I get your point which is an interesting one. You would think the process of milling the safety slot would simply be omitted vs completed and then filled in. I blew the pics up on paint to 4000 pixels and I can see a line on the VH which could "possibly" be a filled in slot, possibly to my eyes. Concerning the CHE I am just not seeing it. What am I missing ? Did you use some other method on paint possibly that would make it clearer to my eyes ?

Randy. The VH is filled in.

I have observed a couple frames that had no slot. But the cast majority of safety-delete guns have filled-in slots.

Paint has very limited editing options - that's really not its function

and JPGs generally do not have the detail to allow much sharpening or editing -

if you want to try to clean up an image there are free photo editors such as GIMP or PhotoScape X that will allow you to get as much as possible from a JPG - but again - what can be done without the base detail is limited and they take a while to learn

The red arrow is pointing at the right front corner of the slot.

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Below the tip of the arrow one can see the whole straight front edge of the slot.

On Remingtons they used a different trigger spring and the head of the stock was solid on the no safety guns. I've never seen the inside of a righteous Fox or Parker Bros. no safety gun, so would like to hear from some gunsmiths/stockers on what they have observed on the inside.

Good eye Dave, now I see it clearly.

Thirty years as an "Intelligence Research Specialist, Imagery Analyst".

Hmmm sounds like someone that may very well have been at headquarters in Langley once upon a time :whistle: