My advice is to buy one that you can hunt with and be done with it. There is little future in collecting pre-64 70 Winchesters. Reasons are: possible regulations, fewer people interested in them and fewer people with disposable incomes that will be able to pay outrageous prices for them.
Ok, on the upside it could be worse. You could be contemplating collecting old model 12 field guns. Heavy 2&3/4" (most) without rib and no choke tubes. How is that for hopeless?
