I impulse bought this rifle last week. It's a pre-64 Model 70 in 270 WCF with an early 1950 serial number and a 49 stamped barrel. Bolt matches, sights are original. It's missing the front sight hood. The stock has an older (but still soft enough) Pachmayr pad. LOP measures 13 3/8" so they must have trimmed a bit of walnut to get that LOP with the new pad. Stock has been bedded as well. The bore and crown look great, but there is lots of bluing wear on the front half of the barrel, plus some scuffs in the bluing on the receiver and floorplate. The bolt side of the receiver looks worse than the other side. No pitting and the metal underneath the stock looks brand new.
Definitely just a shooter grade rifle. I bought it as a package with Leupold rings+bases and a Leupold 3-9x40 Vari-X iic (Made in 2000 according to serial #). I paid $1300 CAD ($940 USD) for the package. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I don't usually impulse buy rifles and values are all over the place on pre-64 Mod 70s. Was that a fair deal?
I took it out to the range today just to see how it would do with a box of cheap Federal blue box 130 grain. I shot one group at 100 (1.6" 5-shot group) and 2.8" 5-shot group at 200 yards. Not bad for a random box of ammo. I don't yet have dies and brass for .270.
Definitely just a shooter grade rifle. I bought it as a package with Leupold rings+bases and a Leupold 3-9x40 Vari-X iic (Made in 2000 according to serial #). I paid $1300 CAD ($940 USD) for the package. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I don't usually impulse buy rifles and values are all over the place on pre-64 Mod 70s. Was that a fair deal?
I took it out to the range today just to see how it would do with a box of cheap Federal blue box 130 grain. I shot one group at 100 (1.6" 5-shot group) and 2.8" 5-shot group at 200 yards. Not bad for a random box of ammo. I don't yet have dies and brass for .270.
