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Model 14 or 14.5 pump. Please explain a "Thumb Nail Safety"? Thanks [:)]


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  • dennis53
    I have a Stevens 340 in 30-30 that has a thumbnail safety. It is a thin piece of metal parallel to the receiver on the top right-hand side. To take the gun off safe, merely push the metal piece forward with the back of your right thumbnail. I like it because it is the most quiet safety I have used. I have not seen the Remington thumbnail, but perhaps it is similar.

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  • Ronald J. Snow
    ATF: Go to www.findarticles.com, in the Advanced Searches type in Remington Model 14 and look in "free articles only". There is a good article there that explains what you are looking for. Ron
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  • bigcountry_75214
    The thumb nail safety is considered to be rare, less than 20% of rifles, and carries a premium. Collectors of the Remington pump rifles consider these "keepers".[:p]
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  • highthrill
    One of the most unusual variations has what was called the "thumbnail safety." Both models began life with a push button safety at the rear of the trigger guard but for reasons that arc positively mysterious the safety was moved to the bolt in the form of a slide that went up and down. It was grooved to be easily moved with a fingernail.

    When the safety was pushed down the word "safe" was visible on the bolt. And just to make life fun for collectors they also made some guns with the normal safety also but some had that hole blocked it still looked like the safety but didn't move. In order to make the thumbnail safety more accessible there was a small clearance cut at the bottom of the receiver ejection port. And, you guessed it, we see guns with the clearance cut and normal bolts.

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  • highthrill
    Additional info:

    It is estimated that the thumbnail safety was only produced for a year or two between 1919 and 1920. That really was a bad idea so it didn't last too long and, having tried to use one, I cannot imagine anyone being able to operate the thing easily or with any speed. That may even lend credence to one story about why they made the thumbnail safety in the first place. We know that the Remingtons were popular with law enforcement and prisons so the legend goes that the thumbnail safety was made so thai if a prisoner got a guard's gun he would not know how to work it.

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  • ATF
    Thank You all for the info,Ron Snow good link Thanks ! [:)] [:)]

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  • Ronald J. Snow
    You are quite welcome sir. RJSnow
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