Description
The Model 70 Super Grade 6.5 Creedmoor is the top of the Model 70 line, and it looks it. Grade AAA French walnut, a high-polish blued barrel and receiver, a jeweled bolt slide and 20 lines-per-inch checkering put it in a category few production rifles reach anymore.
Underneath the wood it is still the rifle riflemen have called the Rifleman’s Rifle since 1936: a controlled round feed action with a Mauser-style claw extractor and a three-position safety. Chambering it in 6.5 Creedmoor pairs that classic action with a modern, mild, extremely accurate cartridge.
Model 70 Super Grade 6.5 Creedmoor Barrel and Action
The 22-inch free-floating barrel is button rifled with a 1:8 twist, which stabilizes the long, high-BC bullets that make 6.5 Creedmoor worth shooting. The muzzle wears a recessed target crown, and the barrel and receiver share a high-gloss blued finish.
The Model 70 action is pre-64 style controlled round feed: the cartridge is captured by the claw extractor as it leaves the magazine and held all the way into the chamber. That is why dangerous-game guides have preferred this action for ninety years, and it costs nothing on a deer rifle.
Stock, Trigger and Details
The stock is Grade AAA French walnut with a shadowline cheekpiece and 20 LPI checkering, finished with a gloss blue steel pistol grip cap and steel sling swivel studs. Length of pull is 13.75 inches, and a Pachmayr Decelerator pad handles what little recoil 6.5 Creedmoor produces.
Feeding is from a hinged floorplate magazine holding four rounds, which keeps the classic lines intact with no detachable box hanging below the stock. The M.O.A. three-lever trigger is a genuinely good factory trigger with no take-up and no creep.
Specifications
- Model: Model 70 Super Grade
- Manufacturer part number: 535239289
- Caliber: 6.5 Creedmoor
- Capacity: 4+1, hinged floorplate magazine
- Barrel length: 22 in., free floating
- Twist rate: 1:8 in.
- Overall length: 42.25 in.
- Weight: 7 lbs 12 oz.
- Length of pull: 13.75 in.
- Action: controlled round feed bolt action, three-position safety
- Trigger: M.O.A. three-lever
- Stock: Grade AAA French walnut, 20 LPI checkering
- Finish: high polish blued barrel and receiver, jeweled bolt slide
- Recoil pad: Pachmayr Decelerator
- UPC: 048702018558
Why Controlled Round Feed Still Matters
Push-feed actions work fine most of the time. Controlled round feed works when you short-stroke the bolt, when the rifle is upside down, or when you are cycling in a hurry with cold hands. The claw extractor grabs the case rim as it leaves the magazine and does not let go.
It also gives the Model 70 its distinctive feel. The bolt runs with a mechanical certainty that push-feed rifles do not replicate, and it is a large part of why people keep these rifles for a lifetime.
Why Buyers Choose It
Grade AAA walnut is not a marketing term. It is a real grading standard, and figured French walnut of this quality on a production rifle has become genuinely rare as most makers moved to polymer and laminate.
The rifle is also entirely practical. 6.5 Creedmoor recoils mildly enough for a full day at the bench, factory match and hunting ammunition is everywhere, and the 22-inch barrel keeps the rifle handy in the field.
Who Should Buy It
This rifle suits the hunter who wants a heirloom-quality walnut rifle rather than a tool, the collector who follows the Model 70 line, and the shooter who wants one beautiful, accurate rifle instead of several plain ones.
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