thanks, guys. the picture helped. That is the way I did it the second time. Now the safety will slide all the way back and forward no problem. However, I cannot set the safety screw long enough to even come close to the safety bar. I dang-near screwed so deep it would have dropped right out of it's hole.

For target, that might not be a problem, but obviously there's something not right here.

This was a new Trophy Hunter XP model. I wonder if the safety bar is different, dang-near everything else is.