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Cute old iron!

Posted By: 160user

Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:02 PM

I thought some of you may appreciate seeing some real American rifles that aren’t plastic. All pre-64 model 70’s, 2 of them are pre-war rifles.
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Posted By: Kevin Colpetzer

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:06 PM

Love those old model 70s with the steel butt plates
Posted By: beartooth trapr

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:09 PM

Love it, one of them was the first hi-powered rifles i ever shot.
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:15 PM

From back when things were made to last!
Posted By: Flint Hill fur

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:17 PM

Very nice
Posted By: Antarctica

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:27 PM

Awesome!! I'd be thrilled to own just one!
Posted By: ZAC

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:38 PM

Beautiful guns! It’s a shame you lost them all in that boating accident. 😔
Posted By: Leftlane

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:41 PM

I like them in usin condition like that- they were made for clocking in and doin some work!
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/28/20 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by ZAC
Beautiful guns! It’s a shame you lost them all in that boating accident. 😔


These aren’t mine, I just enjoyed seeing them and thought others may too.
Posted By: 4zebra61

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 12:57 AM

Dang Rob, those are sweet, I’d take one of those over a black rifle any day!
Posted By: cmcf

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 12:58 AM

Yup! The rifleman’s rifles. Know where there are a couple of lefties. Classics pre sixty four actions the.270 might be the first off the line in that production run according to the serial number. But I may just imagining it whistle
Posted By: cbat

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 01:13 AM

My late deer hunting partner had around 150 Pre 64s in various calibers. I hate to think of what became of them. He had some serious pristine rifles.
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 01:14 AM

Beautiful. I'd love to own any of them!
Posted By: Donnie H

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 01:16 AM

Nice !!!
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 01:17 AM

I think the bottom one, a 1955 featherweight 308 with a receiver sight was my favorite but the 264 was a close second!
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by cbat
My late deer hunting partner had around 150 Pre 64s in various calibers. I hate to think of what became of them. He had some serious pristine rifles.


That would be an amazing collection to see!
Posted By: Northof50

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 02:55 AM

Well at least this way nobody is drooling over them......just their putters.
nice Friday night viewing entertainment

I hope that shipping box does not mean something awful is going to happen.
Posted By: Pawnee

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 02:57 AM

Very nice!!!!
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Northof50
Well at least this way nobody is drooling over them......just their putters.
nice Friday night viewing entertainment

I hope that shipping box does not mean something awful is going to happen.


Nope, it just had a Tupperware rifle in it and it would have ruined the picture.
Posted By: Leftlane

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by 160user
I think the bottom one, a 1955 featherweight 308 with a receiver sight was my favorite but the 264 was a close second!


I'd give your 2nd favorite a good home I promise. She would feel loved and appreciated for the rest of my days and if I know my son the rest of his too
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by 160user
From back when things were made to last!

Truth
Posted By: MnMan

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 01:48 PM

You gotta know that I would appreciate them. How many are in the .300 H&H for jump shooting fawns? Good stuff right there.
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by MnMan
You gotta know that I would appreciate them. How many are in the .300 H&H for jump shooting fawns? Good stuff right there.


The Magnum 300 isn’t in that picture. Pictured there is a FW 308, standard 264, FW 270, pre-war 30 GOVT 06, pre-war 270 WCF and a 30-06 shooter with fully engraved floor plate.
Posted By: Zim

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 02:52 PM

Rob, did they make a M70 in 35 Whelen?

Zim
Posted By: cotton

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 03:06 PM

years ago my boss at the time sent me to fix some thing on a house for a long time customer.
had to go in the attic to fix a fan and had to go though the master bedroom to get up there. home owner was sick and in the bed, i opend the door and started hearing angels singing. was rifle racks lined up all over the bedroom and was pre64 model 70's everywhere the eyes looked. pushed my eyes back in my head and went on up to start working and had to move some model 70 boxes out of the to get to the fan, even some of those boxes had rifles in em. the man owned over 300 model 70' and most were supergrades!!!!!
just had to ask him about them and that started an hour long tour of his collection. think his dad had started the collection he had spent most of his life working on it and making it bigger and better.
not long ago i was wondering how his kids handled it after he was gone
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 03:34 PM

Iam drooling.....A customer of mine is a pre 64 model 70 NUT. I bet he has 20 of them....he’s getting up there in age,I told him I want first dibs ,if he wanted to part with one in .270
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by Zim
Rob, did they make a M70 in 35 Whelen?

Zim


Definitely not in a pre-64 but I don’t believe I have seen one in a post 64 either.
Posted By: ebsurveyor

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 04:22 PM

I've had my fair share. Might be able to find a 264 & a couple of 30-06's. Sold most of them. Some of my favorites that went down the road, a bunch of 270's including my only super grade, pre-war hornet, various featherweights, 300 win mag, etc.....
Posted By: 160user

Re: Cute old iron! - 08/29/20 06:24 PM

They sure don’t make quality like that anymore!
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