Win70 featherweight = a big problem

If you like 7mm Remington Magnum performance form a short action rifle, you will like the 7WSM.

It's a great cartridge, unfortunatley the least popular of the WSM's, but it's one of the best ones. Kill anything in North america, shoots plenty flat, what more does a hunter want?:)

Yes, you get one less cartridge in the magazine, although I've rarely loaded huntign magazines with more than 3+1 cartridges anyway, so I don't see it as s great handicap. WSM's feed fine, too. :)
 
I have a Winchester Featherweight in 7wsm topped with a Bushnell 4200 2.5x10x40. Feeds fine and is a much nicer rifle to shoot than my 7mm Rem mag. Buy the WSM you will wonder why you waited!!!
 
I have 3 Featherweights...and like them all.

.270WIN
.300WSM
both above are Classics, still in the wood and pillar bedded.

.280REM push-feed, pillar bedded in a Brown Precision stock. Great Mtn. Rifle!
 
As for featherweight's I only have 2 a Post 64 30/06 with pre 64 action and a pre 64 308.They are both great to carry and to shoot.
Now as for Winchester Model 70 they are great.In Pre 64 I have a 22 Hornet and a 220swift both 1947 and they are only 50numbers apart in the serial numbers range.I also have a Pre 64 243 and a very nice Pre 64 300 H&H and I almost forgot a outstanding shooting Post 64 300 win mag pre 64 action.

I am still looking to add a pre 64 featherweight in 270

If you do get it you will enjoy it alot.
 
Another Model 70 Featherweight fan here. I've bought & sold several over the years and currently have a push-feed XTR Fwt. in .270Win, CRF Fwt. in .270WSM and a CRF Fwt. in .30-06. Can't see anything wrong with the 7WSM. I say go for it.
 
A WSM "featherweight" isn't a featherweight at all. Barrel contour makes a fwt what it is and the WSM contour is a far cry from the true winchester fwt contour.

Chuck
 
True, the standard calibers have the thinner profile "featherweight" barrels. But the stock design with the schnabel forend and floral checkering pattern are unique to the featherweight model so my .270WSM is a "featherweight" but it definately isn't a "flyweight".
 
With all this pent-up demand for rifles chambered in 7 WSM, I guess I had better get off my butt and LIST the one I have. It needs to go to a new home, along with its dies and brass...........:dancingbanana:

For the record, I bought this rifle to give the 7 WSM a try. Same for .300 WSM, .270 WSM, .25 WSSM, a fella wants to play with new toys once in a while. One of the rifles in .270 WSM is staying a while longer, but the others all went to new homes.

This one in 7 WSM is a Savage, with a stock that does not fit me and so is unpleasant for me to shoot. I have lots of guns to choose from when I want to do some shooting or hunting, and my "keepers" all fit me well enough that they are pleasant to shoot.....this is NOT rocket science............:p So I cannot say I gave this cartridge a fair chance - that will have to wait until I find a rifle in this chambering that fits me properly.

Coming soon to an Equipment Exchange forum near you, a Savage rifle with FOUR rounds down the pipe............;)

Doug
 
Mod 70

"Now as for Winchester Model 70 they are great.In Pre 64 I have a 22 Hornet and a 220swift both 1947 and they are only 50numbers apart in the serial numbers range.I also have a Pre 64 243 and a very nice Pre 64 300 H&H and I almost forgot a outstanding shooting Post 64 300 win mag pre 64 action."

How about a nice Model 70 in 7mm Rem Mag? The other one that I had refinished and put a cheap Bushnell scope on just gave me a 3/4 inch group at 300 yards after running a box of hand loads through it. The magic bullet for the 1/4 MOA group? Fed 175 gr soft point cheapo factory ammo! I hope yours shoots as well.
 
I have a Stainless synthetic classic FWT .270 that will put any 130gr at 3000fps into the same hole[almost any powder ] and a FTW 6.5X55 70 pushfeed...................leveled lots of deer + moose............Harold
 
Model 70s? Hmm, a Winlite in 300 Win Mag, a std in 270 Win, another in a synthetic stock in 270 Wby, yet another in 240 Gibbs with a gain twist bbl (Ron Smith, fluted, stainless, also HS stocked), a Ranger in 7 Rem Mag, another Win Lite that started life as a 270 but is being rebarreled, and four 70 actions, two pre-64 and two post (one 223 bolt faced, the other three are magnum bolt faces). Oh, and another in 6.5 Swede. Obviously I'm running low. - dan
 
Another Model 70 Featherweight fan here. I've bought & sold several over the years and currently have a push-feed XTR Fwt. in .270Win, CRF Fwt. in .270WSM and a CRF Fwt. in .30-06. Can't see anything wrong with the 7WSM. I say go for it.
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The .30-06 went to Corlane's (Rocky Mtn Rifles) for surgury and I just picked it up yesterday. I now have a "Classic Featherweight" chambered to .338-06 :dancingbanana:
 
I just acquired a PF M70 Featherweight in 7x57, built some years before Winchester foundered. It is unfired, and looks very good. I will soon know if it was worth the price or not. Regards, Eagleye.
 
I have a Featherweight M70 in 7mm wsm. It is a left hand model. The 7wsm was not my first choice for caliber but I liked the rifle. I would have preferred a 280 rem.
That said, I have warmed up to the 7wsm. It feeds perfectly but not as slick as a 30-06. It has a very sharp bark and heats up fast but, with the moderate loads I use for mule deer, it is very manageable. It is the most accurate rifle I have owned. I think Winchester put a little more care into the fit and finnish of the Featherweight. I use dual dovetail mounts and a vxii 3-9x40 scope-perfect match for a hunting rifle in my opinion.
It seems that the rare calibers are the ones people pay top dollar for years down the road. For example, try to find a nice Savage 99 in 358. In 308, they are common. So, if you reload, pick up some bags of winchester brass and enjoy a very fine rifle. Also, you will need to cut a bit off your powder funnel to allow for the short neck.
 
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