I have had three of them. Two were the M70 Super Grades of about 1971 vintage. 22" barrels.
I picked up a supergrade.458 in the 80s, and it looked to have some age on it, so I gather it was something from the 70s Wasn't too impressed with the stock inletting, how were yours in that regard?
I ended up with Mike's pair of .458's.
One I had re-barreled to .416 Remington using a Remington take off barrel and also had the action opened up to fit a custom made magazine that had 95mm Internal OAL which according to my digital calipers approximates an OAL of 3.740".
The second one I left in .458 Winchester though I did have both stocks refinished so they looked like a pair. I shot mostly feral goats and pigs with that pair before immigrating to the US where I bought another one that was Electroless Nickel plated and came with 2 stocks, being a pretty chunk of figured walnut like we never got in Oz and a Plastic Weatherproof stock that was already bedded for a nasty weather combo.
This one is very special as it has had a "master 'smith" work the action and trigger like no Winchester I ever played with and shoot, even Mike would drool over this one.
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