Winchester Model 70

What makes them great? Alright, with that, let's dig in, shall we? The first one, probably not a surprise.

The Winchester Model 70 Pre-64.

It's the rifleman's rifle, right? The rifleman's rifle.

I don't care what caliber you get it in, 270, 30-06.

It's a great firearm.

Very effective, very reliable, very smooth.

So we see a commonality right there with the Winchester Model 70 pre-64.

Let's talk about another one.

There's certainly those.

Your classic deer hunting rifles, Winchester Model 70, Remington 700, those are certainly not useless.

There are many other, again, subcategories of rifles that I didn't mention.

Um, but of the big ones that I did mention, which one should you have? Well, if you ha- if you're blessed to have the resources and, uh, the finances, all-- you should have a, a basic battery, which I've talked about before, but probably one of each one of these categories.

Imagine that you and I went to the local gun store and we bought...

I don't know, a pair of Remington 700s or a pair of Winchester Model 70s.

Right.

Both in .30-06, both sequentially serial numbered, made on the same day by the same craftsman, etc.

Despite all of the technology and precision of modern manufacturing capabilities, we know that each of those rifles, given the idiosyncrasies of a particular barrel, are going to have a particular preference for a different brand of ammo.

So your rifle, your .30-06, may prefer Winchester.

Mine may prefer Federal or Hornady or whatever the case may be.

It's just very rare that two are going to shoot the same ammunition equally well, right? Now let's take those two individual rifles with their two individual barrels and, again, all of their personalities and idiosyncrasies, and now let's permanently attach them together.

the .223 Rem, the .41 Rem Mag, .22-250 Rem, the .25-06 and the .17 Remington.

Winchester, at that time, they're manufacturing the Model 70, and they're chambering it in the .308 Winchester to the .243 Winchester.

At that time, Winchester brought out the .358 Winchester, the .458 Win Mag, the .264 Win Mag, the .338 Win Mag, the .22 WMRF, the .284 Winchester, and the .300 Winchester Magnum, and others.

1957, the U.S. Army adopted the 7.62x51mm NATO, for use in the M14.

So that's one way of looking at it.

2001, with hunters and riflemen flocking to lightweight short-action bolt rifles, Cartridge developers focus on short-cased rounds, magnums with fat cases released by Winchester, Remington, Hornady, Ruger, and calibers ranging from .243 to .338.

A lot of these are still popular, like the Winchester, the .300 Winchester short mag, and during that time, I picked up, always I'm a contrarian, I picked up a Winchester Model 70 Classic Action in the 7mm Winchester short mag.

And that one didn't last very long in the marketplace.

You can get it with whatever you want, and it will work quite well for you.

And I think the best out of the rifle box for the money is going to be the Winchester Model 70 Safari Express.

Sure

can't really argue with that.

you know, there you've got a price of a shotgun, if you would, where you can buy your 375.

I'm like you.

I'd probably, if I had the money, I'd go on up to the Winchester Model 70 and not think anything about it.

But any of them premium firearms makers all chamber a .375 H&H in their lineup.

This is what got the snowball going, turned into an avalanche that became this episode by God's grace.

There is a thing in the gun world known as a pre-'64, as in 1964, Winchester Model 70 and Model 94, some of the greatest American firearms, period, end of sentence.

The greatest.

And they are worth far more if you get them made pre-1964.

This is what got the snowball going, turned into an avalanche that became this episode, by God's grace.

There is a thing in the gun world known as a pre-'64, as in 1964, Winchester Model 70 and Model 94, some of the greatest American firearms, period, end of sentence, the greatest.

And they are worth far more if you get them made pre-1964.

I thought, that's interesting.

So I'm a big hunter.

That's a Winchester Model 70.

So Winchester Model 70 is, it's like considered the holy grail.

It's like the fact of standard of hunting rifles to which all other hunting rifles are measured.

So that like is the hunting rifle.

And I bought for Africa for my planes game, which is what I'll also shoot North American game with.

I bought a 1963 Winchester 70 chambered in .300 Win Mag that I actually just sent out.

Wednesday for a new stock.

So it's a one year wait, but I'm having a beautiful new stock made.

You know, the first scope I ever bought was a Leupold as well.

I saved a f- a whole summer [laughs] to buy that and put it on an old pre-'64 Winchester Model 70 that, uh, I then grew up hunting with.

I, you know, shot all kinds of stuff with that through my teenage years, and I still have that scope.

You know, I hadn't...