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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468560
01/21/22 08:33 PM
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Both are beautiful, but it's hard to beat a good synthetic stock for hunting in weather, and rough country. You won't cry over plastic if you scratch it.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468561
01/21/22 08:34 PM
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$1,500 for just the stock?


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468563
01/21/22 08:35 PM
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A Super Grade should be high-grade walnut.

Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: old_newbie] #7468565
01/21/22 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by old_newbie
Both are beautiful, but it's hard to beat a good synthetic stock for hunting in weather, and rough country. You won't cry over plastic if you scratch it.

Lol....Them scratches are just beauty marks to me.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468567
01/21/22 08:36 PM
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JMO but blond maple says pool cue to me.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: 160user] #7468570
01/21/22 08:38 PM
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Un-stained curly maple should be illegal!


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468572
01/21/22 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce T
$1,500 for just the stock?


The whole rifle.


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468607
01/21/22 09:09 PM
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There's a scene in the movie The Highwaymen, where a gun store clerk asks Texas Marshall Frank Hamer (Kevin Costner) which gun(s) he wants. He answers, "All of them."

That's how I feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jevEf3U7Kws

Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: 160user] #7468611
01/21/22 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by 160user
Originally Posted by Bruce T
$1,500 for just the stock?


The whole rifle.

A Winchester super grade AAA model 70 winchester in 6.8 western is running at $1800.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468614
01/21/22 09:19 PM
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RECEIVER – Steel; Polished blued
BARREL – Hammer forged steel; Polished blued finish; Free-floating; Target crown
ACTION – M.O.A. Trigger System; Pre-64 action; Three-Position Safety; Controlled Round Feed; Controlled ejection
STOCK – Gloss finish AAAA Maple; Ebony forearm tip; Shadowline cheekpiece
FEATURES – “Super Grade” engraved hinged floorplate; Jeweled bolt body; Knurled bolt handle; Pachmayr Decelerator recoil pad; Sling swivel studs

Item Number
535218299
UPC
048702022326
Action Length
Short Action
Caliber
6.8 Western
Barrel Length
24"
Overall Length
44 1/4"
Length of Pull
13 3/4"
Drop at Comb
1/2"
Drop at Heel
1/2"
Weight
8 lbs 0 oz
Magazine Capacity
3
Twist Rate
8"
Barrel Finish
High Gloss
Stock Finish
Gloss
Wood Grade
AAAA
Receiver Finish
High Gloss
Chamber Finish
Polished
Barrel Material
Steel
Barrel Contour
Sporter
Stock Material
Maple
Recoil Pad
Pachmayr Decelerato


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468620
01/21/22 09:24 PM
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I handled one of the maple Super Grades a few years back. It sure was eye catching. I'd like to see one in birdseye. I'm old fashioned and love walnut and blued steel but that maple makes my heart flutter. It also gives me a twitch in my right arm that takes it toward my wallet.

Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468627
01/21/22 09:30 PM
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I like the darker wood. Seem like walnut will be stronger also.

Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468633
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The featherweight is running at $1,100.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468640
01/21/22 09:42 PM
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Barrels made today are consistently more accurate. In 1963 and older model 70's some rifles were tack drivers and some just adequate. Modern machining is almost unbelievably more precise. A newhouse 3 was a coyote catching machine in 1930 but a modern duke is a better trap performance wise. Those old model 70's were/are a marvel but just like with the old newhouse, improvements have been made.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468642
01/21/22 09:43 PM
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In the military learned oz. make pounds, pounds mean pain. Add on scope, mounts, swivels, sling and ammo then figure the weight. But that is military thinking however the older you get the more you feel it even getting it to the shoulder. Me never bought a gun for looks its all about performance and durability. You never mentioned the price difference?? What would that be just out of curiosity??

Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468644
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I have a soft spot for walnut but if i found the right deal maple is very nice too.


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468649
01/21/22 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Nessmuck
Blonde guns don’t do it for me,…..but then again ,Iam not the one buying it

Agreed. Put some aqua fortis on it and apply some heat. Make that curl pop.
Originally Posted by Nessmuck



Originally Posted by headache73
I'm a sucker for a featherweight. To me that maple looks cheap....


I agree on that. Curley Maple should look like this…

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Originally Posted by mauser06
Un-stained curly maple should be illegal!


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You fellas have better cameras than I do...

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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: danvee] #7468651
01/21/22 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by danvee
In the military learned oz. make pounds, pounds mean pain. Add on scope, mounts, swivels, sling and ammo then figure the weight. But that is military thinking however the older you get the more you feel it even getting it to the shoulder. Me never bought a gun for looks its all about performance and durability. You never mentioned the price difference?? What would that be just out of curiosity??

Maple super grade 6.8 western around $1,800 and the walnut featherweight 6.8 western around $1,100


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Bruce T] #7468670
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Top one top one top one .


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Re: Model 70 super grade maple or walnut featherweight [Re: Providence Farm] #7468740
01/21/22 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Providence Farm
I like the darker wood. Seem like walnut will be stronger also.


According to the charts maple is stronger than walnut it’s also a little heavier.

One thing I didn’t see mentioned, is recoil, that cartridge with 175gr bullets is going to be comparable to a 300 Winchester short mag. Be a shame to have to put a muzzle break on the featherweight.
I like both walnut and maple but the maple stock in the picture is a poor example of 4A (unequal figure, left vs right).
Ammunition Will be an issue. Plan accordingly. Just ask anyone that owns a RSAUM 7mm or 300 lol
Good luck and congratulations on the new rifle witch ever you choose. Hope it shoots clover leafs.


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