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Posts: 11017 | Registered: 14 December 2000Reply With Quote
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A guy would shell out more than that $2,800 for just the M-70 in .375 H&H and it's pal in .300 H&H.


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I will take one of each...........

wish it were true today


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This is why I never sell any of my guns. I wish I had one of each.
 
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I bought my first new Model 70 in 1962-3 for $129.00. I remember a friend who purchased one at some military PX around that time for $99.00.
 
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In comparison, using the CPI inflation calculator, $2,819.90 in 1963 dollars would have the buying power today of $18,274.06.

It would seem that appreciation in value of pre-64 Winchester rifles (assuming mint condition) has outpaced inflation.


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Thanks mrlexma! I had been wondering about that. thumb
 
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Wow, that is some pretty dubious advertising since $2819 constituted 59% of the average annual 1960's salary!

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Posts: 4697 | Location: North Africa and North America | Registered: 05 July 2001Reply With Quote
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Summer of 64 I had a construction job here at $1.25 per hr. Highest pay in town. If you worked
in a store $.75 per and bucking hay was $.05 per
bale if you had the truck and trailor. That was
stacked in the Barn. $10. a LONG day for labor.
Took me a while to pay for my $82. Marlin and
K4. Still have them.


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Posts: 1684 | Location: Walker Co,Texas | Registered: 27 August 2004Reply With Quote
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Summer of 64 I had a construction job here at $1.25 per hr. Highest pay in town. If you worked
in a store $.75 per and bucking hay was $.05 per
bale if you had the truck and trailor. That was
stacked in the Barn. $10. a LONG day for labor.


Ditto that!! Only we were paid $.10 per bale..(making the big bucks!!)

I did receive the .243 Featherweight for Christmas from my Dad in 1960. I was an excited teenager and shot my first deer with it open sights. Later we installed a Lyman 6X scope....good stuff..My father had the 30-30 bought in 1959. Those were our "deer rifles".. thumb
Other guns were a single shot JC Higgins .410, Remington 48 .410, and a Rem pump .22.


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invader,

You are exaggerating! When I was bucking hay in about '68 or '69 I was getting .05/bale for picking it up, putting it on the wagon, and putting it up in the barn. But I got a free supper.

Those were the good ol' days. Smiler


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You guys were way overpaid. I got 50 bucks for a whole summer of hay raking, bale stacking, pig and calf feeding, gutter cleaning, etc.
 
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Will, in 68 I made Corp E-4 and that was $224.
+ 65. Combat pay. Thought I was rich. Big Grin


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In 1964 when they quit making them, my Dad bought a few new Mod. 70 for $60 each on clearance. Could have bought thousands of them!Wish I had them now, eh? Smiler


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For the most part it sounds like you were all overpaid.
 
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What if you don't want a purple camo one? Big Grin


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Posts: 10138 | Location: Wine Country, Barossa Valley, Australia | Registered: 06 March 2002Reply With Quote
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By my figures at .05 a bale, 1000 bales a day, that's $50 a day split between two kids. Five days work for a Model 70 in .375 H&H assuming someone would discount one $30, doesn't sound that bad to me and I've done a lot of it, we typically put up 25000 bales a year on our place, back when we baled small round or square bales.


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Noticed that on the Model 100's the bolt is sitting on top of the magazine - not in the usual position.

Never seen that before on rifles in SA!

Why would that be? and
Isn't it difficult to handle in that position?


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Posts: 654 | Location: RSA, Mpumalanga, Witbank. | Registered: 21 April 2005Reply With Quote
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Summer of 64 I had a construction job here at $1.25 per hr. Highest pay in town. If you worked
in a store $.75 per and bucking hay was $.05 per
bale if you had the truck and trailor. That was
stacked in the Barn. $10. a LONG day for labor.
Took me a while to pay for my $82. Marlin and
K4. Still have them.


I made $.10 per bale each summer vacation from '84-'87. On a short haul to a good barn I could make up to $100 per day, on a long haul to a bad barn I would make about $40. That is the hardest money I have ever earned. I bought a Remington 1100 12 gauge and a Remington .243 pump action (model 760??), but both were stolen when I was away in the Army.


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