Experience with aftermarket 3 position horizontal safety for M98

[Ontario Hunter]

Wisner also has safeties listed on Ebay. They are 190.00 if I remember correctly.

I thought Wisner only had their kits for 2-position safeties on Ebay? Those are for changing Mauser flag style safeties to 2-position safeties on side of existing bolt sleeve. Requires more sophisticated machining than I was capable of. But I seem to recall the kits were a lot cheaper than $190.

 

[roklok]

Mauser 98 3 position safety | eBay

A Precision machined unit that is left polished in the white for final finishing. The sleeve has been machined from pre heat treated steel, while the lever has been carefully heat treated and tempered for long life.

www.ebay.com

Here is what I believe is a Wisner 3 position on Ebay

 

[PanhandlinPat]

He has a website as well. If you call him they’re cheaper than on eBay. At least that used to be the case.

Wisner's Inc | Obsolete reproduction firearms manufacturer

 

[ftothfadd]

Thank you all! Very helpful. I emailed him

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Just thought I'd show our candidate a comparison between Wisner and Parkwest variety. Wisner has the maroon background (from their ebay ad). Parkwest is my rifle's safety. The Parkwest has rounded corners on right side aft end of bolt sleeve. Wisner has more metal removed from underneath left side of breech bolt. Not shown in photos but Wisner has thicker safety lever. Both utilize pressed in pins to hold the safety lever in place. Parkwest has solid pins (which I replaced with a piece of shaft of drill bit) and Wisner uses roll pin. As I recall Myers "Ed Lapour" design has a screw instead of pressed in pin. To remove or replace the pall and spring inside the bolt sleeve requires removing the screw in Myers safety. I'm not sure how or if those parts can be serviced in Parkwest or Wisner designs. I believe Winchester has a screw. I can see the pall hole for full safe in Wisner safety is visible when lever is in fire position. This tells me that the Wisner lever will be substantially further retracted when in full safe position ( = longer reach for thumb to grasp the safety when fully engaged).

 

[mdwest]

Just thought I'd show our candidate a comparison between Wisner and Parkwest variety. Wisner has the maroon background (from their ebay ad). Parkwest is my rifle's safety. The Parkwest has rounded corners on right side aft end of bolt sleeve. Wisner has more metal removed from underneath left side of breech bolt. Not shown in photos but Wisner has thicker safety lever. Both utilize pressed in pins to hold the safety lever in place. Parkwest has solid pins (which I replaced with a piece of shaft of drill bit) and Wisner uses roll pin. As I recall Myers "Ed Lapour" design has a screw instead of pressed in pin. To remove or replace the pall and spring inside the bolt sleeve requires removing the screw in Myers safety. I'm not sure how or if those parts can be serviced in Parkwest or Wisner designs. I believe Winchester has a screw. I can see the pall hole for full safe in Wisner safety is visible when lever is in fire position. This tells me that the Wisner lever will be substantially further retracted when in full safe position ( = longer reach for thumb to grasp the safety when fully engaged).
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Very helpful post. Thanks for putting the effort in on this. I’ve never done a side by side comparison of the two before.. there are more differences between them than I thought..