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 .....