Does anybody know if any of the best-gun delivers ever made any mausers with tang-safeties? Any pictures?
Thanks,

As far as I'm concerned,if they did and quit they can start again anytime now! For ME it's the most natural to use safety on any rifle I've got(Ruger M77). My understanding is that Ruger gave it up as a manufacturing cost cut. I wonder if DG hunters ever used them and what they thought of them?

til later

ues as I recall the top makers did for a bit but I'll have to dig out my Speers book and check who and when...

Not necessarily best gun but maybe nice gun, and not really a tang safety, but in my opinion the next best thing to the original flag safety:
Emil Echoldts side safety made of horn:

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I didn't know there was such an animal, but I found an FN Mauser with a tang safety here:

Thanks, but this is a side safety, not a tang safety.

Bent
Years ago Mr Canjar made this trigger/tang extension for me, it wouldn't be hard to duplicate the extension portion.

I have in the shop right now a Ferlach barelled action that had a tang safety on it. Someone along the way removed it and converted it to the stadard tang and put in a three postion safety.

Yes, I have seen a number of tang safty Mausers over the years and some of those tangs extended up and over the comb..They were nice..Most were German guns, but also a few English guns..

Many of the german guns were produced with a side safty inletted in on the left side and worked in coordination with the original wing safties...

Some of those old Germans and Brits could make a round ball out of an anvel with a worn out file...

Jon Speed's 'Archives' shows an original Mauser with a tang safety but states it (the safety) was bought from another supplier and installed by Mauser at the request of the customer. I gather from this that Mauser did not offer their action with tang safeties and any installed would be aftermarket by the builder of the rifle.

I have a Franz Sodia Ferlach 257 Roberts built on a 98 Mauser with a tang safety that the pic's are posted on the NitroExpess.com site under post #91435.

m4220

I have a Mauser (98) in 500 Jeffery with a tang safety that my local gunsmith just made for me.
I'd post pictures, but it's at the stockmakers until September.

He welded (and shaped) an extension to the tang, and added the safety taken from a shotgun.
Even without bluing I can't tell where the original tang ended, and the new extension begins.

I think I am going to like this arrangement for buffalo hunting. It feels very instinctive.

Garrett

Garrett

That sounds like a sweet set-up. I look forward to seeing it.

Cheers,

André

Ray:

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Some of those old Germans Brits" could make a round ball out of an anvel with a worn out file...

Tailgunner I took the liberty of editing your image a bit to show some of the detail.

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Tailgunner I took the liberty of editing your image a bit to show some of the detail.

Not a problem.