model 70 project rifle

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Re: model 70 project rifle

Post by Oldbloke » 29 Jun 2019, 8:14 pm

GQshayne wrote:Fine tuning????? Looks finished to me! LOL



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Re: model 70 project rifle

Post by bigrich » 29 Jun 2019, 8:33 pm

GQshayne wrote:Fine tuning????? Looks finished to me! LOL


i like to tinker mate, i spent about 33 years playing with old school street machines ( HQ's , toranas, valiants ) and the bug to modify and improve and tune is now being applied to firearms. i recently had a look at a mates 6.5x55 zastava , floated the barrel, and did a cheap bedding job with aluminium tape from bunnings . the action was loose in the stock, so i built up layers of the tape along the sides of the stock where the receiver and first two inches of barrel sit ,till the receiver dropped snuggly into the stock . he shot three 129 gn sst handloads that grouped half inch in a cold clean barrel . he seemed pretty happy , and so was i to help out my mate. i picked up that trick off rimfirecentral web site . it will be permanantly bedded at a latter date with acraglass . the zastava MK70 is a better rifle than i gave credit too as well . new mauser 98 action with a parker hale/timney fully adjustable trigger . stock is a bit average and the barrels a thin featherweight that moves with heat , but their not a bad qaulity gun . i think they were sold under the "mark x" tag in the past . the factory stock inletting on my 1980 made model 70 is that exact it "clips in " i don't know if bedding will improve it that much. from a lot of yank forums the word is the mid 70's to the early 80's were a golden period for winchester when they had their sh!t together after the 1964 corporate "revamp" and downgrading of a previously well built product . all this posting is hard work, time for another beer ..... :lol:

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Re: model 70 project rifle

Post by in2anity » 29 Jun 2019, 9:32 pm

Will you still rebarrel br?
At what point does lack of maintenance become patina?
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Re: model 70 project rifle

Post by bigrich » 29 Jun 2019, 11:49 pm

in2anity wrote:Will you still rebarrel br?


atm , no i think 243 is a great crossover caliber . varmiter/ deer caliber . gives me a excuse to buy another gun for a 358 build up , i seen a win featherweight that would do .a flatter shooter than my 6.5x55 is the 243 :D
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Re: model 70 project rifle

Post by Tank » 30 Jun 2019, 12:26 pm

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