I have a Featherweight in 223, that is the push feed version... 1980s vintage...
I've got one as well, even with the pencil thin barrel. Never having been bedded or any other work done to it, it just flat out shoots (even the cheap stuff).
A pard shoots one of those. I covet it...
I had one and sold it. Mine never did shoot that well with anything. Even after free floating/bedding/trigger adjustment/recrown it wouldn't do better than 1 1/4" with it's favorite handloads.
