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Old 11-06-2007, 08:08 PM
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Briman
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Default RE: The Win 70 Is Back

If you want a great 70 type rifle go with the Kimber 8400 standard(long action). You won't be sorry and it will be better than anything Browning/ Winchester puts out.
It will take many years of Winchester manufacturing a quality product before I will buy.
FN has already been making Win Mod 70s for awhile now and much higher quality ones than made at the New Haven plant. They aren't exactly hunting rifles but are precision rifles known as the SPR and Patrol rifle. The SPR was good enough to become the rifle of choice for the FBI's HRT. FWIW, Kimber has come out with their own clone of the FN SPR recently, it might be close to being as good as the FN model, but its much more expensive.
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