It's a little more complicated than that.
First, in about 1940 my dad managed to shoot himself with a Model 92 carried with the hammer in the half cock position. He was on a tractor and the carbine slipped off and on the way down the hammer struck a something on the way down. It sheared the quarter cock notch and fired the round, hitting him just under the rib cage on his left side and exiting through the upper shoulder. Even with a sucking chest wound he walked a mile and a half back home, and then it took another hour or so to get him to a doctor.
That has had an impact on how I choose to carry various weapons.
With the Model 92, a firing pin safety like the bolt mounted "pigtail" safety used by Rossi would have prevented that accident - provided it did not get bumped, jiggled or vibrated off of the "safe" position. I noted within a few days of buying my first Rossi 92 with a pigtail safety that it was very prone to getting moved off of "safe". Consequently, while it might seem counter intuitive given my dad's experience, I removed the pig tail safety on my Rossi.
My opinion on any safety device is that if you can't rely on it, you're far better off without it. The reasoning here is pretty simple. If you know a gun is loaded, ready to fire and not on safe, you're far more likely to treat it with a great deal more caution and respect. In that regard thinking a gun is on "safe" can breed complacency and result in an accident like my dad's.
What I also did however was add a tang sight. I put them on my lever guns anyway as it's a faster and more precise sighting system that is more amenable a wide range of light conditions, but given that it stands up behind the hammer and only pivots forward about 30 degrees or so under an impact, it also will protect the hammer from the kind of impact that resulted in my dad shooting himself.
Shown below is a Rossi 92 with the hammer at quarter cock. with the hammer upright and knocked forward as far as it will go. In order to strike the hammer, the rifle would have to fall and strike an object within a much narrower arc and strike with much more force given the horizontal and vertical vectors involved, or it would have to strike the sight hard enough to break it, which would most likely deflect the rifle. It's not perfect, but it does reduce some of the risk of dropping a rifle carried on the quarter cock notch.
The moral of the story here though is to never rely on a safety system but rather always assume a weapon is cocked and unlocked on a loaded chamber and follow the four basic rules of gun safety:
1. All guns are always loaded
2. Never point the gun at anything you don't want to kill or destroy
3. Keep your finger (and everything else) off the trigger until the sights are on target.
4. Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it.
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When hunting, you'll want to reduce the rather loud click you get with a Model 92 when moving the hammer to full cock. You can do that by putting your thumb securely over the hammer and easing it off the quarter cock notch, then while still controlling the hammer, pull the trigger to the rear and hold it there until the hammer is all the way back, then release the trigger and ease the hammer down onto the sear. Done properly you can move it to full cock with virtually no sound at all.
Obviously, since you are pulling the trigger during this operation, you'll want to ensure you're still following the four rules outlined above.