M-70 WINCHESTERS and Mauser have been my life and by today's standards of accuracy they are nothing to brag about and I know that it was the bedding problems that really holds back the M-70 pre-64. For a hunter I recommend a restock to McMillan stock and the factory wood untouched as a keeper. I would turn over the metal for a re barrel with any number of top barrel makers, keep the original barrel and sell it, I have and have worked over my hunting rifle actions and it has made a difference, by the way the M-70 pre-64 action is weak for handling gas unless it is modified.


Thus saith thr lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeh from the lord. Jeremiah 17:5 KJV