I asked Winchester about this. They say the New Haven Plant records do not have that information. I do know they were NOT common to come through as stainless barrel and action and wood stock. The synthetic stock Model 70s I feel are not as desirable as the new say Model 70 Ultimate Shadow which I have a photo of on this site under Ultimate Shadow. The wood stocked variant is a whole 'nother story!

It is a combination that should be brought back. In terms of finding one used.....good luck. I tried for four months checking every source I know about. I was told "Yes they made them, not many and the do not come up for sale. They are now "highly rated and scarse!" So that is the verdict. They should be re-introduced. CHuck Hawks and MANY other writers and MANY customers I talk to say.....Give me a wood stocked rifle or a wooden laminate, not a synthetic.

However I myself bought a new Ultimate Shadow .243 and set out to restock it with a Boyd Black Laminate. I built FOUR replacement stocks for it. They are all Black Laminate short action stocks, they all fitted perfectly and looked GREAT. However they ALL were heavier and longer than the Ultimate Shadow Synthetic stock. We then set out to try to shape one just like the Winchester Ultimate Shadow stock and found it was going to cost a FORTUNE to set up the Pattern Maker and CNC machine to cut the replacement stock in the Black Laminate if the swoopy lines on the molded stock were to be retained! Those molded stock lines were adorable!!! Again the photo of this can be seen on a big ice block (we handle thousands of 540 to 760 pound ice blocks each winter which you can see on Black Sky Entertainment on U Tube). I would LOVE to see Winchester do such a stock! However it would have to be put on a stainless barrel and action!

And for you to be able to get one in left hand? Amazing!

According to my recent checks if you wanted a Winchester Model 70 in stainless with a walnut stock it would be a simple matter if it were fairly new model you wanted.....you could order a walnut stock for a Featherweight and replace a synthetic stock with the wood stock. This may be what I do in the near future. I already have four replacement Black laminate stocks fitted to my Ultimate Shadow SS .243. A photo of that rifle is shown on the Post I started named Ultimate Shadow SS. You could also do the same switch with a Chromoly Blued action and barrel or a satin blued barrel and action. Also a Featherweight Compact stock could be fitted to shorten the stock or get a different grain or stock detail. I think in the future Winchester will make this option available through the Arnold Missouri Repair shop. One advantage you could quickly reduce the length of pull. Midas youth models by Browning are intentionally set up to do such switches.

Interesting thread here....

I picked up a used Model 70 Classic in 300 Win Mag a while back, stainless with the synthetic stock. Boyd's does some nice work and after looking at a new FN M70 Sporter at a LGS, I'm convinced they might be using Boyd's themselves. Looks and feels very much like a stock I have on another rifle.

My question is, since I have a post-64 CRF "Classic", would it use a pre-64 stock or something different? As it has a different action from the standard post-64, I would imagine it would be something different.

Thanks,

Kansan

One of the most frequent requests at Morgan Utah was Winchester Model 70 in Stainless Steel barrel and Action. So this year 2018 saw a number of these rifles introduced by Winchester. From a Super Grade to Featherweight, Stainless barrel and action and even two very popular Maple stocks. I have several of those and ordered the Shot Show Special Dark Maple Featherweight Stainless. They look like they will be awesome. The ONLY Model 70 notbavailable in Stainless barrel and action and wood stock is the Compact! To me that would have been a GREAT youth, ladies, or older guy rifle. Chuck Hawks on the Internet states that is his usual deer hunting rifle. In .243,6.5,or 7 mm08, that would be a perfect woods rifle!

I was just trying to find a new Win 70 Super Grade Stainless in 7mm Rem Mag and came up short at Cabela's so I went with it's brother, the Browning X-Bolt White Gold Medallion. I still had to special order it and have not received it yet. I had a bunch of rewards points on my Cabela's card which made the price unbelievable and that's why I didn't special order the Win through my local FFL. I have a Win 70 Featherweight in 30-06, a X-Bolt Hells Canyon Speed in 300 WSM and love both of them.

For the 2018 Shot Show a Model 70 Featherweight is being made in Stainless Steel,Barrel and Action and that includes the now almost most popular 6.5 Creedmore. The stock though is Grade 1 Walnut. Some come through fairly nice but it is a standard grade Walnut. The MSRP though makes this classic SS Model 70 a very good deal. In my experience these rifles could be the best Model 70s ever produced short of Super Grades or Commeratives. The current rifles are amazingly accurate.