Do NH Mod 70 classic actions fit well in FN SC mod 70 stocks? I'm more interested in the wood stocks. The triggers are different so I'm guessing some inleting might be needed. How dimensionaly close are the two actions? Thanks
Matt

The actions, besides the trigger block, are identical. The bottom metal, however, is not the same, it has different inletting due to the FN one piece bottom metal.

Cheers.

Thanks for the info! I was beginning to think that I was going to be left hanging! This begs another question: Is SC bottom metal compatible with NH actions? If they are truly identical, then they should be compatible, right?
Matt

I'm interested in the answers. I purchased a M70 featherweight stock. It cam with a plastic insert incase I had the one piece base. Looks to me like you could simply glass in the needed area on a 2 piece inletted stock for the 1 piece.. Nothing of the insert shows.

So unless I'm missing something you could take a 1 piece stock and open the inletting for a 2. If you have a 2 piece then you would simply need to glass under the bottom metal.

What am I missing. I'm a novice when it comes to the M70.

Matt, I think the only differences between the NH and SC rifles are the MOA trigger and the barrel thread pitch. As far as I understand everything else is the same. Maybe someone else might know. I've handled the SC guns and they look just fine. Better finished than the 3 NH guns I have for sure.

The 1-piece bottom metal on the SC M70s is the same as 1-piece bottom metal on NH Classic M70s. The NH Classic Safari Express and Supergrade models used 1 piece bottom metal. I have swapped the 1-piece bottom metal between the SC and NH rifles with no problem, The NH Classic Sporter model, and I think the NH Featerweights, with the 2-piece bottom metal is another story, it is shorter, more narrow around the action screws, and requires shallower inletting.