.243 Winchester Super Grade Featherweight Rifle - 1957

This is a Super Grade Featherweight rifle chambered in .243. The rifle came to our shop as a box of parts. The box included the stock, barrel and bottom metal, but lacked an action, which apparently went into another project. That kind of thinking is a head-scratcher to us, as the Super Grade Featherweight is one of the most rare of all model 70s. To dismantle it and use the action elsewhere is truly inexplicable.  Regardless, the remaining Super Grade Featherweight parts were all in very good or restorable condition, so we have proceeded to make it back into a complete rifle. The stock is an original Super Grade Featherweight stock in restored condition. We removed a Pachmayr recoil pad and installed a red Winchester pad.  The stock has been refinished and is in perfect condition. The barrel is rust blued and in perfect condition. The bore grades near perfect at 9/10 with no appreciable wear, no heat damage, no erosion, no pits, and barely any evidence it has been shot. The bottom met