A "Cross Bolt Safety" is a long pin or bolt the slides across the trigger mechanism from left to right. This prevents the trigger from firing when it is set to SAFE (S) and must be pushed out of the way to Fire (F). The other types of safety's are called "pivot" and "slide." They all prevent the trigger from being pulled or the hammer from striking the bullet.
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The crossbolt safety on Winchester 94 has been introduced in 1992.
1952 was the first year that FN made Brownings with the cross bolt safety as standard. I have seen a few guns made in 51 with the cross bolt and I have seen at least one 1952 gun with a front trigger safety. Many of the older guns were converted by Browning to switch the front trigger safety to crossbolt. You can tell this if there is a slot in the front of the trigger guard. If the customer paid, he could have a new trigger guard installed along with the conversion, thus it is not possible to date a gun by the safety alone. FN continued the front trigger on their guns that they sold worldwide until the early 60's. These were not Browning Arms Co. guns
By this 4 digit number, the gun was made in 1904, but it would be an FN gun. Sure there isn't a Letter above or preceding the number? Cross Bolt safeties were introduced with some guns in 1951, and standard by 1952. Any Front trigger safety could be converted by the Browning service center to a cross bolt safety.
remove shifter boot/ 4 screws to floor board remove nut from cross bolt install nut on opposite side of cross bolt and tighten nut cross bolt is tapered, this will remove cross bolt
take off the safety. pull bolt back. pull triger and bolt slides out. take off the safety. pull bolt back. pull triger and bolt slides out.
The cross sectional area that's under shear. So if your shearing a bolt with a 1in diameter, it will be the cross sectional area of that bolt.
the safety switch, just behind the breach, next to the bolt, doubles as the bolt-release. with the gun unloaded, pull the bolt back and push the safety switch forward past the "fire" position. the bolt should then be released so that you can easily pull it out of the back of the gun.
Push the safety lever fully forward to dis-engage the bolt stop. Then the bolt can be removed rearward.
No, Browning never made a left handed auto-5. The cross bolt safety could however be converted to move left to right for lefties.
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