THE ONE PRE 64 MODEL 70 BOOK..
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:17 am
The Internet can provide much information concerning the 'collectible' pre '64 model 70.
Exemplary is "Collecting Winchester Pre-64 Model 70 Rifles - By Wayne R. Miller"
Yet I wanted to provide a short book list on the subject and here the very good news.
ESSENTIALLY A SINGLE BOOK about does it all. Titled "The Rifleman's Rifle", by Roger Rule. this single publication is the seminal work on the subject. There are few gun books about which such a recommendation can be made. Something of a 'one stop' that covers about everything of this rifle genre. This is a detailed ‘tech’ book, not just lazy afternoon reading with a beer. (Or maybe tech with a beer.) It’s a continual reference book and well-illustrated at that! What more to recommend. For the 70 evolution through tech specs’ it has it all.
Well, of course, there has to be at least a small downside. It’s a bit pricy!. I just checked Amazon and it’s about $94, but other listed vendors there are offering it new in the $60ies. Further, as far as I know it’s not a matter of the typical “bigger, better, updated, expanded” on the basic material. (There is allegedly a new publication of it which includes the Post 63 models too.)
Next, all said, there was an earlier work by Dean Whitaker on the same subject. I have both books and in comparison, the Rule book, pun noted, takes the field. The Whitaker book is sort of a ‘nice to have’ yet adds noting substantial, is relatively rare and priced higher that the Rule book.
The net, net here is whether your interest is sufficient, consider acquiring the Rule book! If buying it isn't in your ‘Rule book’, check out the possibility of an Inter-Library loan; likely a few bucks postage for a couple of weeks enjoyable exploration... and take notes!
OK, you say, but what about the Model 70 predecessor, the Model 54? Well... the Rule book above does have a very good chapter on the Model 54. That aside, there's a great Website by the same Wayne miller referenced in the above Internet reference: "Long Live The Model 54 Winchester", by Wayne R. Miller
‘Nuff said' and…My take
Exemplary is "Collecting Winchester Pre-64 Model 70 Rifles - By Wayne R. Miller"
Yet I wanted to provide a short book list on the subject and here the very good news.
ESSENTIALLY A SINGLE BOOK about does it all. Titled "The Rifleman's Rifle", by Roger Rule. this single publication is the seminal work on the subject. There are few gun books about which such a recommendation can be made. Something of a 'one stop' that covers about everything of this rifle genre. This is a detailed ‘tech’ book, not just lazy afternoon reading with a beer. (Or maybe tech with a beer.) It’s a continual reference book and well-illustrated at that! What more to recommend. For the 70 evolution through tech specs’ it has it all.
Well, of course, there has to be at least a small downside. It’s a bit pricy!. I just checked Amazon and it’s about $94, but other listed vendors there are offering it new in the $60ies. Further, as far as I know it’s not a matter of the typical “bigger, better, updated, expanded” on the basic material. (There is allegedly a new publication of it which includes the Post 63 models too.)
Next, all said, there was an earlier work by Dean Whitaker on the same subject. I have both books and in comparison, the Rule book, pun noted, takes the field. The Whitaker book is sort of a ‘nice to have’ yet adds noting substantial, is relatively rare and priced higher that the Rule book.
The net, net here is whether your interest is sufficient, consider acquiring the Rule book! If buying it isn't in your ‘Rule book’, check out the possibility of an Inter-Library loan; likely a few bucks postage for a couple of weeks enjoyable exploration... and take notes!
OK, you say, but what about the Model 70 predecessor, the Model 54? Well... the Rule book above does have a very good chapter on the Model 54. That aside, there's a great Website by the same Wayne miller referenced in the above Internet reference: "Long Live The Model 54 Winchester", by Wayne R. Miller
‘Nuff said' and…My take