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Have wanted a Pre-64 M70 30-06 FWT for quite a while, and particularly one that was made around the time I was. I located one right at my 48th B-day, and it just so happens it was made the month after I was born in 1961. Equally fortuitous, David Walter put an NIB Pre-64 M70 Fwt McMillan Edge for sale on the Classifieds the same day I ordered the rifle. Anyway, cobbled it all together (bedding, lapping rings, mounting 6x36 Leupold, blah, blah) this weekend. Shoots great and goes 7lbs 6oz's scoped with sling and five rounds: ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/brad300wsm/P1000873.jpg)
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A nice rifle and sentimental. Perfect!
ddj
Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
The best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back. - Robert Ruark
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Very nice, Brad. It should work quite well on elk.
Good job.
I've got a pre-64 in 270 that shoots great, but weighs a ton. It spends all it's time in the safe.
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If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
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Beautiful picture Brad. Good for you.
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Brad,
Very nice, that one should serve you very well.
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Very nice rifle Brad and classy too!
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Nice set-up! I am thinking that when I get too old and tired to fool around with every new bullet, powder and cartridge that comes along, I will buy a McMillan for my customized 1961 .30-06 and go back to shooting everything with it, just as I did when I could not afford to do anything else.
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Great looking rifle...it doesn't get much better than that. Let's see a couple more pictures please. What are you going to run thru her?
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Brad very cool I am a couple of years older and am thinking along those lines my self. My gun collection is not much but all I am lacking is one of the pre 64's and I will have a Winchester from each of the different time frames very nice.
If there is any proof of a man in a hunt it is not whether he killed a deer or elk but how he hunted it.
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Nicely done, Brad! Heck though, you could almost buy a new one and have it be as old as you are...you're just a pup!  Some of us would be trying to buy flints and powder horns or whatever, if we got a rifle as old as we are...
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Wow that looks great. I have a pre 64 in a Fwt 30-06 and I am almost tempted to do the same.....
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Congrats Brad.Very sweet iron.
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Looks great Brad. I was "this" close to ordering an Edge for my 270 fwt, but passed.
That's about as good as a rifle gets.
Anybody who seriously concerns themselves with the adequacy of a Big 7mm for anything we hunt here short of brown bear, is a dufus. They are mostly making shidt up. Crunch! Nite-nite!
Stolen from an erudite CF member.
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Brad
Did you replace the factory alloy bottom metal work on this rifle?
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Brad, Very cool! Dig the hooded front sight.
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Taking my rifle for a walk
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You know, it REALLY needs to be in a wooden stock......... 
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that really looks nice.....I am often tempted to put a Mac on my pre-64 featherweight, but there are too many memories tied up in the scratches my father, and then I, have put on her over the last 40 years.
but still.....
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I ran into Brad this afternoon. He had the rifle along so of course I had to get my grubby paws on it.
Talk about a sweet handling rifle. Very quick to the shoulder.
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