Did Winchester ever catalog this? New Haven FWT synthetic stock 7 Mauser with open sight's. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/g2yB8yNK/IMG-0056-16.webp[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/26XzmNW3/IMG-0059-15.webp[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/NFk51fPF/IMG-0063-15.webp[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/Nj3Bjvpz/IMG-0064-15.webp[/img]

Don’t recall one but that’s a pretty easy stock swap. Looks like a standard tupperware. What’s first two of serial?

G206700X

Not even finding a 7x57 in the ‘92 catalog.
But certainly that stock was available by then.
Lots of interesting stuff came out 91-93.

I want to see if it say's anything on the pad.Maybe one for the european market?Those stocks were available from Winchester for the featherweight contour?

Say's "Winchester" on the pad.

No doubt it’s a Winchester stock. How did the barrel channel look? Like a featherweight dropped in a sporter? Or a featherweight tupperware?
They did have featherweight tupperware during that time frame. I have seen a push feed stainless featherweight which was in one and it was the correct inlet for a featherweight. Serial number was in the same range; G 210xxxx

Not wanting to post the actual listing that's on gunsinternational?

I punted.

Well, I couldn't get a picture to come up so the following is my best guess.

If the synthetic stock is in the same configuration as the wood Featherweight stock, the the stock is a McMillan. I have an XTR in .270 Win. in one of those stocks and the rifle has a 24" barrel. I even have a spare of that stock just in case. AS I couldn't see the picture, my best guess is the person who owned that rifle ordered the stock from Winchester and used it, possibly so that a nice wood stock wouldn't get all scarred up.
PJ

That is a great possibility. However, the stock is not a "fwt" stock. If I remember right, it is just an oldstyle early tupperware that came on the sporter push feeds or classic. I'd have to look again, but that is what I remember. The sights did not appear to be factory either. The rifle is/was listed on gunsinternational, if you want to look at it..

https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...therweight-7-mauser.cfm?gun_id=102072854

Be long gone if it were in a McMillan.

Yeah, it's just a factory tupperware.

Question-- How to identify a McMillen stock on a Winchester? Is there a trademark, number or something?
Thanks

AK probably knows better than I do, but I have an older one that says Mcmillan on the pachmayr decelerator recoil pad. Its the only one that I've had like this out of about 10 mcmillans.. In fact, I was going to pull it off and then decided to keep it on because it must be rare. Plus the sumbiotch is glued on good!!!!

Without getting too far into the weeds, you are looking for a mid eighties to early 90s push feed xtr with a synthetic stock which is NOT checkered and NOT tupperware. The featherweights will sport a schnabel and look the same in profile as the wood featherweights; the magnums will have a normal forend. Neither has a cheek piece.

Most say Winchester on the pad.

I think he's asking if there is a "trademark" or stamping on the inside of the barrel channel or elsewhere that identifies it as a Mcmillan..

Outside of those few early browns, it won’t be anything else. Some are stamped in the channel; some aren’t.

I have two of those stocks One is mounted on a .270 XTR and the other is safely ticked away waiting installation on an M70 in .280 Rem. if I ever come across one. Both stocks have Winchester butt pads and I've not seen any markings denoting the stocks as made by McMillan. I also have an M70 in .300 Win. Mag. which has a factory installed McMillan stock. According to Mule Deer, JB of course, he dod corroborate the fact that Winchester did a run of rifles with the McMillan stocks. You might see if you can find it up in the campfire threads.
PJ

Yes, of course they (Winchester) made a run of Mcmillan stocked rifles. We've all talked about this many times here, especially within the last 4 months or so. We've had threads here in this forum, regarding these rifles. Those rifles are called Winlites. You can usually spot them from 100 feet away in a crowded room. Also as AKwolverine pointed out, Brown Precision also supplied stocks for some of the earlier ones. The reason we started some of those threads was because the rifles were being sold for very cheap prices. Some of us thought about buying said rifles, just for the stocks. We were under the impression that some sellers did not know what they had. Probably why TBREW401 was asking questions regarding how these stocks are marked. Also, the rifle in question is definitely not in a Mcmillan. The rifle in the OP has a factory tupperware stock on it. Very easy to identify that..

Thank you all for the stock info, much appreciated

You are welcome. I hope we were helpful. As bsa said, there are quite a few threads on these winlites and I wasn’t trying to get too far into the weeds.

As an aside, there are a couple of nice winlites currently listed on gunbroker. The 30/06 wears the standard featherweight McMillan pattern with the schnabel forend (later offered by McMillan as the “Winchester featherweight”), while the 7 mag has the standard McMillan winlite magnum pattern (later offered by McMillan as the “Winchester classic”).

30/06 featherweight winlite
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/951815985


7 mm mag winlite
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/952077830


The pad on the 7 mag is original, the 06 has likely been replaced.

I have a Winchester Model 70 7mm Mauser Lightweight rifle with the iron sights. It was made for the European market, and came from the factory with a wood stock. I believe that was a early 1990's manufacture. I put it in a Winchester factory synthetic stock that was made for a Featherweight rifle, and it was perfect fit.

Nice examples there. Now, if the 7mm rem mag was in a winlite with a schabel forend, we could assume the stock was not original to the rifle and not a true "winlite".

That looks like a Tupperware stock I put on a Ranger. It is very clearly not a McMillan.

I bought two very Clean M70 Ranger rifles mostly for the flip up type sights shown in these pics. One is an '06, the other a .243.

I wanted synthetic stocks so I ordered one for the '06 (advertised as for a Featherweight) off the internet. It came in looking much like the one shown, that is to say no Schnabel. . Clearly it is Tupperware and a great fit for the Ranger barreled action. Oddly it had nickeled swivel bases on it.

I looked for a short action synthetic with a FW barrel channel with no luck. I bought one for a sporter barrel cannel and need to fill it.

I have two W70 push feed fwts with boxes bought new that I think may be parts clean up rifles? One is a 20"rig with barrel marked carbine, and the rifle has factory iron sights. The caliber is 270 and the stock is a schnable McMillan. Box says black synthetic stock--no mention of sights. Product # 23131, serial in the 1,792,xxx range. Circa 1986?

Second rifle is 22" 7mm mauser, serial range 2,054,xxx with walnut fwt stock, and iron sights mentioned on the box label---circa 1992? Barrel is marked featherweight in cursive. Product # 22187 on box.

Both rifles have late factory iron sights with the rear leaf on a raised block.
Sorry I do not know how to post pictures. Interesting gems I have enjoyed for 20 yrs plus!

That first rifle sounds really interesting; love to see pics if you ever figure out how. Can’t imagine there are many floating around in that configuration.

Which stock are you referring to? If the OPs stock, you're correct. However, the two stocks AK posted are both McMillan stocks (the 06 and the 7mag). There were three different stocks used on Winlites from 2 stock makers. As posted above 2 flavors of McMillan were most common. When stocks became hard to source from McMillan, Winchester had Brown Precision make some stocks for the Winlites. Regardless, neither stock AK posted above is plastic.