According to Brian Pearce in the new Rifle Magazine. Front half knurled and rear part with bolt handle and extraction cam is pressed on and swaged and brazed. I looked at mine and also the Montana 1999 action, and they both look like they are the same.. tiny parting line just ahead of bolt handle.. Who works on these? thanks Les

This is true. My M70 in .404j stripped the knurling just before my buffalo trip. Fortunately I have a great gunsmith who fixed it in a day, silver soldered it back together.

No way. All the fuckin experts on here claim one piece.

Mine looks like it has a join line just behind the locking lugs, and another just in front of the bolt handle. (76 era)

They are two piece. The bolt handle is cast in Canada at Alpha castings, and you can see their company mark cast into the handle, looks like a little infinity mark.

I wouldn't worry too much about it though, if you look at the back of the bolt with the firing pin assembly removed, you can see that they fit together like gears. I would take that over soldered on handles any day.

Aaron

Maybe Aaron, but mine stripped, now it's properly silver soldered never to be removed w/o heat.

I always assumed that Neo-Winnie was a 3-piece brazed unit, one learns something new every day.

This illustrates the 3rd corollary of Murphey's law-if it can break it will at the most inopportune time and in a fashion calculated to tbe the most espensive to repair.

Sledder put me onto a very nice guy here in Wyoming that now has my bolt veed out and heli-arc welded ready for return shipping.. for about $40 plus return insured shipping.. leaving for a grizz/dall hunt in Alaska in three weeks... Les