Winchester Pre 64 300 H&H Import

[264]

Its here!
Thanks to Deewayne2003, for his assistance in getting it ready for shipping to Australia. 6months to get here with black range handling the paperwork Reasonable Fees.
Impressed so quick clean and once over. Sight in with woodleigh 180 PPSN's (65D) Shoots, looks , feels great so a field trip organised
Deewaynes pics. 1950's pre 64 Supergrade 300 H&H, Leupold 2x7 original swivels. Sent to leupold before sending by Dwayne for service.

Fiel test
Hit the dry creeks and a few carcasses from ten days ago. Starting to dry up and getting hot so got a few pigs Nothing spectacular but a good day and try out for the 300 H&H Not disappointed performed great heres. a few pics cheers Mick
First one running 120m 180 PPSN

breaking from bed in creek

wet feet recovering the next one, one each both young boars

couple from a mob

Skop was next with new Sauer 338WM young boar wallowing, kicked into the river .

recovery

185 TTSX

Resting heat of the day, comparison old and new

couple more

Very very happy and big thanks to Deewayne, hope to repay him with a hunt when the flu is over Cheers Mick

 

[PaulT]

Another fine addition to you already superb collection of hunting firearms.

Nice, great report.

 

[spike.t]

Nice how does it shoot with the iron sights?

 

[264]

Nice how does it shoot with the iron sights?

Haven't tried the open sights.......

 

[Chukar]

That is a beautiful looking piece in a wonderful caliber! Congratulations to you Sir.

 

[spike.t]

Haven't tried the open sights.......

OK....looks like it would be good fun using it with them on those pigs..

 

[Shootist43]

Thanks for sharing. One thing for sure, Winchesters whether old or new generally shoot well. One of these days I like to run into an old 300 H&H mag like this one.

 

[xausa]

This is my pre-64 .300 H&H. I used it successfully on Grant's, Thompson's and Peters' gazelles, klipspringer, dik-dik, impala, common and deFassa waterbuck, gerenuk, fringe eared and Beisa oryx, sable, hartebeest and brindled wildebeest. This is me comparing the width of the horn spread of my impala with the 26" barrel on the H&H.

 

[deewayne2003]

I’m just glad it survived the journey; seriously I’ve had 3 rifles suffer broken stocks during shipping and insurance was a nightmare.

I remember finally shipping it off the the broker on February 8th after coming to the correct conclusion that Australia would be closed.

Glad to see you putting it to good use!

 

[sestoppelman]

Very nice rifle!! Back in the day when the Super Grades had sights, unlike now.