[dovehunter]

Most of my doubles - both SxS and O/U - have manual safeties and none are target models. In fact, between my son and I, the only doubles of either persuasion we have with automatic safeties are a couple of Stevens model 311. You are right though, at least based on our guns, that many doubles of either persuasion have stiff safeties until you have worked them several thousand times.