Wreck-n-Crew
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If reliability, operating and maintenance ease are important, get the Winchester. Model 70 actions have been the base for wood stocked match rifles that shot test groups smaller that modern big stiff ones used in benchrest have yet to equal.
Impressive to say the least. I have always been fond of the Model 70. Awesome trigger and actions.At 600 yards:
* Phase one was several 10-shot groups all under 1.5 inches, smallest about .7 inch.
* Phase two was one 40-shot group at 1.925".
Pre '64 Win 70 action trued up bolt and receiver faces bedded in a P.J. Wright walnut stock, Hart 1:11 twist 26" barrel with WCC58 match cases full length sized with 42 grains of IMR4064 under Lapua D46 185-gr. match bullets; rifle clamped in free recoiling machine rest.
Mid Tompkins, early 1971. A fall issue of the American Rifleman magazine that year pictured one 10-shot group about .8 inch in a Lapua Bullet advertisement.