Did Winchester or Remington or anyone out there make a rifle with a tang safety? Seems like the a great idea. We are always extolling the benefits of the "3 position" safety and I never really liked it.

Browning

Steyr. My scout rifle has one. Also my Sauer 90 and I am prety sure the Colt Sauer does as well.
As do some of teh later savage 99's.

Savage Model 1920, made from 1920 to 1928 approx., in .300 and .250-3000.

Merkel has a tang safety on thier KR1 rifle.

And I share your opinion on the 3 pos safeties...

My .270 Johann Springer has one.

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
Browning

Yep, I've got a Browning A-bolt that has a tang safety.

A tang-mounted safety is one of the handiest and quickest locations and is equally accessible to either right or left-handed shooters. Too bad that more rifle manufacturers haven't seen fit to adopt this excellent design.

You can add the old Mossberg 810 series to the list (also sold as Western Auto's Revelation and M. Ward rifles).

Voere also put tang safeties on Mauser 98 actions that they built into sporters.

Daniel Fraser did the same.
I think on the Mausers they are intended to be used as a stalking safety since they only bolt the trigger and not the firing pin as the bolt safety does.

Ruger #1's have a tang safety.

Sauer

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Originally posted by Huvius:
Daniel Fraser did the same.
I think on the Mausers they are intended to be used as a stalking safety since they only bolt the trigger and not the firing pin as the bolt safety does.

Fraser Mauser bolt guns were built both ways (with tang safety or with conventional Mauser safety)...I don't know whether that was at two different price levels, or at each customer's option, but when I used to collect Frasers I found and bought them in both configurations.

All Savage bolt actions !

My Mossberg 810B has a Tang safety ) BB34

The last (post 1961) Mannlicher-Schoenauer had a tang safety also. Works great. Plus, they retains the original flag safety.

PH

Yep, all of my Browning rifles have them.