Does anyone know if Winchester is going to offer the new Model 70 in .375 H&H?

There aren't any M-70s chambered larger than .325WSM in the 2008 catalog. Perhaps next year...

George

Hopefully next year. Too many people are getting raped by the prices of used Model 70s right now, especially the bigger bores.

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Originally posted by Moose-Hunter:
Hopefully next year. Too many people are getting raped by the prices of used Model 70s right now, especially the bigger bores.

You can't rape the willing.

That is true.

with the CZ available for under a grand new, anybody that buys a shooter M70 for much more is screwing him/herself. Does that make it self-abuse? Probably.

Rich
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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
with the CZ available for under a grand new, anybody that buys a shooter M70 for much more is screwing him/herself. Does that make it self-abuse? Probably.

Rich
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Leave us left-handers out of that categorizaiton. CZ won't build one, so the Model 70 is all we have, other than custom. I like mine just fine. Even if CZ built one, I wouldn't buy it.

I second that one as another left hander!

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
with the CZ available for under a grand new, anybody that buys a shooter M70 for much more is screwing him/herself. Does that make it self-abuse? Probably.

I've owned a bunch of M70's and one CZ. With the M70's you can pretty much do a trigger job and go hunting. With the CZ you've got to replace the trigger and safety then restock it and bed it in order to get it to the same place. By the time I make a CZ into what's functional for me I'd be a lot of money ahead buying the M70 to start with.

Just buy a MRC barreled action and stick it in a McMillan stock. $1,600 tops. Order it in stainless and you have a great no nonesense hunting rifle for Alaska to Africa, right or left handed.

For the money required to make the CZ a decent rifle, they need to be free. The M70 will need alterations too, but not near as much.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Raped by prices on M70s in 375 indeed. I listed mine and nobody wanted it.

The prices on M70's are coming down with the new (and better built ones) coming out soon. I have seen several that were listed at $1500 a couple of months ago go for $1000 or less lately. THe big bores are still up, but should drop back to "reasonaable" when the new ones are made in 2009.

They need to improve the hell out of the Mdl 70 Safaris! They didn't earn the name "Winjammer" for nothing. Winchester knew they had problems with them...even told me so over the phone, when I asked them to fix a third jammer in a row...three different rifles, all screwed up. None fed peoperly from a full magazine, and two had the barrel channel of the stock pressing HARD against the left side of the barrel.

These new ones had better be better.

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Originally posted by jetdrvr:

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
with the CZ available for under a grand new, anybody that buys a shooter M70 for much more is screwing him/herself. Does that make it self-abuse? Probably.

Rich
DRSS
Knowledge not shared is knowledge lost...

Leave us left-handers out of that categorizaiton. CZ won't build one, so the Model 70 is all we have, other than custom. I like mine just fine. Even if CZ built one, I wouldn't buy it.

Jet, you should take a hard look at a barreled action form Montana Rifle Company. You can buy them in right of left hand, stainless or chrome moly. My buddy just got one for his wife and boy-oh-boy is it ever a shooter. The put it in an stock from Accurate Inovations.

Dave