Win. M70 Push - tell me again...
...what's wrong with these rifles? Sometime back I read someone complaining about the extractor...I have one in 30-06 and it's no tackdriver, but it's brutally consistent with good hunting accuracy with anything I feed it. I like the function of the bolt, the safety, and the trigger is quite good - unmolested it's lighter than my remingtons. I also like that each fall when it goes to the range for brushup after a few months' rest, it requires exactly one shot to verify its clean barrel zero, and things don't wander from there.
Reason I'm asking - a thrashed one is for sale cheap in these parts, and I'm sort of looking for a rebarrel project.
Thoughts?
Thanks, gentlemen and ladies.
05 June 2002, 11:29
<Don Martin29>A friend that just started shooting bought a M-70 made about 1966 in .243. It shoots very well even when it's barrel is hot. I am impressed.
I did break the extractor on my dad's push feed M-70 by chambering a reload that had not been FL sized and then closing and trying to open a very tight bolt. When I did open it the broken extractor, spring and pin lay in the magazine. The dovetail part of the extractor is only .050" thick (same as the rim on a 30/06) but the extractor broke and not the case rim.
Winchester sent me a new one right away.
I don't have any push feed M-70's anymore.
06 June 2002, 02:12
Need Just 1 More GunVek,
There are a fair number of high-power competitors that like the push feed action for their rifles. These rifles shouldn't really be compared against the pre-64 type, but rather against the Rem 700 rifles.
If it's a good price, go for it.
06 June 2002, 02:55
sdgunslingerI like the push feed M-70 s . I have had three of them , all excellent shooters and flawless in feed and function . I also think it's a very slick action ........
06 June 2002, 14:13
jeffeossoget it.. rebarrel it, and do NOT use it as a DGR.
You can have tons of fun with it, and can get parts (stock, sights, barrel) etc, really easy
good hunting
jeffe