I always liked the look of the Win 70s with heavy barrels and Marksman style stocks, and now I kinda have one.
This started back in 2020 when I bought an M70 in a funky 80s generic style stock.
The stock was a euro style generic one, with some plastic and some metallic adjustable stock components. As 80s as it looked it actually felt really comfortable to shoot, and worked well for about 2 years, until one day I was juggling guns around in the safe, leaned this one up against the wall and then watched it fall over. That was it, the stock snapped as shown.
It seemed a good time to take one of the best shooting rifles I have ever owned, and make it old-school-y.
I already knew the old stock was... interesting.
Bubble gum looking bedding, a mag body that was from a cut down M14 mag body, a piece of pine or spruce as a mag spacer etc, so I had already rebuilt the mag, and other parts with proper factory components, so just needed a new stock.
I ended up buying a marksman style stock from Richards Microfits, as well as a new trigger, and got the stock finished, bedded and pillar bedded, and slapped the rifle together.
All in the stock and work came to about 700CDN, but the change was worth it.
So after more than a year sitting completed and un-shot, I finally got it out, and once again it shot like a laser. I genuinely wish I could shoot this rifle as well as it deserves, but I cant. That said I still managed OK groups, but man this thing still shoots amazingly, I used to use cheap 168gr match, and it did one hole group, this time I splurged and bought some Lapua 167s, and still pretty amazing.
This started back in 2020 when I bought an M70 in a funky 80s generic style stock.
The stock was a euro style generic one, with some plastic and some metallic adjustable stock components. As 80s as it looked it actually felt really comfortable to shoot, and worked well for about 2 years, until one day I was juggling guns around in the safe, leaned this one up against the wall and then watched it fall over. That was it, the stock snapped as shown.
It seemed a good time to take one of the best shooting rifles I have ever owned, and make it old-school-y.
I already knew the old stock was... interesting.
Bubble gum looking bedding, a mag body that was from a cut down M14 mag body, a piece of pine or spruce as a mag spacer etc, so I had already rebuilt the mag, and other parts with proper factory components, so just needed a new stock.
I ended up buying a marksman style stock from Richards Microfits, as well as a new trigger, and got the stock finished, bedded and pillar bedded, and slapped the rifle together.
All in the stock and work came to about 700CDN, but the change was worth it.
So after more than a year sitting completed and un-shot, I finally got it out, and once again it shot like a laser. I genuinely wish I could shoot this rifle as well as it deserves, but I cant. That said I still managed OK groups, but man this thing still shoots amazingly, I used to use cheap 168gr match, and it did one hole group, this time I splurged and bought some Lapua 167s, and still pretty amazing.
