Finely got a Winchester 03 .22 Win Auto

[rcathey]

That is a neat rifle. What is the knob in the trigger hosing for?
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That would be the safety.
Like your Winchester, it’s very clear the designer was purposefully making a sleek design. Tucking the safety into trigger guard was one more bit of streamlining!

That’s why I love these old firearms. From a design standpoint you can usually go, “yeah, I see what they were doing here.”