I bought a new post-64 Model 70 Winchester in .338 when I was in Vietnam from a dealer in Iowa. When I returned home I took the new gun out of the original box and walked through town on the way to the town dump to try her out,carrying her on my shoulder. I fired 7 shots and on the 8th the forend flew into several pieces some of them hitting me in the face. I took it home and reconstructed the stock and they had let a stock leave the plant with a 3 inch open seasoning check in the barrel channel almost an 8th of an inch wide out the door. There was even stock finish in the check. I sent it back and they replaced the stock for nothing. Some one was surely asleep on that one at New Haven.I had no further problems with the gun.
