Wanted: Factory Win. 70 Cocking Piece

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Kevin Cram

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I'm in search of a factory original Winchester model 70 cocking piece. I got in a older high power rifle, and the safety didn't work. I was told it had a Tubb speedlock firing pin in it that was installed by Tubbs. Sure enough it did have a speedlock, but with a factory cocking piece. This must be a old model before he started making the cocking piece. Anyway, I set-up to make the cut for the safety and damn it if I didn't take just a little too much. Know with the safety on you can pull the trigger and the firing pin drops a little. When the safety is pushed off the firing pin falls, Not Good. I got a Tubb speedlock cocking piece, and when I installed it it would even cock. Upon further investigation I found that the trigger sear was ground forward about .06" than a factory trigger sear, and the Tubbs cocking piece is ground too far back to pick it up at all. Now I'm in search of a factory cocking piece to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
M70 Cocking Piece

Please send me a private message and maybe I can help you.
 
On a lot of the older M70 high power guns, the safety was not even used. Not necessarily a good idea but done anyway. The sear surface on the cocking piece was ground back to facilitate bolt/trigger timing rendering the safety unusable. Your problem sounds as if the opposite is true and in order to make the safety usable, it sounds like you need to remove a bit more from the forward section of the original cocking piece. This is not such a big problem that could be fixed easily. Email me if you are interested.

Jim
 
I think JACK FIRST has them

That company is in Rapid City South Dakota
 
Factory Model 70 Cocking piece

Last summer a 1969 model 70 was brught to me to fix the safety. Originally I was going to order a new factory cocking piece. I am a federally licensed gunsmith and Winchester would not sell me a cocking piece. I reground the existing cocking piece and the customer has been shooting it without any problems. I don't think, Brownells, MidwayUSA, or e-gunparts sell a model 70 cocking piece. The Tubb cocking piece and firing pin was the only replacement cocking piece I have seen available for a model 70.
Rustystud
 
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I did manage to find a factory original complete firing pin at a Empire Gunshop in Danville, PA. I drilled out the pin and unthreaded the cocking piece. Cleaned up the threads, attached it on the speedlock firing pin, drilld the hole for the pin (I found out you need a solid carbide bit to do this as the cocking piece is extremely hard) Everything else went together fine and the safety works perfect. Thanks to all.
 
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