I am seeking a nice shooter Pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in the old 7x57mm Mauser. This is a rare one and often forged too!!

I am not looking for a collectors piece, but a nice hunter and shooter. I don't care if it is a parts gun, as long as it is identified as such.

Will pay cash, and I have some nice trades as well.

CherrZ,

This will indeed be a tough one to find.
Keep us posted on what you find out there.

Those are rare; I think only the 35 Rem and 300 Savage are rarer. I never see "shooter" grades any more; all are in collections and will never be fired again. Finding one in the wild will take forever.
I'd just build one if you actually want to shoot it. With the 70 barrel profile of course.

The rarest of pre64s is the 9mm, as I recall it was the 9x57? but not sure..Id love to have a 7x57 pre 64, but a rare one for sure..

I believe the 7.65 Argentine was also available.

I have also seen one in 405 Winchester, and another in 416 Rigby out of the Custom Shop!!
I recall there were 9 very unique calibers cataloged in the Model 70, some mentioned above...
I saw the 416 Rigby at the Winchester Collectors Show in Cody, WY maybe 5 years ago. It has a factory Lyman peep sight on it vs a standard leaf on the quarter rib... and the wood is relieved for it to fit on the left side. NYET!!... If it had been conventional sights, I WUDDA bought it!!
I now have a SPECTACULAR John Bolliger Sr. Custom on a Pre-64 Mod 70 Magnum action!!...

CheerZ,

If anyone can find it Justin at pre64.com will sort you one.

Thank you for this website, I was not familiar with it!! www.pre64WIN.com

They do, in fact, have 3 7x57s... very rare and a target model at $14,xxx!!... starting at $9k...a bit out of my scope!!

I would consider a nice, cased Rigby or other English "275 Rigby" at those prices!!
I will contact Justin to keep on the lookout for a plain Jane shooter!!

That is what was alluding to; any 7mm will be too valuable to shoot because some M70 collector will have to have it in his collection. And will pay to restore it as he sees fit; quickly bringing it out of the hunter realm. I've seen it happen.
If you want a 275 Rigby, there is the metal for one in the classifieds.
Only if you find someone who doesn't know what he has. I bought am unfired 358 Win Model 70 like that once. But just once.

I have a new production “pre-64” 7x57… there’s also a nice custom Mauser marked 7x57/275 Rigby at Oregon trail traders in la grande Oregon.

YEAH... I had a nice post-64 Win Mod 70 Featherweight too... I regret selling that one!!
I will chat with the shop in LaGrande. We have our Double Rifle shoot in LaGrande each year!! I might have been in that shop??
I sent an email to Justin at pre64Win.com
George Caswell at Champlin has 2 customs, and Steve Barnett has a Jerry Fisher custom... cheaper that original Winchesters!!

CheerZ,

Have you considered buying a std wt. or fwt. pre 64, well used o6 or 270 and sticking a Douglas barrel on it, its what you describe. Might have to glass bed the barrel channel..

My 7x57 is a RJ Renner rebuilt Ruger 77 beauty I paid used $600. for..love it...and a 7x57 Brno double square small ring Mauser mod 21 or 22 for under $1500..

They make the Pre 64 contour with the night crawler swell on it.

It is the old Winchester logo and 7 M/M I am coveting!!

If I were to go with another, it would be one of the great customs out there by our now revered gunmakers like Jerry Fisher...

Which can be engraved on.