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<blockquote data-quote="Ian M" data-source="post: 42781" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>Three acquaintances recently bought Win. M-70 Stealths, two in .308 Win and a .22-250. I have had the opportunity to check them over as they came out of the box, and to shoot them a bit. Still not finished but I can honestly say that the accuracy of these rifles is excellent. </p><p>The .22-250 is shooting one holers in the range of .3 to .5 for five at 100 yards with 55 Sierras and Varget. We broke in a .308 yesterday and after about 75 rounds we shot a couple of groups with Federal 168 Gold Medal match. One group had 4 rounds in 0.120" with one right out of the group to make it 0.436" My friend is just getting into this game and I think he choked after the first three shots just made the hole blacker. He shanked the fourth round but got the last shot back into the group.</p><p>Out of the box, these rifles will not shoot like that. Triggers were 7.5, 7.0 and 6.5 with enough creep and overtravel to make shooting next to impossible. I find M-70 triggers very easy to work with, prefer them over most designs. Easy to get to 2.5-3 pounds, almost no creep or o'travel and they stay there.</p><p>My biggest gripe is the fact that ALL of the stock bolts were finger tight only (barely snugged) - this is very common with most American made brands these days. How in hell a rifle is expected to shoot with loose stock bolts I can not figure, but someone obviously doesn't give a ****.</p><p>I replaced the cheezy new-style stock bolts with B-Squares, ground them to fit properly and torqued the suckers to 65 in/lb. One big difference in these short actions is the fact that the rear trigger guard bolt no longer goes all the up through the tang, there is no hole straight through the tang like the pushfeeds and long actions.</p><p>All in all these rifles are proving to be extremely accurate - the potential is there if you work on them. I would be interested to hear pros and cons from anyone else who is shooting a Stealth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ian M, post: 42781, member: 25"] Three acquaintances recently bought Win. M-70 Stealths, two in .308 Win and a .22-250. I have had the opportunity to check them over as they came out of the box, and to shoot them a bit. Still not finished but I can honestly say that the accuracy of these rifles is excellent. The .22-250 is shooting one holers in the range of .3 to .5 for five at 100 yards with 55 Sierras and Varget. We broke in a .308 yesterday and after about 75 rounds we shot a couple of groups with Federal 168 Gold Medal match. One group had 4 rounds in 0.120" with one right out of the group to make it 0.436" My friend is just getting into this game and I think he choked after the first three shots just made the hole blacker. He shanked the fourth round but got the last shot back into the group. Out of the box, these rifles will not shoot like that. Triggers were 7.5, 7.0 and 6.5 with enough creep and overtravel to make shooting next to impossible. I find M-70 triggers very easy to work with, prefer them over most designs. Easy to get to 2.5-3 pounds, almost no creep or o'travel and they stay there. My biggest gripe is the fact that ALL of the stock bolts were finger tight only (barely snugged) - this is very common with most American made brands these days. How in hell a rifle is expected to shoot with loose stock bolts I can not figure, but someone obviously doesn't give a ****. I replaced the cheezy new-style stock bolts with B-Squares, ground them to fit properly and torqued the suckers to 65 in/lb. One big difference in these short actions is the fact that the rear trigger guard bolt no longer goes all the up through the tang, there is no hole straight through the tang like the pushfeeds and long actions. All in all these rifles are proving to be extremely accurate - the potential is there if you work on them. I would be interested to hear pros and cons from anyone else who is shooting a Stealth. [/QUOTE]
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