Custom action based on pre-64 M70 action
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I would love a custom CRF M-70 style action. However, so few of us understand their advantages want them anymore that I doubt it will happen. I would want:
1. 4" internal mag box
2. Std Rem 700 footprint
3. Accept Rem 700 triggers
4. Flat bottom
5. Side bolt release
6. Three position safety
7. 1.125" dia tenon
8. 16 TPI threads
9. Std CRF M-70 96 degree cone breech (though you could talk me into a Mauser 98 style breech)
10. CRF M-70 style claw extractor and ejector
1. 4" internal mag box
2. Std Rem 700 footprint
3. Accept Rem 700 triggers
4. Flat bottom
5. Side bolt release
6. Three position safety
7. 1.125" dia tenon
8. 16 TPI threads
9. Std CRF M-70 96 degree cone breech (though you could talk me into a Mauser 98 style breech)
10. CRF M-70 style claw extractor and ejector
butchlambert
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It sure ain't a pre64 Mod 70.
3Sigma
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Completely agree.
I don't understand the love for 3 position safeties. A lot of the pre-64 70's I get to work on, have a safety that doesn't work anymore. Or worse yet, fires when it is released after the trigger has been pulled. IMO the safety needs to be part of the trigger.
Dusty Stevens
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I cant imagine anybody making a custom pre64 M70, but if you was to want something similar you can get a montana. I built on one one time. Had the same finish and similar tolerances.
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Bill Rodolph
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Walt, in all likelyhood, the trigger was "tuned" and they didn't know how to fix the safety after doing the trigger job.
Bill, I 100% agree. I just think a rifle should be designed better so that can't happen so frequently. Seems everybody with a Model 70 thinks they are a trigger expert.
Pretty sure MRC is no longer in business.I cant imagine anybody making a custom pre64 M70, but if you was to want something similar you can get a montana. I built on one one time. Had the same finish and similar tolerances.
Montana Rifle Actions from Montana Rifle Company
Montana Rifle Actions Highlights of the Model 1999 Action The Model 1999 Short Action The Model 1999 Long Action The Model 1999 PH Action The Model 1999 Bolt features
shortgrass
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Supposedly, MRC has an infusion of investment cash to up-grade their machine tools, and will be coming back sometime this year.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Theres a reason.
B Nettesheim
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Id buy 5 of them
I am not sure about that. Most guys I know are clueless about them. It's the Rem 700 owners that think they know how to tune a trigger--and it bounces off, or slam fires......
The M-70 three position safety is far superior to just about anything else out there. Of course it has to be in good mechanical condition. When it is engaged it blocks the firing pin, which is probably the most secure way to make a cocked bolt action safe.
Not trying to be a smartass at all, actually a Win kind of guy, but my simple mind says, "Why not just have a custom built on a M70 action?" Couple zillion Remington based customs out there, and no way is it a better action. I would go so far to say the Win is superior in almost all ways, but then I would be banished to the netherworld forever 
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Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Theres a reason nobody copies an m70- its not because its too good of an action.Not trying to be a smartass at all, actually a Win kind of guy, but my simple mind says, "Why not just have a custom built on a M70 action?" Couple zillion Remington based customs out there, and no way is it a better action. I would go so far to say the Win is superior in almost all ways, but then I would be banished to the netherworld forever
If you like that safety, they make 3position safeties for remingtons.
A model 70 with a savage trigger on it- theres a winning combo lol
nakneker
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If you like a pre 64 style action might just buy a good clean pre 64 action, unless there are traits of the action you don’t like or would like to change. I’ve had a couple beautiful rifles built on old pre 64s that shot extremely well and were pleasing to the eye. It’s a classic for sure.
Not trying to be a smartass at all, actually a Win kind of guy, but my simple mind says, "Why not just have a custom built on a M70 action?" Couple zillion Remington based customs out there, and no way is it a better action. I would go so far to say the Win is superior in almost all ways, but then I would be banished to the netherworld forever
That's what most of us do. It would however be nice to have one that meets the specs I posted.
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It's too expensive to make a CRF M-70 style action and the demand just isn't there anymore. A BAT Vesper is $1970, without trigger or bottom metal. That adds another $500-$600. We sell them quickly as BAT makes them for us. They are a simple design, VERY strong, and easy to fit barrels to.
I think a custom CRF action--a REAL CRF with the big claw, would run $500+ more. Some of us would buy them, most would not.
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