He'd shop around for a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 WIN.....
Bingo!
Does anyone really think gunmakers have eclipsed his absolute favorite? Some of them are now having trouble just building rifles that customers won't want to return! Or pass along to some schmuck.
Yeah, and Winchester had a pretty busy service dept before 1964 (for good reason).
Also, if factory pre 64 M 70s were so great, why did guys like O'Connor feel the need to spend twice the cot of the rifle customizing them? A hint would be the stocks shaped like plain Canoe paddles.
KoolAid drinkers are funny.
To all gunmaker critics- "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.."- Teddy Roosevelt
