weird enfield safety

[woodchopper]

anyony ever see a safety like this

oh and more photos (rifle is for sale on ee)

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=726997

 

[rgg_7]

War expediant safety lever. Slab cocking was another. A Brit thing!

 

[millwright]

Gonna add that to your web page and update it a bit Mr Woodchopper?You could do a section on the short cuts they took to get the rifles out the door PDG

 

[woodchopper]

I have sever slab sided cocking hammers.

but I have never seen a safety like this one and I don't see it in my books. even the few war expedient safetys don't look anything like the one in the picture

 

[Rory McCanuck]

Some of that machining looks like it was done with an axe!
Lends it some character though.

 

[Donny Fenn1]

It looks like a hammer from a pistol, not saying it is that's just what it looks like.

 

[louthepou]

Got one like that as well, came on a dead sporter I recently got for parts. Wondering about it's origins too...

 

[wheaty]

Between British and Canadian No.4's there are about 7 variants of safeties...

 

[Nabs]

I saw that No 4 on the EE and I was amazed to see an Enfield that instantly reminded me of a mid 1940s Izhevsk made 91.30. Was this common for British No 4s during the wartime years ?

 

[cantom]

It looks like a hammer from a pistol, not saying it is that's just what it looks like.

I was thinking that too, the safety looks like a bobbed 1911 hammer. I've never seen one like it.

Interesting rifle, very, very war expedient. Yes, it's like one of the beaver chewed Mosins.

Can you imagine what it would be like working in a factory on which bombs can fall at any moment?
Bottom line at that time would be to get as many functional rifles out the factory door as possible.

 

[woodchopper]

I was thinking that too, the safety looks like a bobbed 1911 hammer. I've never seen one like it.

Interesting rifle, very, very war expedient. Yes, it's like one of the beaver chewed Mosins.

Can you imagine what it would be like working in a factory on which bombs can fall at any moment?
Bottom line at that time would be to get as many functional rifles out the factory door as possible.

Looks like they trained beavers to chew metal and make receivers

I've got one or two that have rough machineing marks like that.

perhaps it was the night shift, with a black out, making recievers with hand tools, hammers and chisels