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How to identify Mauser safetys?

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21 November 2022, 03:43
ghostrider272
How to identify Mauser safetys?
Hoping someone can help me out. Found what I believe is a Mauser safety in the parts box. I can't find a pic like it in my searches. I can't get pics to post here, but would like to find it a good home since I don't have any Mausers.
21 November 2022, 05:56
dpcd
Mauser Military safety?
Not worth the shipping cost. I have a box full of them because they aren't used on sporters. Here is a pic of 98 Mauser safeties; ice yours like this?


21 November 2022, 06:14
ghostrider272
It looks almost exactly like them. I'll just toss it since there's no value. Appreciate the help!
21 November 2022, 06:39
dpcd
Keep it! Never throw anything away. Never know when you need one.
21 November 2022, 18:12
Jim Kobe
quote:
Originally posted by dpcd:
Keep it! Never throw anything away. Never know when you need one.


If you run out, I have another couple dozen to spare


Jim Kobe
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Bloomington MN 55437
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22 November 2022, 02:53
Bobster
$7+ @ Numrich

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/products/769990


quote:
Originally posted by ghostrider272:
It looks almost exactly like them. I'll just toss it since there's no value. Appreciate the help!

22 November 2022, 19:24
Fal Grunt
Any Mauser parts, take offs, etc, you guys want to sell, send me an email.

Mauser safeties span a wide range. Most are worthless. Some are worth a few bucks.


Nathaniel Myers
Myers Arms LLC
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I buy Mauser actions, parts, micrometers, tools, calipers, etc. Specifically looking for pre-WWII Mauser tools.
22 November 2022, 19:47
richj
nice pieces to test your bluing on
22 November 2022, 22:33
dpcd
I'm thanking of welding some wires to them and making them earrings.
23 November 2022, 03:13
yumastepside
They would look lovely on you Tom...

Roger
23 November 2022, 03:13
Bobster
I had once thought of modifying them, using them as floorplate release levers for custom Mausers.
23 November 2022, 04:18
dpcd
Very funny Rog!
23 November 2022, 10:56
Atkinson
I saw one reshaped and checkered and extended a bit and it worked and looked nice, but not anything Id be interested in on my guns, a good safety for a mauser is pretty inexpensive from Brownells short of a 3 pos Mod 70 type..


Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
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Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

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24 November 2022, 21:09
Kolo-Pan
How much are the FN ones worth?


KJK
24 November 2022, 21:47
dpcd
FN military 98 safety?
Worth nothing since I give them away.
25 November 2022, 17:03
Kolo-Pan
Not the military ones. The ones that work on the left side of the shroud and allow scope use.


KJK
02 December 2022, 23:21
F. Guffey
quote:
Originally posted by Bobster:
$7+ @ Numrich

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/products/769990


quote:
Originally posted by ghostrider272:
It looks almost exactly like them. I'll just toss it since there's no value. Appreciate the help!


Bobster, I have a different appreciation for the Mauser Safety. I understand they are period correct and the rifle will fire when the safety is released if not set correctly. The world is filled with worthless information; a Mauser shooter called and said he went to the firing range with a safety, he claimed when he got home the safety was missing. He wanted me to convince him that was not possible. It took time to convince him swapping bolt parts between Peruvian Mausers and other Mausers will allow the safety fall out ever time the rifles is stacked with the barrel pointed to the sky.

And then there is that problem of setting the safety after cocking, most Mausers fire with the safety set on the left side. I have found Mausers that required the firing pin to be pulled back before the safety would engage.

F. Guffey

As old Floyd said; What is it to me this noisy ride.
03 December 2022, 01:09
richj
years of accumulated stuff.