Model 70 pre 64 stock

[TTE]

I have a couple of pre 64 Winchesters. One a 270 and one an 06.

Looking for a thumb hole stock for the 06, I can't seem to find one.

The 270 ... it originally came with a round medallion on the top of the butt stock. I'm looking for that medallion as well.

Appreciate any help

 

[TrapperBR549]

Sorry I cannot help you but would like to ask about the medallion. I cannot picture a medallion on any pre 64 M70's I have seen. Where was it located?

 

[TTE]

Sorry I cannot help you but would like to ask about the medallion. I cannot picture a medallion on any pre 64 M70's I have seen. Where was it located?

I saw a pic of 1 once but can"t find it now

 

[TrapperBR549]

Do you mean that is a pre'64 stock or that it fits a pre'64 M70? That does not look like a factory finished stock and I haven't ever seen a black recoil pad on a pre'64. I have a couple books at home I can check though, Winchester did some odd stuff.

 

[TTE]

Do you mean that is a pre'64 stock or that it fits a pre'64 M70? That does not look like a factory finished stock and I haven't ever seen a black recoil pad on a pre'64. I have a couple books at home I can check though, Winchester did some odd stuff.

That is the stock that was on it when I got it. Could have been refinished.

As I said, I did see a pic of a medallion there on a winchester stock previously.

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Ggmac]

Never seen a factory stock like that or one with a medallion.

 

[riflewoman]

In all my years of collecting Pre-64s I’ve never seen a stock like that. So my guess is that it was a replacement stock. It wasn’t uncommon in the 50s for restockers to put in a small escutcheon in these kind of places for the owner to get his initials engraved in them. Rather than a round ‘medallion’ shape it could have been anything. The next owner would have removed the small engraved escutcheon and put in a plug.

So this stock very likely wasn’t factory.

 

[Walt Krafft]

^^^^ this. Many times it was a small compass that was inlet into the stock.

 

[1K6BRA]

Typical look of a late 1940s early 1950s pre-64 model 70 stock. I do believe most if not all that had recoil pads from the factory were reddish in color. This one is circa 1949

 

[Doug Casner]

Pre war mod. 70s had a steel buttplate. Post war had black plastic. Some models had red pads with winchester on the back. I dont think thats a factory pad. Lop was 15 .5 if that helps. Doug

 

[mikeinct]

I just saw a nice custom Winchester model 70 Thumbhole stock from a 270 in Mike Goodmans shop in Pa. Contact GOODMAN ARMS. good luck. it was temping me to build a hot rod 284 Winchester on that beauty. Mike in Ct

 

[Doug Casner]

Sorry buddy. I said lop was 15.5 its 13.5 . Doug

 

[Doug Casner]

Winchester put steel butt plates on some after the war too. I looked at my vintage 1953 257 roberts and its got a steel butt plate. Ive learned messin with pre 64s you cant say they never did that, somebody will show you one. Doug

 

[TTE]

I just saw a nice custom Winchester model 70 Thumbhole stock from a 270 in Mike Goodmans shop in Pa. Contact GOODMAN ARMS. good luck. it was temping me to build a hot rod 284 Winchester on that beauty. Mike in Ct

Thank you Sir, .... I will give them a call in the morning.

 

[mikeinct]

One of the nicest gun guys I have ever met. He will treat you like family. mike in ct Ps. Please buy that stock he offered me, I really don't need a third build & two-re-barrel jobs this year.

 

[Spikefrb]

^^^^ this. Many times it was a small compass that was inlet into the stock.

Like this?
1941 pre-war M70
Cheers
Spikefrb

 

[Spikefrb]

Sorry...pic didnt attach