My New Model 70 Super Grade


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:43 am
Iskra:

I agree with your Post. I have been looking at the prices of Pre 64 SG and they are certainly too expensive to take out in the field, much less "extended field excursions". Being that I am not in the tax bracket required to buy a Pre 64, I would be looking for a New Haven model, before the plant closed in 2006. My goal would be to buy a high quality rifle that I can actually afford. My recent purchase of a Model 70 Classic in SS and Composite stock was purchased specifically to hunt in the ever changing weather in central PA. I can't be concerned with rain that turns to snow, wind, and other uncomfortable weather situation when my purpose is to concentrate on game. I am very particular about my equipment, but it doesn't do me too much good sitting in a gun cabinet all the time.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:00 am
I have purposely used the Super Grade .243 Shot Show Special Winchester Model 70 rifle in as hostile settings as possible. Snow, Ice, rain, etc.. In comparison I have also done that (weather permitting..that is BAD enough) with a new Model 70 Ultimate Shadow SS .243. My take on it is the two rifles are very weather tolerant. It is usually the people that give in. Scratches show MORE on the synthetic stocks than on the wood stocked rifle. I have the photos (very detailed) to prove that. On the other hand most would look at scratches on a synthetic stock and say "I don't care". I have seen some very old Super Grade Winchesters. They were not as select wood on the stocks and that is fact.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:18 am
DaveyJ

I am not all that concerned about scratches and marks on my Model 70 Composite stock. I didn't buy it to shine it. I take care of my equipment, but rifles I use at the Range and in the field are going to have some signs of use no matter how careful I am with the rifle.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:11 pm
AN ADDENDUM APOLOGY!
Somehow in my original post immediately above, I'd submitted a draft rather than a 'final' post. Confusing, poor grammar and more than a few places nonsensical! I no longer have the original final edition, but have quickly edited the above post to form a cogent restatement.
I do apologize for the many errors and the waste of member's time in trying to interpret virtual nonsense! An embarrassed take!

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:27 pm
redryder wrote:Jim,

Perhaps you thought I was referring to the house furniture by using "Furniture". Was referring to the wood on your 70.

Thanks redryer now I get it. I shot a nice buck with it at 200 yards, it dropped him like a rock.Now I need to take it out west for a nice elk .
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:48 am
Post a photo of your hunting trophy in our hunting sub forum jimmitch !!

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:12 pm
This is my Tiger Striped Super Grade Model 70 .243 Shot Show Special. This rifle is wonderfully accurate!
The workmanship is truly amazing for the price. The action is super smooth. This is the quality current Model 70s are capable of being!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:54 pm
DaveyJ wrote:This is my Tiger Striped Super Grade Model 70 .243 Shot Show Special. This rifle is wonderfully accurate!
The workmanship is truly amazing for the price. The action is super smooth. This is the quality current Model 70s are capable of being!


Your SG shown here certainly ranks among the most spectacular, read that as beautiful, tiger striping I've seen. Congrats on a truly beautifully stocked gun! But just a point of clarification please, concerning your "shot show special" context. Was this a 'one off' rifle or one of a special genre? Recent show, recent acquisition? I think it merits an 'acquisition moment' story! :)

Thanks for sharing and...
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 8:52 am
To Iskra: This was a Shot Show Special for 2014. The day of the Shot Show I was told about that by Joe and Rick at the Winchester Call Center in Utah. I immediately called the Kittery Trading Post in Kittery Maine and asked if they had put in an order for that rifle. I did say I was after a tiger striped American Walnut stock. Since I had NEVER seen a Super grade Winchester Model 70 with less than a phenomenal Stock I decided that whatever they sent to Kittery, and it was to come with a 22" barrel which my friend Jack O'Connor preferred for a Hunting Rifle (title of his 1970 book) which he sent to me when I had been drafted into the US Army, I'd be pleased with whatever I got. Then I waited and finally found out the rifle was in. I went and picked it up in Kittery for my 70th Birthday Present to myself... I already had been sent some photos of the rifle. It will shoot quite a few rounds and stay RIGHT on target. It though is my heaviest Model 70 Winchester. Even heavier than a .243 with a 24" barrel that was made in 1987. I have subjected that rifle purposely to some adverse weather. The rifle could get scratched but there are none yet and I have refinished any of my wooden stock Winchesters and feel a hand rubbed oil finish rework is an easy project.....but that is "winter" work here!

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:28 am
This is a coyote (62 pounds with a very nice coat I shot at 5:30am last early winter. This was the .243 Super Grade Shot show special .243 with the tiger striped stock. It has a Leupold 3x9 VX II scope on it. One shot at about 125 yards. I do use these wooden stocked rifles pretty heavy and will just sand the stock and put a hand rubbed oil finish if it comes to that. No marks on the stock as yet. It also is amazingly accurate. This rifle was built by Winchester FN Hershel in 2014. It is fairly heavy though for a 22 inch barrel rifle, part of the reason is a very dense stock.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:12 pm
DaveyJ wrote:This is my Tiger Striped Super Grade Model 70 .243 Shot Show Special. This rifle is wonderfully accurate!
The workmanship is truly amazing for the price. The action is super smooth. This is the quality current Model 70s are capable of being!

That's a great looking Super Grade for sure, Davey.The workmanship on these new Super Grades is just great for the price .I love mine, it shoots out to 400 and 500 hundred yards .I can't wait for the new season to start.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:05 am
To jimmitch.......your 7mm Rem Magnum Super grade looks awesome. It seems to have a really complex burled grain which is great. I find these rifles very capable of shooting out to 500 yards. I also am certain that any slight stock finish problems could be totally reversed by sanding the stock and putting on a hand rubbed oil finish like the Birchwood Casey Finish. I can even adjust the color with that finish. Always better to leave the factory stock finish until you want to fix it since it is very durable and requires very low maintenance. The hand rubbed finishes do require a little more work. My friend Jack O'Connor totally preferred the hand rubbed finishes. Your Super grade and mine though came with a modern finish that looks great and requires less work to keep it that way. Experts like Chuck Hawks are very critical of molded stocks as they new don't look that good and over time do not hold up as well as many think they will. I shy away from the 7mm Rem Magnum due to recoil but it is one of the best magnums available anywhere.

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