapped off the end of the plug, leaving him with a somewhat permanantly plugged barrel. It would have been much easier to get out if it didn't have as much tension on it.) I have a Brass Eagle one that doesn't use orings, but the thing is so huge the only thing it would fit in was my stock Phantom barrel (it barely goes in my .695 AA if you shove it, and it nearly fell out of the Phantom barrel. Yeah, that could have been why my efficiency was that of a semi 
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I can't imagine why you'd be hoping I had gotten rid of it Regarding the safety (or lack thereof)It doesn't need a working safety. It had a working safety, and I took it off
You'd be surprised though, I don't think I've ever shot it without meaning to (with barrel bag on, of course) more than once or twice...much less than I used to do with the safety installed. There are actually two reasons for not having it:1. It got in the way, the Benchmark safety is rather wierd. This caused me to activate it without meaning to during a game, especially while shooting left handed.
2. Not having a safety makes you keep your finger off the trigger. I've seen people walk around holding the trigger on their gun (Personman did it at SCAO2 and got goop in his barrel right before a game) and they shoot the gun without meaning to. And I'm sure you've seen countless little kids with Spyders or rentals and such blow the barrel plug out of the end of their barrel and say "Whoops, I thought the safety was on!" Guess what? If you don't have a safety then you learn to keep your finger off the trigger
(which you should do anyway, this just forces you to do it) When I loan my gun out to people, I make sure to tell them that there isn't any safety and the gun is capable of firing the second it's gassed up. This makes them handle it very carefully (again, as they should be doing anyway. Being familiar with firearms reinforces this, i.e., treat every gun as if it was loaded, don't rely on the safety, etc)
BTW, many electros don't have safeties either. The Viking, LED Angels, Angel Speed, Bushmasters, etc. all don't have them, just an on/off switch.
Heather- You can have the barrel plug, if you're going to use it as a mold I'll just give you another one instead of my super-cool Dye one
By the way, are you looking to fashion a barrel plug with o-rings or an o-ring-less design? Most of mine have notches for orings, but I usually end up removing some of them or replacing them with smaller O.D. ones b/c they fit too tightly in the barrel. (That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it could scratch up the inside of your barrel...and then there was this one time a guy tripped and fell with a plug in his gun, barrel went into the dirt and snapped off the end of the plug, leaving him with a somewhat permanantly plugged barrel. It would have been much easier to get out if it didn't have as much tension on it.) I have a Brass Eagle one that doesn't use orings, but the thing is so huge the only thing it would fit in was my stock Phantom barrel (it barely goes in my .695 AA if you shove it, and it nearly fell out of the Phantom barrel. Yeah, that could have been why my efficiency was that of a semi )
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