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One cartridge that has peaked my interest in the past year is the 7mm PRC designed by Hornady. I am a fan of the 280 Remington with a 22 inch barrel and I could never quite get into the 280 AI because it has a 40 degree shoulder and is usually chambered in a 24 inch barrel. If I was going for...

I've been hunting with a 30-06 for more years than most of the High Road members are old. At one point in time I owned 6 of them but sad to say I'm down to only two. My favorite I call my "Hammer Gun" because it really hammers anything I shoot at. I have a good supply of Sierra and Nosler...

I know the feeling of having a hunting rifle that you like and some hunters go their entire lifetime and never find a rifle they are happy with. Your choices in putting that rifle together really worked. Good rifle, good cartridge, good scope and good recoil pad. A+

I live in eastern Oklahoma and IMR 4350 has been available for the past three years at my lgs and selling for $55 per pound and that includes sales tax. Also, I was at the Tulsa Gun Show Saturday and I noticed a table selling IMR 4350 for $55 per pound. Hodgon powders seem to be more available...

During March I mixed whole corn and creep feed in one feeder and corn and AntlerMax in another feeder. The feeder with the creep feed had mostly doe and young bucks, and the feeder with the corn and AntlerMax had all the big bucks. The second time I put feed out I did the same thing and the...

I was talking about the era before range finders were available. The only way to judge distance before rangefinders was to estimate the distance half way to the deer and double the distance. If you're used to seeing 200+ pound bucks at 300 yards and a 150 pound buck shows up it is easy to...

When I was young and ignorant I was using a 270 and reading Jack O'Connor it was said that if you were shooting at an animal at distances over 300 yards to place the horizontal line on the reticle level with the top of the animals back and that would allow the bullet to drop into the kill zone...

This is a great looking quality rifle with smooth lines with a user friendly design. If you compare this rifle to the new rifles being sold in gun stores today it is easy to see why we continue to love these old rifles. Missing from this picture are the plastics, composites, fiberglass, rails...

Ole Jack was loading the 130 grain Partition with 60 or 62 grains of military surplus 4831 but that was a different powder than IMR 4831. I remember when DuPont started marketing IMR 4831 and thinking it was the same as military surplus I stuck in a stiff charge and really flattened some...

Although I had a 270 Weatherby Magnum earlier I bought my first 270 Winchester in 1978 and what struck me up front was how easy it was to find accurate loads. Everything I loaded gave MOA accuracy and for years the 270 was my base line for accuracy when comparing it to other calibers. I've...

Your mention of that Redfield Widefield brought back memories to me because it was like looking at a TV screen. I had one in 6 power on a 25-06 and when I bought it I thought I had found something really good but after a year or so I ended up taking it off the rifle. I was a really good shot...

There was a noted gun writer named Jim Zumbo who lived and hunted around Vernal, Utah who bought a Model 70 just like yours in the 1960's and hunted with it for many years. He wrote a book named "Hunting America's Mule Deer" that was interesting and I liked to read what he wrote. As he got...

One way you can increase your enjoyment in shooting a rifle like the 30-06 is to double up on your hearing protection. As I got older I started using both ear plugs and ear muffs at the same time and it was a big improvement in handling the noise. Also, I shoot a 338-06 often that has sharper...

The pre 64 Model 70 featherweight is my choice of hunting rifles and I have tried several others. When you install your scope the easy way to make sure it is level with the rifle is to point the vertical line of the reticle straight down toward the center of the bolt. The firing pin is in the...

Another thing I need to tell you is about your rifle stock. The stock on your rifle is made of Missouri American walnut and the wood in your stock is quarter sawed. That means that you can see the growth rings of the wood from each side of the stock and this makes a really solid stock for a...

A 3-9 x 40 Leupold is a good choice and it works with a Winchester 70 because the distance between the eyepiece and objective ends are just right for the spacing of the Leupold rings. And, there's an old saying about a 30-06 that's still true. "If a 30-06 won't shoot a good group with a 150...

You sure can. And you can tell by the color of the barrel that the gunsmith took the sights off and re-blued the barrel. He did a super fine polishing job polishing the barrel. Good pictures. I like the barrels better without sights and that one looks good. The only down side to a barrel...

I'm really interested in these rifles so I am glad to help. A 30-06 is a good cartridge and I have carried a Winchester 70 featherweight 30-06 rifles many miles and taken many deer with them. Does the barrel say Winchester on the side? The word Winchester will be on the left side of the...

There were 24,248 Model 70 rifles manufactured in 1959 and you have one of them. The 1959 serial numbers went from 440,793 to 465,040. I personally really like the Model 70 featherweight for hunting and you have bought a very choice rifle. You didn't say what caliber you have but it doesn't...