Originally Posted by ruffedgrouse
And a lot of that is based on my hunts in wilderness settings where reliability is really what you want more that anything else. So the one piece bolt and...


And I forgot to mention, (if by one piece you mean bolt body and handle made out of one piece), the new M70 have one piece bolts, too. I think post-64 push feeds use a handle that was bronze-brazed on like the Remington 700 that influenced it, as well as perhaps the classics and FN SC made guns. But the M70s coming out of Portugal use one piece bolts and handles.

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