In the late 1960's, when I was a high school kid, Dad collected all the M70 "slick barrels" (no sights). They were sold before Dad died in 93. Through the years Dad and I probably had 30-40 M70s besides the slick barrels. I decided against "collecting" years ago, but I still have three, all nice shooters from the early 50's. 30-06 std, 270, std, 308 fwt. Selling a bunch of 70's helped finance my kids college and some of my target pistols. Years ago Dad bench fired a 3" group at 500 yards with a well worn 270 std. We had a few 54's too. One early 54 I had (std 30-06) with a peep would shoot 1" groups at 100. (I had good eyes in the 1970's). Probably the worst move of all was Dad finding an in the box, in the grease 358 fwt, and he shot it. Also Dad hogged out under the barrel and filled the forearm with epoxy and lead shot. That little 358 kicked like a mule.