Hope nobody minds a slightly off topic question.
Looking at the pictures I see a sort of across-the-back-of-the-bolt safety. Was that standard? At what point?
I ask because at one time I had a very early (SN = 6xx ... right, 3 digits) model 70 .375 which had the safety in the "normal" (today) position. I had a later, but sub 100,000 SN '06 which had the safety like the one in the picture. I don't own either anymore so it's not a big deal, but I'm curious if my .375 was original or if it'd been updated to the later safety at some point.
Thanks!
I guess to stay on topic, the 3rd M70 was a .257 Roberts ... but there was nothing "featherweight" about it, it was a heavy SOB.
Tom
