Thought you might enjoy some snaps.
They all see active service in the field and as result all have scratches and dings and proud of em'.

Pre64 .300&.375H&H

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Pre64 tubed in 7x57 G&H McMillan.
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Pre64 243win.. If you like girls who fit in size 6, then this is the stock for you. Really deserves to be 257r 6.5x55 or 7x57.
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Pre64 250 savage.

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Argentine1909 270win.

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Pre64 6mmRem

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Home Sweet Home.

Very nice WJ. Who did the stocks & the checkering?

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Thats a hell of a set of rifles. I'd be Proud.

Rifles to brag about, and be quite right in so doing! Thanks for sharing those photos.

NICE!

Love the .300H&H .375H&H matched pair!

Who did the work on them?

Regards,
Dave

beautiful.. I like the lines on the stock on the .243

WOW - What a pair!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing those photos.

Very nice .300 & .375 H&H

Thank you for sharing,
Roland

Very nice every one of them, just fantastic.
Thanks for sharing those pictures and good photos by the way.

Winchester Mod 70 and beautiful wood. Life gets no better! You are a lucky man.

Wow! What a collection! The matched pair is amazing and the .250 is also incredible. I've got some serious rifle envy right now............

Nice sweet bunch of pre 64's the wood is F@@@@@ nice.

I see you have a pre war one in the bunch

@#$%!

now i am depressed...

gorgeous...

You have far to many Pre-64's,I WANT ONE .

WoW! Very nice!

I saw the thread title and was prepared to see "Safe Hags"... man was I wrong!

Your guns are georgeous. I especially love that checkering. I'll bet with the help of my natural awkwardness, a little salty sea breeze and my metal treestands I could chip, scratch and rust them into wrecks in two seasons. I guess I'd better stick to admiring the beauty of guns like yours but hunting with stainless steel and tupperware.

very Very nice, thanks for posting,regards jjmp

Hey WJ..

Thanks for sharing.....

Absolutly goodie goodie goodie...

Good guns in good calibers...very hard to beat that combo...

I wonder though if the .375 H&H had been a
.375rooker would have lessend the appeal..

All extremely nice. Gunsmith(s)?

The pre-War 300 H&H is my pick of the litter.

Most excellent rifles!...thanks for posting them.

Absolutely gorgeous bunch of rifles . I can see you have extremely good taste !Thanks for posting the pics .

Oh yes ! That´s guns

Can I ask what kind of scope mounts are on the 270 Win and the 6mm Rem ?
Some of the nicest I have ever seen...

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Terry

I think that one in 250-3000 (otherwise known as 250 Savage) is especially valuable if it is the original factory barrel as that is one of the rarer factory chamberings in Model 70s.

What a great bunch of rifles, the kind I like drooling over, especially those with stellar wood.
Thanks for the pix. They made my day!!!!

Don

i keep seeing a supergrade pre-64 m70 in 22 hornet floating around the gunshows in the corpus christi tx area... fabulous gun....

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Originally posted by jimatcat:
i keep seeing a supergrade pre-64 m70 in 22 hornet floating around the gunshows in the corpus christi tx area... fabulous gun....

I think that caliber has become a quite valuable one now too, if it's the original barrel and unaltered.

I keep thinking about a 250-3000 some day, and seeing that one just rubs it in, NICE rifles.

Great in all ways, beautiful wood. Thanks for posting.

D.Humbarger, DavidC & fla3006,

The fellow who stocked&metaled these rigs does not desire any advertising.
He dont advertise in mags,has no website,no email,does not belong to any guild and does not do gunshows. Even at that rate he booked well in advance.
As general interest though, some of the work you see is from 1989(eg;pre64.243fw). That rifle has his base grade stockwork,which he no longer offers. Now he only does Bestgrade.
But to give you an idea of the market,a rifle I book with him now(2yrs before he could start it) he estimated around US$4k for stockwork labor. Extensive fluer-ribbon or superfine 32lpi checkering would bump that up 20% or so.
As an overall eg: the 1909-270win; if a person took delivery of it today,they would have to sign a check for around US10k+.

Arild Iversen,
what you see are Conetrol rings in custom made bases. The rings from conetrol come with notable manufacturing error,something unacceptable for a topnotch rifle.
So the rings have been jigged,the studs and shoulder re-machined properly round,concentric, perpendicular, square & true. You can see that they are shorter on the scope tube that a std. factory conetrol ring, that because they have to be faced off.
Just about Every dimension & surface on the rings has been corrected.
The overall metal on that m98 is sharp&crisp, the Blackburn metal also gets corrected.

Love that 1909 .270, they are all wonderful though !!

Very nice. Well crafted rifles. I see curly wood is popular.

I,ll take any,
or all of the above. But If I had choose just one i,d go the .375 or the .250 savage...tj3006

Thank you for showing us some great rifles.
Me, I like the 243s stock best of all, though I would not say no to any of them were they on offer.

Those are very nice rifles.I like the shape of the stocks and the wood.Can you comment on the stock design?

I was expecting Peter Hofer, Hartmann & Weiss,... What's the catch?

Man that's an impressive collection. "The Rifleman's Rifle", for sure.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
....Can you comment on the stock design?

What I have found from these projects is that, although the cheekpiece is something that looks rather nice&traditional, it is something I would most likely not opt for in the future. The .300&.375H&H I believe still look fine without a c.p. and remain comfortable& supportive to shoot.
The slim .243FW is my favored stock in regards to elegance and style. It really should be a 257r,6.5x55,or 7x57 to do it justice. I suppose that can be easily rectified.

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Originally posted by Paolo9,5x73:
I was expecting Peter Hofer, Hartmann & Weiss,... What's the catch?

No catch.
Im not convinced HartmannWeiss or any other premium big name will better the quality of metal&wood work on that 1909-270win.
But if you would prefer to commission a rifle from H&W-12k extra or H&H-25k extra, for a name, thats your perogative. Me personally I dont see the name as being that important.
When I spoke with Hartmann&Weiss (and other premium makers) all I got at the start were salesmen and their BS trying to convince me to buy. Even at that early stage I brushed them off and insisted in talking to Mr.Hartmann or Weiss themselves with any quiry I had.
My advantage is that I get to talk to the actual-individual dedicated builder of the rifle from start to finish and anything&everything in between.
If you can find better quality than the 1909-270win,(not style to too much extent,cause thats an individual thing) you should post some good close pictures for all the AR folk to see.
I will also go as far to say, that if I took that m98-1909 Rifle to the next RenoACGG show, it would be sure to generate some interest and most likely have a good chance to attract an potential intelligent awares buyer, despite the maker being a relative "unkown". For some people though,the impression that rifle gave, would depend on "whos" table they saw it on. Even if one were a little unsure, they could put it in the hands of some of the more respected ACGG members to get their impartial evaluation. I really should do it just for a laugh.
I would be very bewildered to say the least,If they did not give it the full thumbs up.
By the way, that 1909 rifle is near 9yr old now,and that mans work if anything, has only improved.

Great looking rifles all.

Were they stocked in the US?

- stu