In my manufacturing plants, we neatly stack production work in trays. Only scrap is piled up. Different worlds.
April 2007? That is fairly recent. I actually posted that the Model 70 would resume production at FN in SC, as early as the fall of 2006. FN was already building the Model 70 as their tactical rifle. I shot one of them in Columbia in 2006.
I have been in the FN facility a few times since it was first built. FN invited me for an interview in 1976, and I went, after having designed a stock for HK. I was already headed to graduate school.
You haven't posted a photo of your .416 Model 70, but I don't want one, anyway. I'm all set for big rifles.
If you ever run into anyone from Winchester who knows the Model 70 Safari variations, please pass along their name. Or give it to VAnimrod, so he can pretend he talked to them.
