Now that I’ve taken my new rife hunting I thought an update was in order.

After my first 10 min of hunting I discovered a flaw with my new Winchester M-70 rifle that I thought you folks might like to know about

When the safety is set in the Intermediate position (the trigger is locked but you can still work the bolt) I discovered that the bolt is very loose. I never noticed this at the range. It is so loose in fact that it fell open and expelled a few rounds when I put the rifle over my shoulder. The bold was so loose with the intermediate safety set, that I found it impossible to use. Even sitting still, the bolt would gradually creep up forcing me to use the full safety setting. So rather than a quick flip of the thumb, I had to rotate the safety all the way around. This is a pain in the neck, noisy and time consuming to accomplish. Just to be clear, I was only using the intermediate safety setting when I was in a “ready to shoot” mode, I always use the full safety when walking or stalking.

Not being happy I took the gun back to store where I purchased it. They agreed that I have an issue and sent it back to Winchester. That was 2 weeks ago and I've not heard a word.

Has any else experienced this with a Model 70?