Winchester Model 70 (pre-64)

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Biesen?

 

[skywag]

Biesen?

JK Cloward

 

[centerlineseal]

If the 70 was a 300 H&H it would have been coming home....

3 decades ago, my brother passed and I was tasked with disposing of his firearm, two of which were M70s. I kept the 338 Winny as I could afford it (it had been rode hard and put up wet, ... re-blued et al).

I really, really wanted his 300 H&H, nearly NIB with minor closet dings. Walked into the Houston Astrodome to a gunshow and it was like flies on the proverbial! Hated like hell to sell it.

The 338 has killed a few Idaho elk since.

 

[STORM2]

Took a 1961 pre in 308 last week. glad that hunt is over.

 

[Doug Casner]

The savages would my pick. 300 or 250. Got a nice .257 roberts my best one. Doug

 

[FNSafari]

The savages would my pick. 300 or 250. Got a nice .257 roberts my best one. Doug

I have a pre64 M70 .257 Roberts also, great gun, very accurate and mild recoil. Makes my Rem 722 .257 Rob look like a sewer pipe bolted to a piece of tree limb knocked down in a storm.

 

[butchlambert]

I have a pre64 M70 .257 Roberts also, great gun, very accurate and mild recoil. Makes my Rem 722 .257 Rob look like a sewer pipe bolted to a piece of tree limb knocked down in a storm.

I have Mike Walker's personal 722 in 257 Roberts. I am putting together a 1956 model pre64 Mod70 in 243. 2 pretty good old rifles.

 

[cuznguido]

Half Price Books is definitely worth a look

 

[FNSafari]

I have Mike Walker's personal 722 in 257 Roberts. I am putting together a 1956 model pre64 Mod70 in 243. 2 pretty good old rifles.

Butch,
I would enjoy seeing a pic of that gem. --Greg

 

[Liven The Dream]

That's a nice photo of a nice rifle. It's somewhat appropriate that you put Speer bullets through it, as Jack O'Connor, indelibly linked with the Model 70, had his home in Lewiston, Idaho at the end of his life. That's the town of both Speer Bullets and the Jack O'Connor Museum, and also where I was born and raised, and first fired my '61 Featherweight at age 10.

You might like this article about O'Connor and his Model 70s.

Jack O'Connor's Perfect Model 70

How Jack O'Connor's insight on the Winchester Model 70 helped shape the concept of the American classic rifle and continues to influence generations of big-game hunters.

www.outdoorlife.com

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Thanks for the reminder !
I hunted well with my Custom 98 in .270.

 

[butchlambert]

Butch,
I would enjoy seeing a pic of that gem. --Greg

It is an old Lyman Alaskan scope. I asked him about the pretty wood. Mike said when you control the woodbox, you can pick the best of what Remington had.

 

[Albany Mountain]

I have a pre64 M70 .257 Roberts also, great gun, very accurate and mild recoil. Makes my Rem 722 .257 Rob look like a sewer pipe bolted to a piece of tree limb knocked down in a storm.

Love the one I got from dad in a pre-war super-grade in 257 Roberts

 

[FNSafari]

Lovely Butch! Remington was lucky to have had his talents!