Vern Humphrey
Member
I am definitely a Winchester fan. But I had a bad experience.
Bigfoot Wallace, my custom '03 Springfield in .35 Brown-Whelen has a Mashburn trigger -- an enclosed design with a lot of tiny parts. One elk hunt in nasty weather and dropping temperatures, the trigger mechanism froze up.
For the rest of the hunt I carried my pre-64 Model 70 in .30-06. With its open trigger design it worked fine.
The new Model 70s have an enclosed trigger like the Mashburn, and until they offer the option of the old trigger design, I won't be buying one.
Bigfoot Wallace, my custom '03 Springfield in .35 Brown-Whelen has a Mashburn trigger -- an enclosed design with a lot of tiny parts. One elk hunt in nasty weather and dropping temperatures, the trigger mechanism froze up.
For the rest of the hunt I carried my pre-64 Model 70 in .30-06. With its open trigger design it worked fine.
The new Model 70s have an enclosed trigger like the Mashburn, and until they offer the option of the old trigger design, I won't be buying one.