Back in the mid 80's Winchester made a run of the Roberts in their m70 featherweights. It seemed almost instantly the gun shows had a plentiful supply of used ones for sale. [/quote]
That's because the dumbass bootlips at Winchester put a mag box in them made for the 243 win at about 2.82" long and the only way to get max accuracy with a 100 gr Spitzer was seat it out to about 3.05" making the gun a single shot. Yup could have ordered a mag box and follower for the 7x57 chambered gun as well as a bolt stop. Why in the hell should you have to spend extra to make it right when winchester should have done that in the first place? The 100gr Silvertips in the +p load shot good accuracy wise but didn' t perform well on game. The factory Remington rn 117 gr loads didn 't shoot for beans and for a fact the WW 117 rn loads were only a little better. That s why I dumped mine
" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
