Trick to Safety on Husqvarna Commercial FN98

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Okay, I finally got my 30-06 from Tradex. Very happy, just as described. Here's the problem though. The rifle is a 1951 vintage.

I took the Husqvarna out this last weekend for sighting in. We found a good clearcut for sighting in. I got the Husky all set up in the gun-holder for my first shot. Pulled the trigger, click, but no "BANG!" My buddies all harassing me, "Wow, that is the quietest 30-06 ever. No kick at all."
So I took the rifle out of the holder and pulled the bolt back. At the end of the bolt there is this little piece of metal that turned very easily and then locked in such a way that I now couldn't reinsert the bolt to try again. I spent about 30-35 minutes trying to get that (insert expletive here) thing to turn back into the position it had so easily turned from. Finally I got it. Then I saw what the problem was. Somehow or other this piece at the back of the bolt holds the firing pin from actually connecting with the cartridge. By this point my buddies were sighted in and ready to go and I was ready to beat my rifle into a ploughshare. We headed off again looking for grouse.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to:
a) work the safety?
b) get the firing pin to engage (I suspect this is related to question a)
 
Thanks, Ringo. That site was very helpful. The safety is facing to the left and I don't know of any way to get it to face up or to the right.
 
When the bolt on a 98 is taken out of the rifle, it is cocked ie. the cocking piece is protruding from the end of the bolt by about 3/4". It sounds like you've somehow un-cocked the bolt on yours in which case the cocking piece isn't protruding. If this is the case, there's no way the bolt's going back into the rifle until it's re-cocked.

Does this sound right? If so, it's an easy fix that I can walk you through. If not, well????
 
This is what it looks like on mine right now, except for the fact that the bolt is in the rifle.
It looks exactly like the picture at the top of the page.
 
The picture on the top shows the bolt in the fired, safety off position. The bolt should be in this position only in the closed position. If the bolt is lifted, the striker should be in the cocked position. The safety, that little piece of metal you were messing with, has 3 positions. The left position is fire, the center position holds the striker allows you to strip the bolt, and the right position is safe.
 
Yeah, I have this horrible feeling mine is jammed. It stays facing left whether I have the bolt in or out.
 
If the cocking piece - the back end of the firing pin - is flush with the bolt sleeve, the firing pin is not cocked. The cocking piece must be pulled back, as shown in those photos, and the bolt sleeve twisted until the cocking piece is held back. You will see the nose of the cocking piece, and the cam track in the bolt which controls it. Once it is in the proper position, the bolt should go into the rifle. At this point the safety should be able to turn from the left side over to the right. If the rifle is cocking and clicking, and the safety cannot move, there is a problem.
 
Houston, we have a problem. My safety will not move. Grrrr. This Husky is supposed to take a deer down next weekend.
 
If a Mauser wing safety won't rotate, the repair can be nothing more complicated than a slight adjustment to either the safety or the cocking piece. Probably because of wear, the safety cam cannot engage the cocking piece to cam it back.
 
I think you may be one turn shy of the correct position. The key to this, is getting the cocking piece to engage the sear for the safety to move. Remove the bolt from the rifle, You must pull back on the cocking piece, use the edge of a wooden bench and move the safety to the 12 o'clock position. Not your good dining table! There is a pin in the shroud that butts up to the receiver when the bolt is in. With the bolt in your hand (separate from the rifle) depress this pin and turn the shroud clockwise (tightening) until the shroud 'seats' against the bolt handle. Reinsert the bolt into the (unloaded)rifle, from the 12 o'clock position, place the safety in the 3 o'clock position (rifle will be locked up, bolt handle will not move) 12 o'clock (rifle will cycle, but not fire) and 9 o'clock position (it should go click, fire).

Figure 4 and Figure 5 are what you should do to get the cocking piece and safety into alignment, then check you shroud position. I suspect as your rifle didn't go bang, the firing pin is not engaging the primer.
 
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Thanks all, you were correct. I took it in to the local gunsmith a few blocks away just to be sure. He did all that you just suggested. It was good to be able to see it up close and personal though. It turned out the bolt was rather gummed up too and needed a good cleaning.
He said it was a good thing it hadn't actually fired as with the little gap that was there I would have "looked a lot crispier than I did" due to the gases that would be firing back at me. Lovely.
I also realize now that the safety will never actually get to 3 o'clock due to the sight that is on the firearm. The best I can hope for is high noon.
 
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