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1. The bolt-locking safety. It would be nice to be able to cycle the bolt with the safety on.
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I have the opposite opinion. I don't like rifles having two-position safeties where the bolt remains unlocked when the safety is "on". I've had the bolt handle become disengaged with rifles like this (i.e., later Remington Model 700s) while hunting in close brush, rendering the rifle inoperable until the bolt was closed again. There is nothing inherently unsafe about using the floorplate to release all the cartridges from the magazine when unloading a rifle that has a bolt locked while on "safe" and extracting the round in the chamber with the safety off and the rifle pointed in a safe direction.
The best safeties, imo, are the ones having three positions, as found on the Savage Model 110, the Winchester Model 70 and Ruger MKII bolt-action rifles.