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Winchester Model 70 Featherweight Compact 243Win 20″ Barrel Black Walnut

$1,399.99

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The Featherweight Compact carries on the Model 70® Featherweight heritage. This deluxe, refined model is an excellent choice for smaller-framed shooters, ladies, young people or hunters who prefer a compact, light mountain rifle. Its comfortable, smaller platform instills confidence in shooters because it fits them better than a full-sized rifle. The Compact Model 70 action has Pre-’64 controlled round feeding, the easy-to-use Three-Position Safety and a jeweled bolt body with knurled bolt handle. The M.O.A.™ Trigger System is easily adjustable and has no take-up, creep or overtravel. The Featherweight Compact, with its 20″ barrel and fast, flat-shooting calibers, starts young shooters off right with a rifle possessing all the deluxe features of the Featherweight. It’s a rifle to train with, hunt with, have fun with and pass down to the next generation.

Features:

  • Satin Finish Walnut Stock with Classic Featherweight Cut Checkering and Schnabel Forearm create the iconic Featherweight look
  • Polished Metal Surfaces add style and elegance
  • Alloy One-Piece Bottom Metal adds rigidity for better accuracy
  • Forged Steel Receiver with Integral Recoil Lug is Bedded Front and Rear to eliminate shifts in zero for exceptional long-range accuracy
  • Pre-’64 Style Controlled Round Feed with Claw Extractor fully controls cartridge from magazine, to chamber, to ejection
  • Three-Position Safety shows safety status at a glance
  • 20″ Cold Hammer-Forged Free-Floating Featherweight Profile Barrel for years of pinpoint accuracy
  • Recessed Target Crown enhances accuracy and protects the rifling
  • M.O.A. Trigger System with zero take-up, zero creep and zero overtravel gives you outstanding accuracy
  • Blade-Type Ejector for full control of ejection force
  • PACHMAYR® DECELERATOR® Recoil Pad for optimal protection against felt recoil

Additional Information:

It’s still the Rifleman’s Rifle. No other bolt-action in history can inspire the passion, command the loyalty or create a sense of excitement among dedicated marksmen like the Model 70.® Since 1936 it’s been the benchmark against which every other bolt-action rifle is measured. Discover the rifleman’s rifle for yourself.

Three-quarters of a century of total performance is what comes with every Winchester Model 70. Today’s Model 70 has the addition of the M.O.A.™ Trigger System, improved fit and finish and enhanced accuracy to go along with its classic Pre-’64 controlled round feeding. It is all there: Three-Position Safety and solid, sure handling. The M.O.A. Trigger helps the model 70 deliver the extreme accuracy benchmark 1″ group at 100 yards. It’s what you deserve.

The Model 70’s new M.O.A. Trigger System is the most precise three-lever trigger system in the world. Operating on a simple pivoting lever principle, the trigger mechanism has been completely redesigned to exhibit zero take up, zero creep and zero overtravel. The pull weight ranges from 3 to 5 pounds and is factory-set at 3 3/4 pounds. Because of the enhanced ergonomics, wide smooth triggerpiece and 2:1 mechanical advantage created by the unique design geometry, it actually feels like half that weight. Click “Read More” below for the rest of the story.

The Model 70’s new M.O.A. Trigger System is the most precise three-lever trigger system in the world. Operating on a simple pivoting lever principle, the trigger mechanism has been completely redesigned to exhibit zero take up, zero creep and zero overtravel. The pull weight ranges from 3 to 5 pounds and is factory-set at 3 3/4 pounds. Because of the enhanced ergonomics, wide smooth triggerpiece and 2:1 mechanical advantage created by the unique design geometry, it actually feels like half that weight. Click “Read More” below for the rest of the story.

Take up is the distance the triggerpiece travels prior to the sear moving toward release and the shooter feeling resistance. The new Model 70 M.O.A. Trigger System has no take up because the take up spring keeps the triggerpiece in constant contact with the actuator.

Creep is the perceptible movement of the trigger prior to the release of the firing pin or striker. Creep has a negative influence on accuracy because it adds inconsistency and uncertainty during the trigger pull. This contributes to jerking the trigger and thus adds to the movement of the firearm during firing. The 2:1 mechanical advantage created by the trigger design’s unique geometry is how creep has been virtually eliminated in the new Model 70 M.O.A. Trigger.

Overtravel is the rearward movement of the trigger after the firing pin or striker has been released. It can actually jar the gun away from its intended point of aim and is also very distracting to the shooter. That’s why the new Model 70 M.O.A. Trigger System is set at the factory to have no perceptible overtravel. Where you aim is where you shoot.

The Model 70 is no ordinary bolt action. The Model 70 still has the famous 3-position safety which is convenient to operate with the thumb of your firing hand, lifting the firing pin away from the sear. When the safety is in the intermediate or middle position, the action can still be operated, allowing unfired cartridges to be cycled with the safety on. It’s smooth to engage and easily identifies the safety status of the rifle.

A blade-type ejector gives you full control when ejecting a fired case. If you pull the bolt back slowly, the empty case doesn’t fly anywhere, so you can catch it in your hand and the case is not damaged as it hits the ground. If you pull the bolt back quickly, it ejects the cartridge with more force, throwing it well clear of the action.

The forged steel receiver starts as a forged from a solid block of steel. (What could be stronger?) This is expensive to do, but the regal Model 70 is worth it. Each finished forging is precisely machined, creating a strong, stiff and solid receiver that resists flexing and delivers uncanny accuracy. The bottom profile of this receiver is flat to offer greater surface area for bedding. It is bedded with a two-part epoxy in two places, at the front and rear to keep things from shifting around inside the stock during firing. Why all this trouble and time? So pinpoint accuracy is preserved.

If there were a single feature responsible for the Model 70 being known as the “Bolt-Action Rifle of the Century,” it would be the classic Controlled Round Feed (CRF) bolt design. This is a massive claw extractor that smoothly slips onto and secures about one-quarter of the base of the cartridge. This exerts full control over the cartridge from the time it leaves the magazine, as it enters the chamber, gripping tightly until the cartridge is fully ejected. This design also allows an unfired cartridge to be extracted even if it is not yet fully chambered. It’s another feature found on the Model 70.

Most rifles have a recoil lug that is installed between the barrel and the action, much like a washer on a bolt. It is a metal piece that extends below the receiver and fits into a matching recess in the stock. It helps spread out the hammering effects of recoil across a wider surface so the rifle won’t be damaged. The recoil lug in the Model 70 is not added during assembly. It’s forged and machined as part of the receiver. This allows the barrel to be trued in perfect alignment to the front ring of the receiver for greater accuracy. There is nothing to move or shift the barrel out of alignment, ever.

To accuracy is nearly impossible if a barrel is of low quality, either from inferior steel, poor workmanship or poor fit. Every Today, Model 70 barrel is button rifled in a process that assures superior accuracy and durability.

Free-floating a barrel in the stock means no part of the forearm area touches the barrel. The slightest pressure from the forearm as it cradles the barrel can adversely influence accuracy. Try pulling a dollar bill under your current rifle’s barrel. Does it slip all the way to the receiver without hangup? If not, you’re missing the kind of accuracy that produces results in the field.

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Caliber

243 Winchester

Manufacturer

Winchester

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