Making a Safety for a Crosman 22XX/13XX

Looked at the safety on the Crosman 22XX guns many times and marveled at their simplicity and ease of use. For all it is and does, it's hard to make a case for something different. Nevertheless, I craved something else--probably because I have too many 22XX guns...

Started with a piece of 0.500" diameter 12L14 cold rolled steel.

Turned the body of the safety to 0.186".

And added two grooves for the ball bearing detent.

Turned down the end for the button head.

And cut off.



Test fit. Note: No trigger yet. Just eyeballing some dimensions, making sure it's reachable, and looking at it for a sense of balance and scale.



Started hand filing the notches.

Compared it to a stock Crosman safety and just filed away until everything matched up.

Uhhhh, done?

Test fit #2--with the trigger and sear installed.

OK, OK, so it's not done. The head was too plain. Clamped with some aluminum to protect the piece.

I didn't have a metal checkering file so I improvised with a thread restoring file. Used the 20 tpi side...

and patiently grooved the head.

Deepened the grooves with a small riffler file.

Test fit #3...

Blued with Van's.





Installed the safety (actually the entire grip frame) on a 2250 project gun.





It's a nice change from the standard safety and I like that it doesn't stand out. It looks just like the magazine release on old Colt series 70 .45 Gold Cups.

More stuff soon.