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Soundin' good Eric, picking at fight with an old buck with a set of rattling horns then busting him in the chest at 30 yards aught to make a nice beginning chapter of history with this old rifle.
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Heck yeah it would!! Eric
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A model 70 FWT with a good peep is a sweet handling rifle that should work way past 30.
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[quote=bsa1917hunter][quote=gunner500]YUP! this sight along with AR has caused me to buy 3 double rifles, 2 Sharps and host of other weaponry I never knew I needed. I have been bitten by the double rifle bug as well. I'm drooling over an Isac Hollis .500 BPE with external hammers and a Jones under lever. I have a Stephan Grant to pay for first however. My 270 FWT is a favorite and one of the guns that I would be hard pressed to ever sell.
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Id hunt with the receiver sight and if you don't like it put on a scope.
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Nice catch, gunner. Play with it a while the way it is and see how you feel about it then.
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Just try and sell it to me when I have money. Keep me posted on ' crop harvest times'
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A model 70 FWT with a good peep is a sweet handling rifle that should work way past 30. Of course, but most of my rattle kills have been from around 8 to 40 yards, my favorite way to hunt WT deer.
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[quote=bsa1917hunter][quote=gunner500]YUP! this sight along with AR has caused me to buy 3 double rifles, 2 Sharps and host of other weaponry I never knew I needed. I have been bitten by the double rifle bug as well. I'm drooling over an Isac Hollis .500 BPE with external hammers and a Jones under lever. I have a Stephan Grant to pay for first however. My 270 FWT is a favorite and one of the guns that I would be hard pressed to ever sell. Doubles are indeed a disease GSP, with no known "economical" cure. Sounds like you have some very nice doubles there.
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Id hunt with the receiver sight and if you don't like it put on a scope. Exactly Ben.
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Nice catch, gunner. Play with it a while the way it is and see how you feel about it then. Sho nuff LD, I have found one saving grace to that godawful polyurethane finish, the checkering is in pristine condition, it has been well protected for years, it had so much poly on it the checkering was filled smooth, to say the rifle was well sealed is an understatement.
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I bought my first pre'64 M/70 in the early 1970's and have since owned many in a variety of calibers. While I have shot them with Lyman 48 receiver sights and would not hesitate to hunt with the receiver sights, all of the game I have taken with M/70 rifles has been with scope sighted ones.
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Does the receiver sight setup use the original front sight on the rifle?
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GW, Think I'll enjoy receiver sight hunting on this rifle, I use them on Sharps and Lever rifles too, I believe they make scope shooting easier and will continue to use them as long as I can see well enough to place hard quick killing hits on game animals. I'm 52 years old and just a couple three years ago had 20/15 vision, holdin' steady at 20/20 today, hopefully I'll have a few more years of iron sight rifle hunting left to do.
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[quote=keystoneben]Does the receiver sight setup use the original front sight on the rifle? I believe so Ben, there is a little silver beaded front sight on this rifle, it doesn't look bubba'd in any way, I do need to find an original front sight hood though.
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I'd make sure that the aperture works for me....
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Will be on that very operation like white on rice.
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Nice catch, gunner. Play with it a while the way it is and see how you feel about it then. Sho nuff LD, I have found one saving grace to that godawful polyurethane finish, the checkering is in pristine condition, it has been well protected for years, it had so much poly on it the checkering was filled smooth, to say the rifle was well sealed is an understatement. gunner, I hate polyurethane anything on any gun. Yeah, maybe it's good on a picnic table, park bench, or pool deck. But, it sucks on a gun. My experience with the stuff is: you can't get it off fast enough when you need to on the schit you don't want it on, and it doesn't protect as well as you were told it would on the schit you wanted it to protect! Best part of it all, you still got a good gun to play with.
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