Winchester 75T

[BHS Rifle Team]

Re: Winchester Model 75

« on: 01:35 PM, 04/20/12 »

In the '50s I was on the Burbank High Rifle Team and in the Rifle Club. I usually shot a Winchester 75T. When the program was discontinued in 1962 I was able to buy that rifle for $35. I just came across the receipt yesterday in my safe deposit box.

 

[DanConzo]

BHS-Very interesting, let's see a picture of that 75, some of us love looking at those old good rifles.

 

[1Merlin]

Wow... That is cool. Nice rifle,

 

[Joe D]

I will let you make $10 profit on me - $45. ;D

 

[bheadboy]

man what memories, 1950 on the ROTC rifle team at N. Fulton high in Atlanta we had GI Springfield 22s and my dad gave me a 75T for birthday. i later purchased a 75 sporter, -- 3 college kids and they had to go.

my -would i like to have that 75T now

Bob

 

[nfhjr62]

Was on my High School Rifle Team had ten Rem. 513T with Redfield front and rear Palma sights, this was in the 60's in Philadelphia Pa. never had any weird looks on the bus ride home from the Armory on Broad Street Subway then on the ride onthe bus to my High School on Monday morning.

 

[Shynloco]

Re: Winchester Model 75

« on: 01:35 PM, 04/20/12 »

In the '50s I was on the Burbank High Rifle Team and in the Rifle Club. I usually shot a Winchester 75T. When the program was discontinued in 1962 I was able to buy that rifle for $35. I just came across the receipt yesterday in my safe deposit box.

AH yes...1962 - Hoover High School - Glendale. They were all gone when it got to me. Those were definitely fun times growing up.

 

[snert]

I worked for a local LE office. One day an older gent came by to say he had a "gun to donate". We did not take donations, but I was curious. Turned out he was coach of local High School team which shut down in 76. He retired in 82. Apparently this rifle was taken home for repair in the early 70's and fell over behind a piece of plywood in his garage, where it lay till 2005. He was moving and discovered it and knew that the local high school did not want it! He just wanted it to go to a good home...old CMP gun.

So a person near and dear to me became the owner of a Rem 513 T. It appeared that no one owned a cleaning kit at that school. The sear was chipped, so $75 dollars later for a new sear, trigger guard and acetone, sandpaper and Tru-oil and my rem 513T shoots pretty well. Thought about putting irons on it, but the sights alone will triple the cost of the gun!

 

[Joe D]

We shot Winchester 52s on the Columbia Military Academy team.

 

[bheadboy]

JOe D

we had springfield at Sewanee Mil academy, how did you rate the 52b- hump!! we did have Garrands

Bob

 

[Joe D]

Don't know. I just remember looking at my rifle when I first received it. It said Winchester 52. I think it was either a C or D model. We shot the A17 target. I remember during the tryouts I shot a perfect score - 100.

 

[DaveWhite]

My high school (Mt. Lebanon in the Pittsburgh area) team shot 52's over the course of 30 or 40 years until they were upgraded to Anschutzs in the early 1990's. They are still shooting Anschutzs today. The 75 was what some might have called a ladies gun, as they had a much lighter overall weight. That said, the ladies on the Lebo teams tended to shoot very well with the 52s...

 

[BHS Rifle Team]

BHS-Very interesting, let's see a picture of that 75, some of us love looking at those old good rifles.


As requested.

 

[1Merlin]

Very nice......

 

[DanConzo]

BHS--It's a beauty. Thanks for posting picture.