...a 223 WSSM?
A friend who likes guns but is not much of a shooter has a near-new Winchester 70 in 223 WSSM. He still has the two boxes of ammo he bought with the gun.
He's hinting that he will sell it to me for nearly nothing - if not just give it to me when I move in a month or two.
I have no use for a .223 caliber rifle that shoots 55gr soft points at 3800+fps - especially one for which ammo is nearly impossible to find (ammoseek.com only showed 3 online sources and one said to expect mottled colors on the brass).
Reloading is possible, but getting brass must be a nightmare. Also, I'm thinking the barrel twist will not support longer, heavier, better B.C. bullets - I'm not sure when it was produced, but he's had it several years.
I'd rebarrel but I'm thinking the feed rails might be at an awkward spacing to accommodate those short, fat WSSW rounds, making it difficult to feed anything much slimmer.
What can be done to make this rifle useful again?
Last edited by czech1022; 06/05/21.
