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?
Well, there isn't anything at all wrong with how your safety is working. It is doing exactly what it is suppose to do. The middle position is so that you can unload the rifle with the safety still engaged and so that you can take the bolt out of the rifle and disassemble it with out additional tools. That's it. It is loose like that because of the way the safety works. The safety pulls the ****ing (
C O C K ing) piece to the rear and holds it there completely separate from the trigger. When they are separated there is no tension on the ****ing (
C O C K ing) piece so the bolt is completely free of any tension what so ever.
If you always walk with the safety in the third position then how did you dump the rounds when you put it over your shoulder?
I'm not sure how time consuming rotating the safety could possible be but OK.
It's probably taking so long because they are all sitting there asking each other why in the hell you sent the rifle back to them. BTW, two weeks isn't a long time to wait to return a gun to the factory. They never come back in two weeks.
I realize that you may be new to rifles and are to the model 70, and the above wasn't meant to sound rude. Just razzing you a little. But seriously, if that gun store sent that rifle back for what you described then I would find another gun store to patron because they don't know a model 70 from a hole in the ground.
Stupid ass dirty word filter. It's a
C O C K ing piece for God's sake. Hey admin, a
C O C K ing piece is a part of a firearm and we are on a firearms forum. You also have to
C O C K a revolver to shoot it. Lever action rifles also have hammers that must be
C O C Ked in order to fire them.