With already having a couple nice wood stocked pre 64 M70 .270 fwts. I thought I'd use a spare action to build one in a synthetic stock.
Started with a mid 50's M70 fwt. action, found a krieger fwt contour barrel on their site and then ordered up a mcm compact edge (olive/black speckle) a williams 1pcs. BM unit and talley barrel band.
Redneck did the barrel/chamber/trigger work (barrel @23"), I mounted the barrel band, then sent off the barreled action/BM to Eddie for cerakote titanium and got it back just in time for me to bed the stock, mount a swaro Z3 3-9x42 (w/4A) in some talley 1pcs. As expected it's grouping very well with my normal load of H4831/130 TTSX's.
As shown it weighs 7 lbs 11 oz. and is a joy to handle.

Doesn't get much better than that!

Love it!

Wow Randy that turned out nice!

That sure turned out nice!

Yea man..that's a dandy!

Well done. That may be the perfect big game rifle?
I love it.

Good looking rifle

Perfect.......

One of these years after our deer hunt, I'm going to come home with more rifles than when I showed.

That's a sho-nuff keeper. I could hunt that for the rest of my days...

Solid...

Regards, Matt.

Beautiful rifle. Sure enough done right. Can't get much better than that..

That looks really nice.
I would like to have one like that.

Really like the compact edge on my 6.5-06, looks great on this one too.

A thoroughly modern pre-64. Perfect.

handwerk,

Very nice build! That is a great 'do everything' rifle.

Nice rifle Randy! My pet rifle is very similar to that.

Turned out dang nice, Randy.. Very nice color..

I love to look at rifles.......nice work there!

Randy, super. About done building a similar 270, but a Classic Stainless Fwt.

Great minds, etc...

Thanks for all the kind words folks, I'm sure this rifle will spend many days afield..... Brad I think you're on to something!

With a 22" barrel?