That! might worth looking into...thanks.
Ron

ITC? or ITD in Minerva Ohio, run by a super guy named Dave ?

Not familiar with an ITC shop by that name, where are they located?
Ron

Why not buy a .25-06 and have your 'smith shorten and rechamber it? It's a whole lot cheaper in the end.

Colt, look on the butt pad or the side of the barrel and see if it sez U S Repeating Arms aka USRAC, or Winchester.

USRAC was an interim ownership that only lasted a couple years that took over production at the New Haven plant during the break up of The Winchester Company. The ammo plants went one way under Olin Corp, who was driving the deal as ammo was 90% of the revenue stream, along with the Miroku Japanese made O/U's & SxS's, and the BA Rifle & US Made Lever Action, Shotgun & Rimfire Company went under the USRAC name, along with the re introduciton of the Featherweight line.

Both USRAC and later Winchester made an XTR line, which was a styling package & Push Feed only series.

FN Herstal bought out the New Haven Winchester plant, and later re org'ed the line under Browning's management & renamed that company as BACO of Morgan UT, closed the New Haven plant in a labor dispute and to avoid the lawsuit over the Patent infringement on the royalty to the gun writer who claimed ownership of the WSM concept on the intro of the WSM's..and moved M70 et al production to the new FN South Carolina plant after a couple years per the settlement is what I heard.

Colt: could you post a picture of your rifle? I've never seen, or even heard of, a M70 sporter XTR in 257. Thx.

I specifically wanted a 1-8 twist, its kind of like "you like ford, I like chevy"

Winchester M70 are around in 257 Bob, as are Kimbers. Only problem I see with them is price. 1300 is a little high for the Cabela's 50th edition IMO but are nice rifles. They do have a M70 super grade for only 50 more in 7x57.

Buds has a Ruger #1 International in 257 Roberts for $1073