Originally Posted by handwerk
This rifle has been a spare, good shooting mid 50's 30'06 FWT sitting around in it's factory stock and I decided to dress it up like one I put together for my son as a no nonsense all all-rounder.
I sent the factory barreled action off to Eddie Fosnaugh for his great cerakoting work (graphite black) I then bedded it in a mcm edge compact, topped it with talley lwts and a swaro Z3 3-9x36. As shown it comes in at 7 lbs. 4.9 oz. and is about as light as I like a rifle. With 168 TTSX's it will pretty consistently shoot 3/4" groups. A new spin on an old classic.
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The pre-64 'Featherweight' Model 70 like 12ga 26" 1/4 choke Model 12 'Featherweight' is almost impossible to best for its intended use, even by modern standards. There are just couple of rifles of that period that can meet and match challenge of the pre-64 Model 70 'Featherweight'.