M98 bolt question

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AJB

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I have a full-length Mauser 98 bolt that does not have the two slight protrusions on the bolt face, on either side of the ejector slot. I have read that bolts made for barrels with the so called "safety breach" (apparently Yugos have those but, as I said, this is a full-length bolt so not a Yugo) do not have these protrusions but the rifle that this bolt came with (a rather bubba'ed homemade sporter) has the regular flat barrel face.
The bolt seems to feed, chamber and extract/eject cartridges just fine. My question is, is it safe the use this bolt in a non-safety breach rifle?
 
Thanks for taking an interest in this. The only marking I can find is at the bottom of the root of the bolt handle and, as this has a welded-on bolt handle, I'm not even sure it's the entire marking. I tried to include a couple of pics but for some reason this site says the file is too large for the server to process (Each pic is about 2.500KB so I don't understand why that's too large. I tried to do it as a Zip file but even that was apparently too large. Any clue how I can post pic on here?) As I said, it's a standard-length bolt.
 
Photo's have to be under 2mb.

I would need to know more information to determine whether it is safe or not, and whether the gun needs a safety breech or not. It really depends on how it was configured.
 
Here is what the bolt face looks like. The breech face of the barrel is the standard, flat breech. I checked head space and it closes on my "go" gauge but not on my "No Go" gauge. The way I see it is that the absence of those little "feet" really does not expose any more of the cartridge than on a bolt that has the "feet".
 

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