Bushy, congrats on booking your safari.

As for your Model 70, if it were mine I'd just shoot it for a while and see how it does. Not all Model 70s need work as they come from the factory. Many if not most of them work quite nicely right out of the box.

If your rifle works when you shoot it, then shoot it some more, and keep on shooting it a lot more, until you know it will work every time.

mickey, I'm curious about your bad experience with NECG. What went wrong? Was it quality of work, price, timeliness, quality of customer service or something else in particular? I know they do a fair amount of gunsmithing business and they are right up the road from me.

The only business I've done with them is that I've ordered a few parts from them.