Anyone know about this side safety alteration?

Seller wont take the rifle out of tthe stock and check it for me. He says it appears to be the original military type trigger.

Was there some kind of add on safety like this, and how would it intall?

It doesnt look like a aftermarket Trigger/side safety combo, with that cut in the stock it looks like somekind of home made contraption.

first, it's a commerical mauser.. no thumcut and it has side peep sight screws

the big arch could mean it's a block standard trigger.. and the shape of the trigger kinda of suggests that....


butw, I would imagine it's a worked "Standard" trigger...

it could be a "cigerette" rifle.. which kinda looks like a quild rifle, but was put together in german backyards after ww2

jeffe

Jeff, Its a Husqvarna 640, FN commercial action. I have 2 already and the trigger appears to be the Same. Its a single stage mauser trigger. I shouldnt have said military. They were made with either a FN type safety lever(like JC higgins) or a standard mauser safety. This one has 2 safetys someone added that side safety

That screw in the stock is a repair someone did cause the stock cracked

Looks like some kind of added on safety only. Some one also cut that knotch in that original beech stock

Rick

Cool.. you are way closer to that one than me..
I would expect it's either a "guild" looking blocked standard trigger or an aftermarket.. I've seen that arched safety button on a couple otherwise nice rifles and passed.. then i built the electric beaver to make my own stocks, so they are fair game again

jeffe

If the guy won't let you take it out of the stock to look at it, pass on it. I looked at a rifle in a pawnshop two weekends ago that looked like it had double set triggers originally, except one had been removed. Even after putting a little pile of cash on the counter, the guy wouldn't let me spend five minutes with a screwdriver to look at the action out of the stock...so I passed.

If the seller won't let you have a look, there may be something wrong with it he's not telling you about. Were I you, I'd move onto the next neat rifle and let this one be...

Added-on side safetys seem to be fairly common on the early commercial Husqvarna rifles, both the 96 and 98 action guns. Unfortunately, every one seems to be different so it is hard to say just how a particular one works.

If I owned the rifle I would scrap that safety and the beech stock. Just wondered how the safety was attached . Ive seen them before like SBHVA said. If a hole was drilled and tapped to hinge it to block the mauser trigger. Maybe the darn thing is screwed to the stock!!