is this normal for a model 70?

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this is my first model 70 so I am not overly familiar with them. have a look at the machining marks on the pics. they seem severe to me. all other areas of the rifle seem well finished. bolt looks great. barrel looks great. just on the bottom of the bolts raceway or whatever its called. the bolt cycles very smooth. no binding. the trigger quickly adjusted to a crisp 3 pounds. it came out of the box at 4 pounds. I did not check how light it would go as 3 pounds is perfect for me. would you just accept the machining marks as is or send it to Winchester? if this is more or less the way they are them im perfectly fine with it. if this is not normal I want it fixed.
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OP, My Extreme Weather had the same marks shown in your first pic. None of the others though.
 
double gun said:
I would rather have the first one with some broaching marks than the second one that was "cleaned up" with an endmill.



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X2, cleaned up alright! Here's what he had to say, "Both of my EWs have obvious machining marks on the feedramp, bolt raceway and near the sear slot. Here's the .300 Win Mag. I had to file and polish the bolt raceway at the front of the ejection port to stop the bolt from banging/jumping on closing.". What causes the marks to be so bad on some examples? Operator error? Don't know much about machining, only even used a tubing broach.
 
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j_06 said:
x2, read my op the guy said he couldn't close the bolt! Cleaned up alright lol. What causes the marks to be so bad on some examples? Operator error? Don't know much about machining, only even used a tubing broach.
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I had missed that part. As for the marks? Dull broach, lack of cutting oil, poor chip clearance - who knows. But when you're cranking them out in a production line I doubt anyone was too concerned about tooling marks. Lol
 
Stainless is terrible for picking up and galling like that, especially with an operation such as broaching, counter boring or undercutting where proper application of lube/coolant are hard and when the tool starts to dull just a bit it gets worse.

I have the identical rifle and the rib has some slight scoring, bolt cut through the receiver looks the same and the machining marks where the barrel screw in are present on most of the rifles in my safe. My concern level is zero due to them being on surfaces not visible when the bolt is closed and have zero effect on anything. Is the rest of the rifle A-OK cosmetically on the outside? My M70 EW is pretty much perfect other that a few machine marks internally like yours.

It is nothing worth fixing as there is nothing wrong at all other than the broach cut a few thousandths deeper on your rifle than someone else's.

I've seen much worse scoring in the bolt cut out on Howas/Vanguards in stainless before.
 
If it's anything like mine it will not be picky. Federal blue box, fusion, and my handloads all print MOA ish(I'm out of practise) and all hit to the same POI which is great to keep sight in simple.
 
The older m70 safeties don't make near the noise that the new stainless m70s do
It is a good safety however the noise is excessive
 
If you "flip" a safety off they all will make some amount of noise. Slowly moving the lever to "fire" eliminates noise in most safetys. Model 70's can be moved from rear to middle position and then to fire with little noise. Flipping from rear position to fire in one move will surely make noise.
 
madashell said:
Remington are not the only one in a race to the bottom ...
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I've owned a couple few Remingtons and have never seen machining that terrible.
No offense to the O.P. but those marks on the top of the rails look like dogsh$t whether functionality is compromised or not.
No excuse for a 1200$ rifle to be placed in the box at the factory looking like that.
 
Currently I only own stainless rifles. I have a X - bolt stainless stalker , Remington XCR 2 and a stainless Remington mountain rifle.

When I went to pick up my Mountain Rifle in 7-08 they also had the Winchester extream weather but not in the Caliber I wanted so I went with the 700.

The Winchester does look a bit rough but I have only heard good things about the newer model 70 guns. The entire reason I switched to synthetic stalked stainless rifles is because I intend to hunt them in all sorts of conditions. No wood dings or barrel scuffs to worry about.

I do agree that for the price it would be nice if they were cleaned up a bit...but would not let it bother me too much.

You don't see many on the EE so people must be enjoying them
 
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