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Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:36 amby Maudite
I wanted to share a picture or two with you all, but I am no good at reading directions and worse at following them- so forgive me I fail at posting a picture here.... or I mess it up some other way...
Its my Dad's model 70 from 1950, with a Weaver 2-7x scope and a post/crosshair reticle.... and of course Iron Sighter See Thru mounts. Dad being a WW2 and Korea Marine veteran did not want to depend on a scope.
Seems to have worked.... might be a tad large tho.
More to follow. I inherited a nice bunch- split them with my sister who is a deer slayer and a half.
M
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:09 pmby stags30
what a gorgeous gun, the wood looks amazing. these guns a re truly a work of art.
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:02 pmby Maudite
Here's picture of Dad's model 70 at work. Sitting in the blind and staring down at a notorious button buck we have named "bonehead".
If he lives til next year he should have some nice first year antlers- his bases are big for a youngster and he's been rubbing them and rutting himself up like crazy this year. He's an annoying, bleating, tear up the woods kinda so and so. Fun to watch but he doesn't help the bowhunting with all those antics.
Anyway- that old Weaver scope just goes great with Dad's model 70- a perfect pairing.
M
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:07 pmby GUNNER_D
Hi another Michigander and MarlinOwners Thats one awesome rifle!!!
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:29 pmby stags30
thats a reallllllllly cool picture.
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:33 pmby Ridgerunner665
Thanks for posting Maudite.....very nice picture!
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:53 pmby Maudite
Hi Ridgerunner
Thanks for pointing out this sight. Thanks to my Dad I have almost as many Winchesters as I do Marlins.... he owned both, but really preferred the Winchesters.
M
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:39 amby Shrapnel
I've got a few of those myself, they all have taken game...
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:26 amby Maudite
That is a beautiful collection. Any of them in odd calibers?
M
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:49 pmby SHOOTER13
Welcome to the Winchester Owners Forum !!
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:31 pmby Shrapnel
Maudite wrote:That is a beautiful collection. Any of them in odd calibers?
M
I don't know what you would consider odd, They are from the top down:
1950 30-06
1949 .270
1953 257 Roberts
1941 22 Hornet
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:58 pmby broma345
Very cool pics!
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:55 pmby stags30
love your collection of model 70's
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:08 amby Maudite
Thanks. I think the 22 Hornet and 257 Robts qualify as unusual calibers. Some would say rare even.
Great bunch of rifles.
M
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:29 amby GUNNER_D
AWESOME!
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:49 pmby jaeger777
Beautiful rifle and rifles (Shrapnel). What I miss most from that era is not the firearms as much as the advertising that went with them. It was true artwork that made you want to get out and use the products. Today if there is any "artwork" it is a photograph and doesn't evoke any emotions--at least with me. Back then artwork was even used on ammo boxes. Is it lack of talent or imagination? Anyway great looking rifles that will always be classics.
Re: Model 70 from the good old days
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Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:18 pmby thunderfx
That is what it's all about!
Thank you for sharing with us
Thats a fine specimen of what a 70 is