Thanx Roger, I wasn't sure about your nomenclature. In the few left hand M-70 Classic Magnums out there, left available for parenting a wildcat, the bug bear seems to be that they were all made on soft tooling. The Browning tech whom I called thinks these asymmetric actions' spare parts will be gone in ten years. Soft tooling means a run of only 30,000 items, tops, not 100,000 to 500,000, as in hard tooled jobs.
And this also applies to the Miroku built, replica Winchester lever action rifles, too.
I believe that all of these soft tooling rifles should only use factory ammo, to cut down on parts breakages. Even now, you need to pirate a Win. 670's circlip extractor, to repair the older Remington 721's and 722's. So this is already a "robbing Peter, to pay Paul", situation. And I don't know if you can still, "Pay Paul, with Pay Pal", on E-Bay, either.
