I have seen some comments about the Gentry safties, so if they aren't up to scratch who makes a Left Hand 3 position safety for the mini Mauser and Remingto 700. I would like the mini Mauser ones in steel and the 700's in stainless.....Thanks Kiwi

You might like a right hand three position mod 70 type safety. They seem to be more ergonimiclly correct for lefties, and vice verse with with a left hand safety for righties.

I can say from my first time installing a Chapman safety from brownells that the instructions left a lot to be desired. It would have been better if drawn on a bar napkin and instructions scribbled on back.

But once I threw the instructions out and just measured it all up. the only information I used from the instructions was what cutters I should use.
So my advice get someone with some experience doing them with the correct fixtures and let them do it.

IMO, there's nothing wrong with the Gentry safeties--they're just not designed for installation by the inexperienced and/or untrained, and neither are any of the other ones.

One thing to know, if the ad says "drop in", it probably isn't.

To send the rifle to Gentry to have a safety fitted would be rather expensive......airmail from New Zealand to the US, export permit to get my rifle back along with the airmail shipping......probably cost me around US$400 plus the cost of the safety and fitting.
So not really an option.....Thanks anyway.

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Originally posted by 22WRF:
In reading comments about Gentry safeties it seems that those who have Gentry install the safety comment favorably about them, and those that installl them theirself or have someone else install it for them have mixed emotions about them.

Obviously, Gentry isn't going to send out a bad safety if he installs it.

If you want a Gentry safety send you gun to Gentry and have him install it!!!

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One thing to know, if the ad says "drop in", it probably isn't.

This would have to be the truest comment so far.....thanks John.

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Originally posted by Toomany Tools:
IMO, there's nothing wrong with the Gentry safeties--they're just not designed for installation by the inexperienced and/or untrained, and neither are any of the other ones.

One thing to know, if the ad says "drop in", it probably isn't.

Seems to be the same sentiment among a couple of gunsmiths I know as well.

How many replying here have installed a LH Gentry MiniX safety?

Insert the sound of crickets here.

I'm sorry, did someone say that they did?

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Originally posted by gunmaker:
How many replying here have installed a LH Gentry MiniX safety?

And why do you ask old wizened one?

I'm not picking on anyone here.
The only Gentry I've worked on is a LH MiniX. That's the one Kiwi was asking about.
I was hoping to compare notes with someone else that's taken one on.

Not done one on the mini, my experience has been with the 98 Mausers, two for the record, second one done because I did not learn from the first. Both had timing problems. I won't do another.

I've installed three Gentry right handed 98's and the only problem I had was with a comercial cocking piece that just didn't quite work out right(Mark X). I typicaly recomend Ed's safties to clients, though I really have not had a bad experience with any makers.