Yesterday I picked up a Mdl 70 at a show that I can't quite pin down the specific model on. The details:

Post 64 push feed action
20" barrel
No iron sights
Caliber: .257 Roberts
Injection molded synthetic stock with Winchester recoil pad
Matte black metal finish
Hinged floor plate
Serial # G2084XXX

It appears to be close to one of the Post 64 "lightweight" or "compact" versions, but I can't find anything in any of the books I have that shows those versions in that specific caliber. It looks to have never been fired and came with a Leupold 6X M8 Compact (definitely not new though) scope mounted on it. It's a nice light compact setup that should work well for one of my kids.

Anyone have any ideas on the specific model this might be?

i had one exactly like this abt 10 yrs ago. likewise, i never quite figured out precisely which variation it was supposed to be as it didn't exactly match any, at least the ones in gun digest. winchester was cranking out a bewildering variation of m70's back then (like remington 700's since that time) and my suspicions were it was left over parts cobbled together into a "variation" to clean out their bins. i bought it because i was in between 257's and it was a decent enough rifle but i didn't care for the short barrel. my serial # was G20785XX.

roger

Anything stamped on the barrel? Like "Lightweight" or "Compact"?
What is the muzzle diameter?
Sounds very similar to a .243 I bought for "my future ex-wife to be". Except hers had a wood stock. Hers was a Win M70 Lightweight Carbine. Very nice little gun and very accurate as well.

Sounds like a synthetic stock throw on afterwards, when you could buy an action and barrel from Winchester....without a stock...

I have a pretty new Win CRPF in .25-06 that I won at a RMEF(or should I say RMWolfF) banquet that is not a match to any model I could find. It has a matte black finish on the metal, Realtree camo synthetic stock, but a 24" barrel. It is supposed to be a SS barrel but I can't tell. Mine is a pretty good shooter. It makes for a good knock-around too because it won't be a collectible. Nate

I believe that the rifle you have described was a non-cataloged limited run made sometime between 1985 and 1995. I thought of them as being something along the lines of the Lightweight Carbines that Winchester/USRA cataloged in the middle to late 1980s, with the exception of being matte finished and having a synthetic stock, rather than being polished blue and having a walnut stock.

Jeff