Today,
My favorite is a Winchester M70 Stealth in .223 Rem. This rifle is about as high quality that you will find in the mass manufactured sub $1,000.00 range. She sports the push feed action. I'd love to have the CRF or CRPF action but then the only real advantage would be plucking the brass from the action rather than the brass ending up in the Sabine River like all push feeds. I'm shooting hand loads and she groups many loads 40 grain, 50 grain, 55 grain in the .5 or less range. With the 1-9 twist, she stabilizes the heavy 69 grain Sierras so that you won't embarrass yourself on the range when shooting 300 plus yards. Very heavy barrel, hefty rifle, all black rather mean in appearance, good balance although most of my shooting comes off of a Harris bi-pod or a shooting bench. She shoots like a Cadillac! So smooth in fact, on the bench, I manage to squeeze the trigger shoulder/hands free for those extra long shots and the scope does not touch my eye. The .223 will give you long barrel life, important to those of us that would rather shoot than have the rifle spend the week off at Mr. Gunsmith. My brother has the same rifle in .308 Win. MMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm. That's his vote. Right out of the box, clean her and have the trigger adjusted.
