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Gents:

There are some outstanding rifles pictured on the "Let's see your winchester model 70 rifles" thread, many of which are Featherweights. I'd like to see some of the game harvested with the M70 Featherweight over the years.

Thanks

RM

Rev,
I rarely photograph routine kills as they are mostly deer, so here goes:
No picture at all of my pre 64 M70 Featherweight .308. It has been magna ported and I did a trigger honing and floated the barrel when I first bought it used back about 1970. The metal and stock were refinished 10+ years ago and it looks OK and shoots great. Leupold M84x scope/carry handle is the only scope ever mounted. Longest kills were W deer at 400 yards and mule deer at 300 yards. Most all shots were from 5 yards to 100. It is going black bear hunting in late May.

Numerous whitetail - does and bucks, a few coyotes, a skunk, a diller or so, one running feral house cat ( one heck of a shot I might add ) , several wild turkey (legal in Texas) , some wild porkers, a few feral goats, a cow elk, and Hogzilla !

Holy smokes! What a pig!

Must be a BACO fwt leaning up against the backside of that critter... they are pigs for sure...

My son with a 9 point taken with his pre 64 '06 Fwt.

Pre 64 270 Fwt with a McMillan compact edge



Pre 64 Fwt '06

A poor cellphone pic of a pretty young boar, BACO (SC) 7x57, 140-gr. Interlock



A huge boar taken with an Africanized M70 (XTR) 7x57, i.e., the Ingwe Special, 158-gr. Priv Grom

Nice Trophy hogs and good looking featherweights you have there Rev! Both being in 7x57 caliber is pretty cool.

My brother has a Baco in 257 bob NIB. Wish i could talk him out of it.

Doe after I got Her half way down off the top. Bounced Her out of Her bed on the last day of Doe. The day before a storm was coming and they were out feeding, and I saw 40 some, but thought tomorrow will be a fun day to hunt. Not a track to be found the whole morning until I bounced Her and 3 others out.

Late 50's Featherweight in 270win. It wore a 6x36 LRD that day and this doe fell at 393 yards to a 130 grainer.




This guy was a bit more involved of a story, but in short form he was the product of a mixup w/ a larger buck after a very long, multi-hour stalk.
SS Classic Featherweight in 308win. 155 scenars - 315 yards.

Understand mix ups. I was once stalking a nice desert mule deer. He was accompanied by three lesser bucks. Somewhere he gave me the slip, and when the other three broke cover and were about to disappear over a ridge top, I shot the larger of the three, thinking it was my quary. Oh well, next day a friend showed up a camp. I sicked him on the escapee, and two days later he found him. He was a pretty nice buck, but my tag was filled.

One of the vaqueros had tipped me on the buck's usual haunts and after my screw up, I felt obliged to pass the info on to our friend. All is well that ends well.

Jack

Here is a just-taken pic of my pre 64 (made in 1954, I think)M70 featherweight .308 that took the 600 pound hog shown before:



It also took this elk cow at 190 yards:


Game and guns go better with coffee!

Not much of a story, except he kept hanging around and then I had to drag him for around 3 hours. But it was OK, he came easy.

that's the best McSwirly color I've ever seen.

Campfire member gave me a heads-up on it. It was on the McMillan special discount page.

Battue I have the same scope. love it

Agree, a great woods scope and works fine for a little way out there also.

1995 Stainless Fwt 30-06 in its factory Tupperware:



Same rifle modified with 21” bbl., open sights, Bansner stock:

So, what'd you think of the Scenar?

And three more boars today. Two head shots and this running shot: