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<blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 402743" data-attributes="member: 412">Sure, my strong preference would be &quot;Classic&quot; actions from '92-06, the earlier the better with the old-style &quot;open&quot; trigger and I prefer Stainless Steel to blued chrome-moly.&nbsp; The downside is weight vs. a 700 footprint and in factory form, the mag-boxes are short in all but the Creed/PRC families and with McMillan bowing out of inletting for them, the aftermarket is small and expensive.&nbsp; In the short actions you can replace a standard 2.8&quot; mag box with a 3&quot; WSM box as they're still easily available.&nbsp; In long-actions you'd need to have rat-holed some &quot;H&amp;H&quot; mag-boxes to go from 3.34&quot; to 3.6&quot; COAL as well as the shorter H&amp;H bolt-stop and blade-ejector.&nbsp; Sub-10Min job moving box-guts, ejector, and bolt-stop around.&nbsp; Sub 2-min job to just swap boxes in the short action.The Red, White, and Blue rifle from my 1st post on this thread is a &quot;Winchester&quot;.&nbsp; It's stamped FN Herstal, but those stampings are the only thing &quot;FN&quot; about the rifle.&nbsp; It's a short-action M70 through and through.&nbsp; I also re-barreled a SS Classic from 7Rem Mag to 257Wby as it's just a barrel-swap, everything else stays the same.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SDMF, post: 402743, member: 412"] Sure, my strong preference would be "Classic" actions from '92-06, the earlier the better with the old-style "open" trigger and I prefer Stainless Steel to blued chrome-moly. The downside is weight vs. a 700 footprint and in factory form, the mag-boxes are short in all but the Creed/PRC families and with McMillan bowing out of inletting for them, the aftermarket is small and expensive. In the short actions you can replace a standard 2.8" mag box with a 3" WSM box as they're still easily available. In long-actions you'd need to have rat-holed some "H&H" mag-boxes to go from 3.34" to 3.6" COAL as well as the shorter H&H bolt-stop and blade-ejector. Sub-10Min job moving box-guts, ejector, and bolt-stop around. Sub 2-min job to just swap boxes in the short action. The Red, White, and Blue rifle from my 1st post on this thread is a "Winchester". It's stamped FN Herstal, but those stampings are the only thing "FN" about the rifle. It's a short-action M70 through and through. I also re-barreled a SS Classic from 7Rem Mag to 257Wby as it's just a barrel-swap, everything else stays the same. [/QUOTE]

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