GuyWithGun
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Have been reading you guys' posts for a long time and I dig this site! Had some tech questions and figured I would finally register and start here for info.
I have a newly manufactured Winchester 70 in .338 Win mag that is proving to be an issue. It never really shot that well (3 moa at 100y was the BEST it ever did with any load) and took it to a gun smith several times for various adjustments and other things. At the end of the day, has just gotten to be more trouble than is worth. Started looking around for new 338 Win and the recoil thing kept nagging at me, so looked into .338-06 or 35 Whelen... 35 Whelen won. Looked at actions and old 30-06 class rifles to build it out of and then remembered I have a perfectly good (presumable) Model 70 long action to build it out of. The issues start there:
1) The gunsmith I had working on it bedded the barrel in an attempt to "stiffen up the barrel". It helped but not much, put up the gun and didn;t think too much of it until I tried to take it appart recently... silly guy had glued to barrel to the stock with the epoxy. Not sure if it was intentional or not, but didn't fix the accuracy problem and now can't get the gun appart. How does one fix that? Can it be done without screwing up the Bell and Carlson stock I kind of like and would rather not mess up?
2) How to you convert the bolt from .338 wign to .30-06. New assembles from Winchester are kinda steep, is there another way to do it?
Thanks,
Eric
I have a newly manufactured Winchester 70 in .338 Win mag that is proving to be an issue. It never really shot that well (3 moa at 100y was the BEST it ever did with any load) and took it to a gun smith several times for various adjustments and other things. At the end of the day, has just gotten to be more trouble than is worth. Started looking around for new 338 Win and the recoil thing kept nagging at me, so looked into .338-06 or 35 Whelen... 35 Whelen won. Looked at actions and old 30-06 class rifles to build it out of and then remembered I have a perfectly good (presumable) Model 70 long action to build it out of. The issues start there:
1) The gunsmith I had working on it bedded the barrel in an attempt to "stiffen up the barrel". It helped but not much, put up the gun and didn;t think too much of it until I tried to take it appart recently... silly guy had glued to barrel to the stock with the epoxy. Not sure if it was intentional or not, but didn't fix the accuracy problem and now can't get the gun appart. How does one fix that? Can it be done without screwing up the Bell and Carlson stock I kind of like and would rather not mess up?
2) How to you convert the bolt from .338 wign to .30-06. New assembles from Winchester are kinda steep, is there another way to do it?
Thanks,
Eric