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All good with me Jaywalker. I'm not brand/action loyal by any means.

Drive a M700 Mtn Rifle 280 in a CDL stock, a M70 FWT XTR Export model Swede, A couple of FN Venezuelan 7x57 Sporter projects, a Ruger 77 Tang RSI 250 Savage that will be Dad's early XMas/Birthday/40th Anniversary Present (Mom shoots a Tang RSI too) and a B-78 25-06. In fact, trying to kill a deer with each this fall. (So far only the FN Venezuelan known as Shillelagh has succeeded ... but that was early antlerless, "Regular Season" starts next Saturday.)

Generally speaking: accurate, reliable, and light are preferred in my book.

GE

I love odd chamberings. However, the 257 Bob MUST be a short action. IMHO. (Wouldn't a SA "Classic Compact" Bob be SWEET? Get right what Ruger didn't on their UL!)

GE

I agree. The M70 short action is a little longer than the M700 short action. It fits the 257/7X57/6MM Rem case perfectly, IMO.

I have no problem spending a good dime on a quality rifle. The Winnie M70 is my absolute favaorite rifle ever produced, it just looses its appeal when I know that it is just an FN with the Winchester name on it. FN is a quality company that makes accurate rifles, I'd just rather give my money to Kimberusa and not Olin Corp.

They don't look to be smart enough to bring back the stainless featherweight rifles. I can only imagine a stainless featherweight rifle chambered for cartridges such as the 257 Roberts, 7x57mm, 358 WIN, 350 Rem Mag, etc.

Me too.

Same cartidge. Savage loaded the 250 savage with a light bullet at 3000 fps and for a while called it the 250-3000

.35 Whelen, 9.3x62 Mauser, .375 H&H.

Big +1.

Same here. In a heart beat.

A bunch of you guys were saying 7 x 57 in a Featherweight....

I have one! late 80s or early 90s production...

Got it cheap, because everyone who looked at it, didn't have a clue what caliber a 7mm Mauser was...Paid $300.00 for it.. and it was as immaculate as the day it came out of the box... and the former owner had added a PacMyer Recoil Pad, and it came with Leupold Bases and Rings... and a trigger job also...The bore looked like it had only a few boxes of ammo ever shot thru it...

And yes it is a tack driver! with about any ammo you feed it!!!!

Hey, I hope their return to Manufacturing the Model 70, will make used Model 70s available and affordable once again...

And while everyone has all sorts of calibers they want it available in.. I have one word to say: Rebarrel!!!

Then you can get about anything you want as long as you have the right sized action!!!

Go to fieldandstream.blogs.com. There is a pictoral and description of the new Winchester Model 70 and the Browning X Bolt rifles.

Here you go http://fieldandstream.blogs.com./

For the Bozeman guys, they have a 2008 Winchester catalogue at Sportsman�s in the back room. I just glanced at a few items, but some things did catch my eye. Winchester has a cut away of the new trigger group in the model 70 depicted and it is nothing like the historic trigger system. The SS synthetics are in Bell and Carlson stocks, wearing 22� barrels in the standard calibers and 24� barrels in the mags. The catalogued weight for the standard chamberings in the SS synthetic was a nominal 7lbs. Except for the WSMs, the chamberings were limited to a few of the good old boys. CP.

Whats the particulars on the trigger group? Tell me it isnt a sheet metal enclosed mechanism ala Remington.

As I recall, the cut away did not appear to show a shroud. There was a spring in the tang area, which paralleled the bottom of the action and another spring which came down from the action at a right angle to the former. There appeared to be three pivot points in the group itself. Please don�t hold me to any of this; I did not look closely at the details in the cut away diagram. CP.

Note to Winchester;
Make some really nice left-handed models!!!!!

Doc