Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles New Model 70 SuperGrade or new Model 700 BDL

Blasphemy.

So. All up with 5 rounds in the box, and the Leupy and Talleys a 7/08 would weigh around 8# 14 ounces

I always prefer M70's also, but the supergrade is just too danged heavy. I can tell you from my own experience that buying a rifle that heavy because I was glamoured by the eye candy appeal would result in it becoming a safe queen and not getting hunted. I'd think it wouldn't bother me in the store, but after a few hunts I'd get un-enamored with it. I'd either go for the featherweight or find a NIB featherweight deluxe that they made for a few years. In addition to the weight I wouldn't want the 24" barrels (270 & 300 WSM) or the 26" barrel on the 7mm rem mag. The featherweight versions would come 2" shorter.

I also question why you'd want to put talley lightweights on a supergrade. I like talley's and use several sets of them, but they're pretty much the world's ugliest scope mounts and completely out of place on a fancy rifle like a supergrade. Using them to save a couple ozs. on a 9.5 lb rifle is pointless, it's like taking the bumper off your 1 ton diesel pickup to save fuel. I'd pick something nicer looking like leupold dual dovetails for a rifle like that.

The short action supergrades are 22 inch bbls, but two inches has never bothered me.

I carry close to 20 pounds plus on my belt at work every day, a 9 pound rifle doesn't bother me

The only short action you had listed is the 300 WSM and it's a 24" barrel. Non magnum short actions get 22".

http://www.winchesterguns.com/products/catalog/detail.asp?family=001C&mid=535203

Winchester 70 in 270 Winchester is my suggestion!

Fair enough.


I'm leaning towards the 7-08 in a Supergrade

Cabelas got them first, I believe, but they are out there from other dealers now without the advertising stain.

I want to handle one...with that barrel, they might be as butt heavy as Oprah!

I'd buy the Remington 700. The model 70 Supergrade is too heavy for me and its a CRF , which I find to be fickle. I also think Talleys are ugly.

Dammit,you change your mind almost as quick as I do.

Gitem- you do not say where you are or what you are h unting. i have a supergrade in 300 wm . it is a very atractive rifle. it is not light. it shoots great. why a heavy 7-08? the rem cdl might run a close second not a bdl though. 30-06 300 win or 7mm

You mean the CRFs are peone to jamming?

I'm a model 70 fan at heart. I'm in Pa and will
Mostky hunt whitetails. I just think the model 70 looks better than the CDL, and all up the 700 won't be that much lighter than the 70

I say the 70 and in 300 WSM. To be honest, it's because the new ones seem to be very well made and I like 70s. My Classic is respectably made, but I think the new ones are a little better. The synthetic B&C stock is certainly better than mine. I said 300 WSM because I like more recoil and to pay more for ammo. Mine is very accurate with most loads.

ETA: Any of those cartridge choices are good.

300 WSM......I take it, the first question in the OP was rhetorical or at the very least a no brainer...

If you are comparing the super grade to anything Remington, it should be the CDL, not the BDL.

4 ounces is but one candy bar.

Some of these little [bleep] (f uckers) need a lite done right rifle though. To each their own. Pass the 1/4 lb candy bar please..

They are selling half pound Reese's butter cups here in Canada holy [bleep]

Kimber montana in 30-06!

Of the three, 7 Rem Mag...