- Nov 3, 2010
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I’ll preface by saying I don’t know hardly anything about
M70s except what I have read here from some members that have them.
Or maybe not even ish? What’s the input of the vintage experts and not so experts on a retro mod style M70?
First with the action. Pre64 or post, does it truly matter if I don’t want a clone correct? If I understand correctly, the post 68 or so models are push feed. Is there any inherent issues with that platform that I haven’t see or heard about?
Next is the barrel/caliber. I want it done in 308, somewhere along the lines of 20-22 inches. I want it threaded with a seamless (or seamless as possible) thread protector. I would ideally like an iron sight mount on the barrel as well.
Scope: Do the barrel block mounted Unertls impact accuracy so much that it would negate using a nice modern barrel blank, say bartlein or something along those lines. I’m not partial to either style, both are acceptable for me, but the older style is a little more interesting to me.
And before we get the “why” in the way. Simply because I can is why, I like different. Besides pissing off the purists, what am I missing that would make this build not perform as it should.
M70s except what I have read here from some members that have them.
Or maybe not even ish? What’s the input of the vintage experts and not so experts on a retro mod style M70?
First with the action. Pre64 or post, does it truly matter if I don’t want a clone correct? If I understand correctly, the post 68 or so models are push feed. Is there any inherent issues with that platform that I haven’t see or heard about?
Next is the barrel/caliber. I want it done in 308, somewhere along the lines of 20-22 inches. I want it threaded with a seamless (or seamless as possible) thread protector. I would ideally like an iron sight mount on the barrel as well.
Scope: Do the barrel block mounted Unertls impact accuracy so much that it would negate using a nice modern barrel blank, say bartlein or something along those lines. I’m not partial to either style, both are acceptable for me, but the older style is a little more interesting to me.
And before we get the “why” in the way. Simply because I can is why, I like different. Besides pissing off the purists, what am I missing that would make this build not perform as it should.
