I’ve posted a few times about a Model 98 Rick Steinhour at Xtreme Rifle Works twisted a 358 barrel on for me, and while I’ve had the gun for over a year and rust blued it, set it in an older CZ sporter stock, recut the checkering and all; my wife, for Christmas, “gave” me the money to have a Model 70-style safety installed on the shroud. This was a two-position Wisner version, and Mike Martens, of Hermann, Missouri, fitted the shroud.
I just wanted to share that Mr. Martens did a very nice job, very quickly, and for what I considered to be a very nominal fee ($125). If you’re thinking about safety options with a scoped ‘98, and the Timney/Buehler style isn’t giving you heart palpitations (and it doesn’t, not for the prices they’re selling them for!), I’d recommend you inquire with him.
I don’t have any financial reason to recommend him, and I don’t think I can include a link, but searching Gunbroker for “Wisner safety” ought to let you find him. At any rate, like I said, the man did a nice job, the safety works, and I did have to do some tweaking to the cocking piece, but certainly not a lot - took the bolt down two times, chamfered the edge of the cocking piece, and the safety works well and is, well, safe. Bump test, sear test, trigger pulled and resets, all that.
I think many of us can agree the three position is preferable, but those are, to me, getting into some serious coin, and while I surely use the safeties on all my guns, safe gun handling is the “real” safety. This two position seems well built and Mr. Martens was a pleasure to deal with. That, to me, was a nice change from some of the “customer service” we often deal with these days.
Hope this helps someone-
Cree