Thanks for your efforts, Harry. What is the expected price?

George

As you may recall Win. ran some left hand Safari Classics in 375 H&H. They all sold out and none are available. I am working with a major dist. who has a commitment from Winchester to build more if I will commit to the first batch.
If you need or want a LEFT HAND Safari Classic Mod 70 in caliber 375 H&H let me know. I doubt I will see them until at least Aug. although other promises were made.
If I get a number of request I will up my order which may help Win. get on the ball a little quicker.

Will they be making a run of right and left--or just left.

I wish they'd make a run of left hand .416 Rem. Mag's.

there is a winchester custom shop 458 lott up here with all the bells and wistles for 6k canadian. and i mean everything if its a custum option this rifle has it.

If they will make a few in .300 H&H I'll take one. I have one of the LH .375s from the last batch and would very much love to have a little brother for it. Just ask them to be a wee bit more careful with the machining next time.

t

Weeelllll, I might be able to use on as a Christmas present if my son finished school early enough to warrant it. Of course if he gets a genuine job as well, so much the better!

put me down for 1. unless i find 1 before the new ones are built.
wayne

I would buy one maybe 2.

They will look like and be priced the same as the one shown on my Current Gun List button of my web site
www.hunters-hq.com
Hey, I don't understand why they don't make a left hand 416 Rem Mag but they don't. Wish they would as I could sell them too.
Seems to me Winchester would just make a 250 pc. each run of left hand big bore Safari Classics (375 and 416) about every two years + and that should keep most folks in good shape. Guess they want you to pony the money for the custom shop. If I have to pay custom shop prices then I want Dakota, Echols or Miller or somebody like that quality rather than the stuff I myself have seen from the custom shop.
My efforts are to just get a solid working rifle in left hand big bore for you guys at a price you can live with.
I am as right handed as they make them. My left arm is just a place to wear my watch! I have 20/60 uncorrectable vision in left eye so you know which shoulder I shoot from.
Still I sold every damn left hand Win. 70 in 375 H&H that I could afford to buy for inventory the one and only time they made them. Some of you kind folks on AR were some of the buyers.
That CNC machine expends no more effort to make a left than it does to make a right sooooo...what the hell over!
Keep your fingers crossed and maybe they will do it. I have agreed to pay for 1/2 my order up front in order to get Win. to make another run.
I will believe it when I have to write the first check.

If the price was doable, I'd get one for my son. Be nice if the 416 were included.

If you get a left-hand Winchester 70 run that includes a 458 Win Mag or 458 Lott, I will take a couple.

Hammer

Price will be $1150 if the folks that I am working with hold their price quoted to me.
Look...there are not going to be Lotts, nor 416 RM's nor 300H&H...it is hard enought to get them to do this which they have already done once before.
You want the other calibers then I suggest you get their mailbox flooded With request for those...I would be happen to expend 37 cents and some time and paper too help in the cause.

I saw one of the left handed 375 H&H last week at Sportsman's Warehouse in Provo, UT. Price was $915. I purchased mine at Sportsman's Warehouse in SLC, UT about 4 months ago. I have had a lot of problems with mine, however. Out of the box, the safety lever would work, the bedding was terrible, and the hole in the barrel band was too small to accept a stand Uncle Mikes detachable swivel. The rear sight has to be set as far to the left as it will go with the front sight as far to the right as it will go. But my rifle may not be typical. Accuracy with Nosler Partitions is okay...about 1-1.5" at 100 yds for 3 shots, but the rifle has a pretty long throat so most other bullets I have tried so far don't seem to shoot all that well. Anyway, if you have a Sportsman Warehouse near by you might check and see if they have any of the last production rifles left.

They are a nice rifle in principle. I got one last time they were selling them, and it is nothing but a pain in the ass. It's been back to the factory twice and although the cosmetics have been thoroughly dealt with, the rifle still does not function properly.

I hope to get this rifle functioning, but I will never buy another Winchester Model 70.

H. C.

My experience with a normal right-hand Model 70 .375 was similar. New out of the box it would not feed, sent it to the local warranty station who sent it to the factory who screwed it up so badly that the warranty station refused to forward it back to me. So the factory sent me another brand new gun that was just as bad. I sent that one directly back to them, they kept it for a couple of months and returned it to me in far worse condition than before. Absolutely pathetic how bad their work was. Finally I sent it to Mark Penrod and he quickly got it feeding properly, but the bore seems rough- firing 20 rds of Federal Trophy Bonded produces so much copper fouling that the bore looks like a copper pipe. Noslers are better. Will send it back to Mark for some kind of bore polishing.

When working properly, they a great rifle. But plan on spending about a year and another $500 to get it working right, unless you are lucky and get a good one.

t

A buddy of mine showed me the recent Gun Tests article on the Ruger ($1500), Sako ($1250), and Winchester ($865).

They liked the Ruger best. The Sako had a failure to fire, but they liked it anyway. The Sako's stock is something that could only look good sitting next to a Weatherby, IMO. They hated the Winchester and gave it a "don't buy" rating. They said don't buy it unless you want to be eaten by a bear. They didn't like the rear sight which is neither a fish nor a fowl, and they didn't like the idea of attaching it with one tiny breakable screw. They especially didn't like the feeding problem. Their photograph of a misfeed was practically a mirror image of my own photographs of the same misfeed (they tested a RH rifle). That was about it for their complaints. Well, they thought the Winchester Classic Safari Express could do with an extra screw to hold the action in the wood (say, up into the barrel's recoil lug).

I've got my rifle shipped out to be fixed. I hope it comes back feeding reliably and with the rear sight holding on tighter. To be really quite fair to Winchester, I can imagine putting $635 of gunsmith work into it and ending up with something as nice as an off-the shelf $1500 Ruger.

H. C.

It appears the one I got was not as bad as others have experienced. It fed and functioned fine, however, I could not get it sighted in after 100 or so rounds until I had some custom Talley bases machined by Mark Penrod. Mark also adjusted the trigger/safety and bedded the action then I installed a Wisner extractor and magazine spring. After 500 or so rounds the action has slicked up a bit and it shoots fine.