I posted this in the medium bore section and was advised to post here also.

I have a winchester m70 featherweight.

I'm thinking a different barrel with open sights like these:





What's involved to turn it into an extremely reliable & light, sorta DGR?

Just some action/feeding work? I haven't read many reliability compliants about the model 70's trigger or safety.

I'll likely get a synthetic stock for it too. Straightening the bolt a good idea?

Any recommended smiths? (PM me if you don't want to say it here)

Please advise!

It should not need any action work. New barrel and sights only. I would not straighten the bolt handle. I did a similar conversion and did replace the bolt handle with an uncheckered Talley handle.

Own a Ruger that was rebarreled from 30 06 to 9,3x62 and it feeds perfectly without any changes.

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Originally posted by mrfudd:
It should not need any action work. New barrel and sights only. I would not straighten the bolt handle. I did a similar conversion and did replace the bolt handle with an uncheckered Talley handle.

I will probably replace the bolt handle with something straight and non checkered too.

Lose the four leaf sight.

NECG carries a recknagel sight that has one leaf rear sight that is adjustable. It works very well.

I have a Sako that has 9.3x66, 30-06 and 9.3x62 barrels (so far). Works fine.