Winchester Model 70 Featherweight Compact

About the Winchester Model 70 Featherweight Compact

The Winchester Model 70 Featherweight Compact is a bolt-action hunting rifle built on the short-action Model 70 platform for smaller-framed shooters, youth hunters, and those who favor a lightweight mountain rifle. It pairs a 20-inch Featherweight-contour free-floating barrel with a satin-finish Grade I black walnut stock featuring a shortened 13-inch length of pull, classic Featherweight cut checkering, and a Schnabel fore-end. Like all modern Model 70s it retains pre-'64 controlled round feed with a Mauser-style claw extractor, a three-position safety, and the adjustable M.O.A. Trigger System.

The Model 70 has been called 'The Rifleman's Rifle' since its 1936 introduction; the controlled-round-feed action revered by hunters is the pre-'64 design that Winchester reinstated on its modern rifles.

Winchester Model 70 Featherweight Compact specifications

The Compact shortens the length of pull to 13 inches versus the standard Featherweight's 13.75 inches and uses a 20-inch barrel in place of the standard 22-inch. Offered in short-action chamberings including .22-250 Rem., .243 Win., 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.8 Western, 7mm-08 Rem., .308 Win., and 6.5 PRC.