Safety Whatzit

[beezapilot]

Bought a box of loading supplies with some mystery metal. Anyone know what it goes to? Does it look functional, or a candidate for the scrap bin?
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[farmerjim]

Looks likea thumb safety from a military stile bolt action.

[G W Wade]

Agree with Farmer Jim. Just do not kowe which one but sure someone here will. GW

[JSnover]

It's a 1903 Springfield safety

[fastdadio]

It's a 1903 Springfield safety

Exactly what I thought also.

[Winger Ed.]

It's a 1903 Springfield safety

That's my call on it too.
With the sort of roughish finish, I'd guess it to be from a war production era Springfield 03A3.
At a glance, it looks new and will work just fine.

There are after market safeties available that will work without hitting the bottom of a scope.
It might be a left over from someone installing one of those as part of a sporterizing project.
In the late 50s and into the 60s, the market was flooded with surplus rifles.
The 03s were prime projects to sporterize. Plenty of unissued ones were available.
A bunch were even rechambered to the new wildcat--- .300WinMag.

[beezapilot]

Thank you, Gentlemen!