I have an early-1950's Winchester model 70 in .270 Family heirloom and it's my favorite rifle. I would like to take it mountain hunting in a modern lightweight stock both to save wear on the wood and to decrease the weight.
Does anyone know of a carbon fiber or similar type stock being made for pre-64's? I want something high quality because the gun shoots like a laser in the old wood and I don't want that to change.
Thanks,
Bruce
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No sure what you want to spend, I've read these are pretty good
P226 NSWG P220 W. German P239 SAS gen2 P6 1980 W. German P228 Nickel P365XL M400 SRP
May 02, 2026, 03:24 PM
RNshooter
Thanks! That is the only one I have found. Glad to hear they're well regarded. Any other options, I wonder?
Bruce
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
There are but you would be getting into some coin that would be on the lines of a custom build. You could get a flat top and have it inletted. I don't have a pre 64 but do have 3 win model 70. One a classic mid 90s CRF that I have at LRI getting converted to a featherweight from a sporter. You could give them a call, the stocking department, and see if they have a recommendation for a synthetic pre 64 stock.This message has been edited. Last edited by: hray,
P226 NSWG P220 W. German P239 SAS gen2 P6 1980 W. German P228 Nickel P365XL M400 SRP