In 1984 my wife's uncle in MT had a big safe full of M70s.
He said that when he went to the Vegas show to try to buy more, there was nothing any good, and guys were trying to buy his.

I can only imagine things have gotten more competitive in the last 28 years.

I shot a lot of his prairie dogs with his 220 Swift and his 243.


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps