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Ran across this rare bird. Seems well priced too. Anyone shoot these nice old winchesters (from the wrong side!)? http://www.champlinarms.com/De...StyleID=2&GunID=3038 | ||
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That might be the holy grail for me for Winchesters. I love the walnut/stainless combo. I don't remember them making a non-express rifle in 375 H&H, though. For that money, you could throw some cross bolts in the stock, add some sights and hunt the world. Tempting me on a Friday, man... _____________________________________________________ No safe queens! | |||
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That’s kind of an odd rifle. It’s been converted from a standard length magnum. The rear scope base holes are not .330. No sights? | |||
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I'm glad that I didn't see this until after it was gone as I would have been tempted to buy it. Afterwards I would have had buyer's remorse since it's a 375 H&H but not a Safari Express. In any other long action chambering, I would have bought it. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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I never knew that Winchester ever made left handed rifles other than their push feed models back in the 80s?. I would love to have a left handed Winchester model 70. I have really wanted a Winchester for a long time but just don't buy myself bolt rifles in right handed models. | |||
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Don't think Winchester ever made a pushfeed in lefthand, only the classic starting in the 90's. | |||
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I never met a left hand M70 Classic that I didn’t like and rarely pass up the opportunity to pick up another one. I am having one converted to 375 H&H right now and two more in 7 Mag sitting in the safe waiting for other projects...I can hear one of them screaming to be made into a 458 Lott. | |||
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Nice! I rebored a 375 h&h stainless classic to a 458 Lott. But it was a right handed monster. | |||
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Action & Feeding Set-Up by David Sullivan at West Wind Rifles Yep, the donor I would be most likely to sacrifice to that re-make would be a 7mmRemMag. Mr. Sullivan the gunsmith shortened the ejector and took the sheet metal block out of the rear of the box. Voila! I have done that myself to a 270WCF RH M70 rifle rebarreled to 400 Whelen. Drilled the 4 spot welds out of the back of the box to remove the magazine blocker. Then I cut and tried, cut and tried ... filing that bolt-stop-ejector back until it worked just right. Then I replaced the factory sheet metal box with a Wiebe XRM box, trapezoidal, supposed to add an extra round in H&H head size. Added one round in '06 head size too. Thus a 3.4" action becomes a 3.6" action with the wrong hole spacing on the rear bridge, and a longer rear bridge, shorter ejection port. But it ejects .375 H&H length cartridges OK: ![]() Here is a spare RH Winchester M70 Classic in .416RemMag that shows the 0.330" hole spacing and a little longer ejection port: ![]() This will be re-barreled to the .458 WIN LongCOL, the outstanding wildcat that beats a .458 Lott at same or lower pressures with heavy bullets. ![]() Rip ... | |||
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Here's one in action. ![]() 2004 vintage Classic Safari Express in 375 H&H. This was the last year that New Haven made the left handed models of the Classic Safari Express. ![]() Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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I bought my older son a LH Model 70 Classic (CRF) in 416 Rem. Very nice shape owner didn't like the recoil, still had the first box of shells he bought. ![]() My son (and myself also) found it muzzle heavy so we had our gunsmith take 2" off the barrel (it's 22" now), added a mercury recoil reducer, put Talley QR rings on it and CeraKoted everything but the jeweled bolt. He likes it a lot now. Unfortunately I don't have a picture. Will have bring it out and take one ![]() Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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