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Brian Herne, in "White Hunters," says that David Ommanney says the M70 is the best rifle ever, hands down. Considering that DO banked his life on his rifles, what do y'all think?
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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BS..... 
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Rev, Well why shouldn't he have said that? Win. made him a pile of dough and hunter's household name. I'll still take a Mauser any day. Muddy
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Literally nobody had heard of DO before Winchester promoted him and the new series of cartridges ... .338. .300 and .458 WinMag.
It was just a matter of building up a public presence and promotion of the new POS post-64 M70.
Steve
"God Loves Each Of Us As If There Were Only One Of Us"
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Yeah, but he said that before Winchester was sponsoring him.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Ok?
I'd put me right in the WGAF camp.
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Well, you lost me. Help me out. What are you saying?
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Who
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WGAF.
I couldn't give a tinker's damn what he may or may not have said.
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When deer grow fangs I'll buy a M70....
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Thanks. I'm not up on acronyms.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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2nd best after the Mauser 98. 
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Take your responsibilities seriously, never yourself-Ken Howell
Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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I have 2 CRF Winchesters, a .375 & a 30.06. No complaints.
Better than the Remington 700's I had.
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Yeah, but he said that before Winchester was sponsoring him. And I think at the time he might have been using pre-64s....though I never found anything magic about them...
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Rev. I might be wrong about this, JB would know...but Harry Selby had to send his beloved 416 back to Rigby for something and in the meantime used a Win.M70 in 458...which he ended up liking so well he sold the 416 when it finally came back. FWIW, if he liked that vintage of M70 in 458....he was the only one
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The barrel was shot out and it had to be rebarreled.
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Brian Herne, in "White Hunters," says that David Ommanney says the M70 is the best rifle ever, hands down. Considering that DO banked his life on his rifles, what do y'all think? What I think is that David Ommanney used a lot of push-fed M70's as a paid consultant to Winchester (and personal PH to Jim Rikhoff, head of Winchester PR).
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Brian Herne, in "White Hunters," says that David Ommanney says the M70 is the best rifle ever, hands down. Considering that DO banked his life on his rifles, what do y'all think? What I think is that David Ommanney used a lot of push-fed M70's as a paid consultant to Winchester (and personal PH to Jim Rikhoff, head of Winchester PR). This. Any of you remember the 1965-66 Winchester ads where David Ommanney was pictured with the "new, better" push-feed Model 70's with free floated barrels? The free float was about 1/8". (Or, a stack of dollar bills!) I bought one then in 300 Win. mag, still have it. It is rough as a cob in the fit/finish department but it is very accurate.
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