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Model 70 22-250 High Grade Walnut
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September 17, 2024 - 1:20 am
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Not necessarily, since post-63 barrels were of a heavier profile, although typically shorter, e.g. 22″ instead of 24″. 

However, the post-63 action was notably longer than its predecessor, long enough to accommodate not only the short magnum cartridges like the 7mm Remington and 300 Winchester magnums but also the full length 300 and 375 Holland and the 300 Weatherby rounds.  The receiver frame was shaped differently than the original action and was designed to be stiffer to increase accuracy, which it did.  

I don’t know whether the action inletting would vary between, say, the 7mm Rem Mag and the 22-250, but I doubt it. The barrel channel might or might not. At a guess, I would bet a donut WRA used a single barrel profile for all 64-71 Model 70 production, except for the 375 and 458 caliber rifles, to keep costs down. If somebody knows differently, please correct me.  

If that is the case, your 22-250 barreled action could well have just dropped into a conttemporary stock with double crossbolts. 

There is a more interesting possibility, given the spectacular grain and color your stock displays. Even though it has double crossbolts,  an admiring company employee with enough mojo to make it happen, might have ordered the stock mated to a 22-250 barreled action and purchased it privately. From my reading, that sort of diversion was not unknown in New Haven, particularly among the company’s executive officers. 

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I found this folded up in behind the butt plate. I was excited to see this, looks like it’s been there since 1972. However to my slight disappointment it appears to perhaps be the receipt for the upgraded stock that he purchased in ’72?20240917_113600.jpgImage Enlarger

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Who was the vendor?

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Name on the receipt appears to be Peter D Dutton, that name ring a bell with anyone?

 

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TXGunNut said
Name on the receipt appears to be Peter D Dutton, that name ring a bell with anyone?

 

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Not to me.  Can I assume the receipt looks like a sale by a non-commercial person to our guy?  That would explain the two cross-bolts.  Or maybe Dutton was a stockmaker and this was a take-off stock? 

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Zebulon said

TXGunNut said

Name on the receipt appears to be Peter D Dutton, that name ring a bell with anyone?

 

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Not to me.  Can I assume the receipt looks like a sale by a non-commercial person to our guy?  That would explain the two cross-bolts.  Or maybe Dutton was a stockmaker and this was a take-off stock? 

  

Seems to me that was a bunch of money for a stock in 1972. I haven’t had any early M70’s out of their stocks but I was impressed by the finish of the barrel channel. I didn’t expect to see that level of finish on a factory stock.

 

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