Model 70 from the good old days

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:36 am
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...

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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.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:09 pm
what a gorgeous gun, the wood looks amazing. these guns a re truly a work of art.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:02 pm
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".

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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.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:07 pm
Hi another Michigander and MarlinOwners Thats one awesome rifle!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:29 pm
thats a reallllllllly cool picture.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:33 pm
Thanks for posting Maudite.....very nice picture!

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:53 pm
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.


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:39 am
I've got a few of those myself, they all have taken game...

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:26 am
That is a beautiful collection. Any of them in odd calibers?

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Welcome to the Winchester Owners Forum !!

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:31 pm
Maudite wrote:That is a beautiful collection. Any of them in odd calibers?

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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

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:58 pm
Very cool pics!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:55 pm
love your collection of model 70's

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:08 am
Thanks. I think the 22 Hornet and 257 Robts qualify as unusual calibers. Some would say rare even.

Great bunch of rifles.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:29 am
AWESOME! :D
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:49 pm
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.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:18 pm
That is what it's all about!
Thank you for sharing with us
Thats a fine specimen of what a 70 is
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DEMENTED PEOPLE PLAY WITH POWERFUL TOYS

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