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The new Winchester 70 Safari Express

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31 December 2010, 08:53
Warrior
The new Winchester 70 Safari Express
Offered in .375 H&H, .416 Rem. Mag., and .458 Win. Mag

Features include:

Pre-‘64-style claw extractor
Flush-mounted, hinged steel magazine floorplate for fast and easy loading/unloading
Double recoil lugs
Deluxe cheekpiece
Pachmayr Decelerator recoil pad
Hooded-blade front sight/express-style rear
M.O.A. trigger
Matte blued finish

The Winchester Model 70 Safari Express rifle retails for a suggested price of $1,279.

Anyone that has experienced it yet or has taken it on Safari yet?
Seems well priced against the Kimber Caprivi ($3196), Ruger RSM ($1850) and CZ550 Safari Magnum ($1179).
The Montana Safari Supreme goes for $4399.

Warrior
31 December 2010, 09:12
Macifej
Think the suggested price on the big Ruger is $2400 or so.
31 December 2010, 09:34
McCray
I have a 416. Haven't taken it anywhere yet but my observations are...

Better machined than the New Haven guns.

Will feed flat nosed Barnes solids smoothly.

Accurate...three 400 grain Swifts into about an inch and a quarter.

Trigger on mine had a bunch of creep, but it adjusted out. Came from the factory at about 3 and a half pounds.

Comes with a spring steel extractor...probably Williams, but like all of the new Model 70s I've seen, it is stainless. Got swapped.

Blue looks kinda thin...gives the impression it will wear easily.

Stock is the same clunky chunk that the last New Haven guns had. I bedded mine into a older Winchester Custom Shop stock I had. They come "bedded" with 3 little dabs of hot glue that I wouldn't trust at all.

I think I paid about $1100 plus tax.

Just some observations...I like mine.


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31 December 2010, 10:21
Fjold
How much for a left handed one?

Roll Eyes


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31 December 2010, 12:43
Stephen Palos
There's a whole thread on this that was active until about a week back. See

Existing thread on Win Safari Exp.

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