Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors I found a nice little rifle yesterday

The couple things that stuck out at me, that I did not like:
Besides the fact that the "professional" that glass bedded it originally was messy. Look at that spill over. That's unacceptable in my book:

When that rear action screw is left long^^^^, the bolt has a tendency to drag on it. I like to keep it even or slightly below the profile of the receiver:

I had to cold blue the end of the screw to match the receiver. This is right after grinding it down though^^^^

This always bothers me when guys do this, but we all know Mcmillan has an issue with not inletting this part of the stock properly:

Whoever ground on this trigger guard should be horse whipped. Look at that crappy job^^

Generally I just go a little deeper with the inletting so you don't have to modify the $120.00 trigger guard!!!! This one was what it was, so I ground and polished it better and then baked some paint on:



My other option would have been to call Jason at pre64.com and order a nice fwt trigger guard, but that's a $120.00 I don't want to spend on it.. Paint and recontour/polish turned out alright. I think I can live with it now.

This was before I cleaned it. Typical aluminum pillars and nice bedding job:

I'll leave it as is and shoot it and see how it does. The barrel is not freefloated, so that may be an issue. We will definitely see when I take it to the range. If it is a problem, I'll freefloat it and re-shoot..

Here's a pic of the rifle after I wiped the stock down a little bit. It was a little dirty:



I've always liked the looks of Conetrol rings and bases on these model 70's, but couldn't see paying what they want for them. I'm glad they were on this rifle when I bought it. I'll use it just like it is. Even with the old Leupy. That's a friction adjust scope, so you know its an older one.

Here it is after I pulled it from the stock:

Rifle was manufactured in 1961, according to the serial #. Bolt also has matching serial #.