Ended up with a crappy Winchester M70 push feed

I've experienced scope failures during competitions, and once while hunting.
Leupold makes good QD mounts.
I'd rather use QD, than see throughs - these tend to position the scope too high. That can be a good thing if you are wearing a parka, but otherwise they might not be a good choice.
 
blargon said:
I'd rather have that M70 than an AB3. Have had pushfeed 70's in .308, .22-250, .243, &.300wby
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I'm in that same boat, i can always get another AB3, not going to find one of these too often.
It was more of a crack about how low priced the used push feed M70 market is, $500-$600 for pretty nice examples. I think they are pretty solid rifles, fantastic triggers that are easily adjusted, normally exceptional shooters, always hunting acceptable. The Featherweight label is a little misleading, but they are not exactly heavy or hard to carry.
Always been a 7mm fan...(except the 7-08, meh), 7x64 is my go to standard action cartridge, 7mm Rem is my Magnum, 7x57 I've had for about 10 years and it's nice shooting, with the other cartridges I don't really have any need to "overload" the 7x57, load it like my 6.5x55's in modern actions, not trying to make it a magnum, but not loading to Mauser 95 specs either.
This thing is going to serve me well, and it's right up my alley of classic discontinued pretty wood rifles.
For the push feed vs CRF thing, I could care less, with one exception, and it's an exception in CRF's anyway, a nice CRF '98 that operates and feeds as smooth as a pushfeed, that gives me wood lol, but hard to find, and expensive to make.
 
I guess I am "not in the loop". By AB3 are you meaning the Browning A-Bolt 3? As if, in some way, equivalent to a 197-whatever M70? I have not owned an A-Bolt of any variety, so I just do not know?
 
Potashminer said:
I guess I am "not in the loop". By AB3 are you meaning the Browning A-Bolt 3? As if, in some way, equivalent to a 197-whatever M70? I have not owned an A-Bolt of any variety, so I just do not know?
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Yeah, Browning AB3, the entry level Browning currently made, completely different rifle design, 3 lug 60 degree throw, well made rifles made in Japan, really nothing wrong with them at all, fit/finish is pretty solid, factory bedded, good solid synthetic stocks, detachable mags that are actually decent compared to the X-bolts, decent triggers, light, accurate rifles. FN owns both Winchester and Browning so there is some crossover today, the Winchester XPR uses the same bolt and receiver but claim it's made in "Portugal", little misleading to say the least, assembled may be more correct.
Still have an AB3 in 308 with walnut, they are $699-$799 type rifle new today, I paid less then that a few years ago when the $$ as par, I don't buy a lot of new production rifles, but was impressed enough with the 308 I grabbed a 270 as well.
 
My very first official deer rifle was kind of a pushfeed Winchester. A Cooey Model 71 in 30-06. I was sent for by a friend of a farmer to put down a deer it's feet tangled in a barbed wire fence. Yeah. Not very sporting. But I filled my freezer really easily with a tagged WT deer and the farmer was happy.
 
I've got a push feed M70, a Ranger .30-06 with the featherweight contour. Kicks like a beast but shoots and hunts real well. Great irons. Dad used it for 20 years before he handed it over

AB3's are great for what they are but it's something where if you regret the sale you can go out and get another pretty easily and it'll probably shoot great as well.
 
Hitzy said:
Yeah, Browning AB3, the entry level Browning currently made, completely different rifle design, 3 lug 60 degree throw, well made rifles made in Japan, really nothing wrong with them at all, fit/finish is pretty solid, factory bedded, good solid synthetic stocks, detachable mags that are actually decent compared to the X-bolts, decent triggers, light, accurate rifles. FN owns both Winchester and Browning so there is some crossover today, the Winchester XPR uses the same bolt and receiver but claim it's made in "Portugal", little misleading to say the least, assembled may be more correct.
Still have an AB3 in 308 with walnut, they are $699-$799 type rifle new today, I paid less then that a few years ago when the $$ as par, I don't buy a lot of new production rifles, but was impressed enough with the 308 I grabbed a 270 as well.
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I have an AB2 in 22 Hornet. Dandy little walking around varmint rifle. Dropped in a Timney after market trigger and a medium power variable Leupold. Perfect. Sadly Browning no longer builds any bolt action in 22 Hornet anymore.
 
My first sporting centerfire was a mid seventies Winchester 670A in 3006. Kind of budget rig with a blind magazine... Great rifle, shot very well, gave it to my nephew for his first hunting rifle.
 
Brutus said:
I have an AB2 in 22 Hornet. Dandy little walking around varmint rifle. Dropped in a Timney after market trigger and a medium power variable Leupold. Perfect. Sadly Browning no longer builds any bolt action in 22 Hornet anymore.
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Pretty short list on anyone making a 22 Hornet these days sadly.
Tradex just listed some nice BRNO Fox's/601's and Sako Vixens in 222 recently that are really making my wallet tremble..
My other 1975 M70 long action 222 is not really the lightest walking around varminter.
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Hitzy said:
Pretty short list on anyone making a 22 Hornet these days sadly.
Tradex just listed some nice BRNO Fox's/601's and Sako Vixens in 222 recently that are really making my wallet tremble..
My other 1975 M70 long action 222 is not really the lightest walking around varminter.
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I do hear they shoot well though those long action pushfeed varminting Model 70s. And in retrospect my so called short action 788 in 222 surely still has alot of superfluous steel on its wrap around action.

Nice boomstick you got there.
 
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