doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com Anyone reconize this tang safety and Rifle?

This is early Winchester Model 70 that was converted to a tang safety. There is also a sliding lock that locks the bolt.
Marked on the side of the action below the wood line is "GMF 354"

I don't have any info, but IMO that particular conversion is the neatest I've ever seen! I seem to detect an add-on trigger finger-piece or perhaps a shoe; could this trigger have been fitted with a single-set device similar to the Canjar one? Even if not, it would be simple to accomplish.
Regards, Joe

I don't see anything simple about that set-up?!? But it is nicely done and I like the way the hook slides into/over the bolt handle in the upper right.
Canjar did make a tang safety conversion for Mauser rifles and this may be a M-70 version? As I remember, the tang extension was to be welded in place. I never installed one.

Does it still have a wing safety on the bolt sleeve?

Steve, the Canjar was available for a number of rifles with either a weld-on or a screw-on tang extension but this doesn't look like either Canjar to me. BTW Canjar at one time DID offer a replacement M70 trigger finger-piece with fully-adjustable sear engagement and this may well be one of them.

Here's a pic of a Canjar for a 1903 Springfield with screw-on tang extension. The weld-on looks the same except for the attachment. A LOT simpler than the one in Michael's photos!
IMO Canjar made by far the nicest replacement triggers, period.
Regards, Joe

Joe - the nicest, when you could get them. I actually waited just over five years for two Krag set triggers, paid for in advance and supposed to be delivered in six weeks. Am so amazed at finally getting them that they have been sitting here two more years without being fitted to rifles. From time to time open the drawer and admire them. Thinking of framing them and puting them up on the wall.

The bolt has a hole in it for the hook. The bolt sleeve looks like a Remington, everything removed. Here are a couple pictures of the rifle. A really nice post war rifle in 25-06 with a Bliss Titus barrel. A friend here in Anchorage just got the rifle and I'm trying to help figure out who made it.

Interesting angled loading port relief ... probably a clue?
Not showing the bolt?
Nice wood, and toothbrush!

What is the knurled quadrant shaped button in the top left of the second picture, a bolt release?

Anderson Gun Shop in Yakima Washington did tang safety conversions on model 70's and advertized in the later 1940's in American Rifleman (I've seen ads from 1947). I have one but the tang is just behind the original receiver end and not large at all. I tried to take the action out of the stock a few years ago for pictures but the screws were tight and I didn't want to mess them up so I never got it out. I could send pictures but am not savy enough to post on the net.
Brad

Brad,

If you send the pictures to me I'll post them for you.
mjpetrov@acsalaska.net