Winchester Model 70 Featherweight .30-06 Springfield
Model: 535200228
Winchester Model 70 Featherweight .30-06 Springfield
Model: 535200228
Full Specifications
About This Firearm
The Winchester Model 70 Featherweight is a walnut-stocked bolt-action .30-06 Springfield built for carrying on deer and elk hunts. It has an MSRP of $1,369.99. Its action feeds the pre-'64 way, with a claw extractor that keeps hold of the cartridge all the way out of the magazine, so a round can be chambered and pulled back out with the rifle tipped on its side.
It has no sights and no muzzle thread, so an optic comes first and a suppressor means a gunsmith. The receiver is forged steel with an integral recoil lug, bedded front and rear, and the barrel free-floats to a recessed target crown. Five rounds sit in an internal magazine under one-piece alloy bottom metal. The M.O.A. trigger leaves the factory at 3.5 lbs and the owner can take it down to 3 lbs, and a three-position safety sits at the right rear of the action.
If you're cross-shopping, the Ruger M77 Hawkeye Hunter has an MSRP of $1,499 and feeds the same controlled-round way, but it is stainless at 7.40 lbs and it arrives with a sloped Picatinny rail and a threaded muzzle. The Browning X-Bolt 2 Hunter has an MSRP of $1,249.99 and uses a detachable rotary magazine. The Winchester holds one more round than either of those two.
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Strengths & Limitations
- A blade-type ejector throws the case out to the side, clear of a low-mounted scope.
- The bottom metal is one piece of alloy, so the magazine box and trigger guard go in as a single part instead of separate castings.
- Winchester gives the Featherweight an angled comb, which lines the eye up behind a scope without a cheek riser.
- The walnut stock has no comb or length adjustment, so the fit is whatever the factory shaped.
- The trigger adjusts down to 3 lbs and no further, so a lighter break means an aftermarket trigger.
- It is 42.75 inches overall, which is a long rifle to swing inside a box blind.
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.30-06 Springfield Ballistics →Frequently Asked Questions
Which scope bases fit it?
Standard Model 70 long-action bases. Winchester cuts the receiver for that hole spacing, so a one-piece rail or two-piece rings both go on.
Which rifles have the M.O.A. trigger?
Rifles made in 2008 and newer. Winchester's manual identifies the screw furthest from the action as the pull weight adjustment and the nearer one as overtravel.
Is the .270 Winchester Featherweight the same rifle?
Winchester gives the .30-06 and .270 Winchester Featherweights the same barrel length, overall length, length of pull, weight, capacity and action length, so the two differ by chambering.
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