The only rifle I have ever sold was a Winchester M70 Featherweight with the controlled feed action.
Firstly it was horribly inaccurate. This model at the time was pretty much known for terrible "accuracy". I'm talking about 6 inch "groups" at 100 yards. I had it glass bedded, the barrel free floated, changed the mounts and changed the scope. No better, so sold it off.
Secondly as part of trying to perfect handloads for it, seated bullets to touch the lands. A bullet ended up getting pulled out of its case when ejected, so the powder spilled through out the action. It took SO LONG to remove ALL the powder grains, as the action would not work without all the powder totally being removed. Never had the problem with the military designed Mausers. And also have never seated bullets to actually touch the lands in any rifle and especially not a hunting rifle.
Some of my other bolt action rifles shoot as well as 1/4 of an inch, most shoot better than 1 MOA. 6 MOA is ridiculous for any factory to release.
I accept other models probably shoot a lot better but ...
I just like Mausers anyway and would have a multi barrel M98 instead of an M03 if it was affordable for me.
-------------------- John aka NitroX
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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
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