Yes, the BACO-marked rifles are from SC.

The only potential drawback is the new trigger, which has the zero-overtravel feel of the 3-lever Browning triggers. I have one SC M70 and the pull was too heavy with the factory spring, even with the adjusting screw removed (the housing limits the minimum spring tension). If you get one that's too heavy for your taste, you might consider an aftermarket spring from Ernie the Gunsmith http://www.erniethegunsmith.com/catalog/i170.html (get two!), and maybe a dab of moly-disulfide at the sear. With those mods, I got a consistent 3 lbs break +/1 an ounce or two, and I'm very happy with the rifle.

Mine has a slick action and is a great shooter, especially for such a light barrel. It developed a slight warp in the barrel channel when the wood dried out to New Mexico conditions, and I had to add a little clearance because it was touching intermittently and throwing fliers. With that minor fix, it has been great.

The only think I might do differently is pay the extra $$ for the stainless version, cost versus convenience.

No. This is a new model 70 fwt. These rifles don't say SC on them anywhere. Morgan Utah is where their main office is I guess....My extreme weather is the same way...

ny: I've owned 4 of them and shot a 5th....they all shot great,functioned well,and were free of some of the blips that afflicts some of the NH Classics.

I never touched a trigger (except to squeeze it and shot them as they came outta the box.One of the 270's and one of the 300 WSM's rivaled any custom rifle I have had built for accuracy.

ny: I've owned 4 of them and shot a 5th....they all shot great,functioned well,and were free of some of the blips that afflicts some of the NH Classics.

I never touched a trigger (except to squeeze it and shot them as they came outta the box.One of the 270's and one of the 300 WSM's rivaled any custom rifle I have had built for accuracy.

Makes you wonder what the purpose in putting BACO on a model 70 is? Do they really need to put that crap on a model 70? I am glad the model 70 survived, but being associated with Browning is like putting the name Hyundai on a Cadillac.

Makes you wonder what the purpose in putting BACO on a model 70 is? Do they really need to put that crap on a model 70? I am glad the model 70 survived, but being associated with Browning is like putting the name Hyundai on a Cadillac.

So what happened with the unions in New Haven? I hadn't heard about that, would be interested in knowing the story. I just saw the results.

Labor costs continued to rise, and a prolonged and bitter strike in 1979�1980 convinced Olin that firearms could no longer be produced profitably in New Haven. Therefore in December 1980 the plant was sold to its employees, incorporated as the U.S. Repeating Arms Company, together with a license to make Winchester arms. Olin retained the Winchester ammunition business.

When U.S. Repeating Arms went bankrupt in 1989 it was acquired by a French holding company, then sold to an arms making cartel sponsored by the Belgian Herstal Group, which also owns gun makers Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal (FN) and Browning Arms Company.

On January 16, 2006 U.S. Repeating Arms announced it was closing the New Haven, Connecticut, plant where Winchester rifles and shotguns were produced for 140 years.[4] Along with the closing of the plant, the Model 94 rifle (the descendant of the original Winchester rifle), Model 70 rifle and Model 1300 shotgun would be discontinued.
[edit] Revival

On August 15, 2006, Olin Corporation, owner of the Winchester trademarks, announced that it had entered into a new license agreement with Browning[5] to make Winchester brand rifles and shotguns, though not at the closed Winchester plant in New Haven. The production of Model 1885 falling block action, Model 1892 and Model 1886 lever action rifles are produced under licensed agreement by Miroku Corp. of Japan and imported back to United States by Browning. [6]

In 2008 Fabrique Nationale announced that it would produce Model 70 rifles at its plant in Columbia, SC. In the summer of 2010 Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal (FN) resumed production of the Winchester model 1894 and the evolution of the Winchester 1300, now called the Winchester SXP

dude seriously are you crazy, there isn't anything more american in guns than the browning name. how many winchester designs made their way to our military. I can't actually think of one that was widely accepted. browning on the other hand, lets see, the 1911, BAR, various machine gun designs, some still used even today. sounds pretty american to me. IMO if not for browning winchester would not exist as we know it today because the guns that made them famous for the most part were BROWNING designs that were bought from browning himself. it wasn't until winchester refused to pay a royalty rather than a lump sum that browning took his designs to FN.

putting browning on the new winchesters was just part of the way they freed themselves from the aweful union debacle in new haven. they had to go out of business for a few years and olin who owns the winchester name had to assign the name to another company. who knows all the legal issues. so instead of USRAC, FN just assigned the name to browning another company in their umbrella.

to complain about BACO being on the guns is stupid, I take pride in knowing that union thugs aren't building the guns anymore. and better yet since the unions are not building the guns the money they are not collecting in union dues is not making it back to the democrats and obama.

Sounds like this is a debate about globalization. Browning is an international company; much of its manufacturing is in Japan. FN is Belgian. I prefer to buy products made in the US. I don't think we have much control any more over who owns the factory, it's all very fluid these days. It's very strange, isn't it, that the US, with its strong gun culture, ends up handing some of our greatest brands to companies based in places with tight limits on gun ownership, a thin market base, and ridiculous amounts of regulation. I fault management of the US companies. There's really no excuse for it, but here we are. Fortunately, some of the US supplier firms are doing great work and there are new US firms entering the market.

Gosh, I've killed a lot of critters with the sewage Browning produces and never had a problem.

Are you sure? Mine don't seem to smell bad???

Laffin.

Another goober who claims to be able to read the minds of dead folks...

Your not Laffin as hard as me. Pretty much everyone here knows that you rank right up there with Swampman700 in the goober category. The A-Bolts are a design abomination. The fact that you can't figure that out, and that it doesn't matter to you, or you just don't know any better, speaks volumes.

I'm looking at buying a current manufacture Stainless Featherweight in .30-06.

Are all the new M-70s marked BACO? If not, how are the new South Carolina (FN) rifles stamped?

The new M-70 seems to be developing an excellent reputation for accuracy, so I'd like one from SC.

Any reason not to purchase a BACO rifle?

And just to be clear, I bought a blued one and would buy a stainless next time.

Any reason not to purchase a BACO rifle?

Yeah - that stupid-azzed MOA trigger...

ULA claims to know what dead folks think and is basically full of more schit than a packed feed lot.

He is to be pitied though, not ridiculed.

I know I'm not telling folks anything they don't already know about poor ULA, but try not to make fun of him and the fact that his momma and doctor make him wear a helmet for his own protection...

God speed ULA. Don't let those evil Brownings get you.

Lee, I knew you'd say that

We all knew he'd say that...

He sent me a PM. He actually loves the MOA trigger.

Question on the Extreme Weather as I am thinking about getting one in .300 WSM if I don't go the Sako route.

Can you drop a cartridge in the chamber and just close the bolt on it? Or do you have to feed it from the magazine? They won't let me try that in the stores

Thanks. Bob.

I found the answer in a Model 70 owners manual on the internet. You can load the magazine and then drop one in the chamber, to get you 3+1, but they suggest if single loading to let it load from the magazine.

I'm sure most of you know this already, but in case someone else is as unfamiliar with Winchesters as I am, there you go.

Bob.

Fifth,

I had read that some of the controlled round feed guns have to load from the mag, and that some can be single loaded. My personal experience has only been with push feed rifles, so I was not sure, just checking before I plop down my 1k for a rifle. Thanks.

Bob.