Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Interesting find this morning. Win 70 XTR in 6.5x55

Happened to come across a Winchester Model 70 XTR in 6.5 Sweedemoor today! Been looking for one of these for quite some time. Price was impossible to say no to.

https://intersurplus.com/products/winchester-70-xtr-in-6-5x55?_pos=1&_sid=72ae19959&_ss=r


Happen to have a 1" Pachmayr "Old English" here for it. Brown. Red or Black would be cooler but its already here. And the folding rear sight on pedestal for XTRs.

Will post some pictures when it shows up! Thinking a Trijicon Accupoint in QD rings would be a good partner for this setup.

Have the european model with open sights.

Been jealous of you and that rifle for a long time, Sqweeler :P

This is the same one, I think. That shop just got a big importation from Sweden.

This picture proves red is the only way to go on a Winchester.

Nice buy,

Nice! I've caught myself adding stuff to a cart multiple times there and then remembering they can't ship to the US!

That second one down is checkered like my Mod 70 Featherweight. Oh yea, My featherweight is also a 6.5x55! Love it! Only bolt action Winchester I ever hunted with.

Second one down is XTR Featherweight 25-06....Third 250 Savage Lightweight

Damn good score!

Doh!

Nice find Igloo.

Steal!!

Nice! Brown is my favorite pad, will look nice. More distinguished than black, not as gaudy as red.

Thanks all! Sorry for the link that doesn't work stateside

TomM1, kinda think the brown is a bit more pleasant to my eyes too, even if not particularly original.

Hope its twisted fast enough for the 140gr ECX. Its a long bullet.

You done good, nice rifles!

Damn you stole that. Good on ya!

IIRC, Winchester/USRA made that run of 70 XTR Featherweights and 70 XTR Sporters with open sights for the European market in 1986. A little later, sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s, the made some non-cataloged 70 Rangers with the same style of open sights as the 70 XTR Sporters. The 70 XTR Featherweights had their rear sight mounted in a barrel dovetail due to the lower comb height of their stocks.

I took a 70 XTR Featherweight to Botswana in 1988 and shot most of my game with 156 grain Norma factory loads.

Nice rifle at a very nice price ! In my opinion that Swedish CG/63 match rifle with GF rear diopter is also a great buy...

Nice pickup. Look forward to seeing it all cleaned up. The bolt handle still has blue and the bolt jeweling gives evidence of little use. The wood is also way above average.

Its here! Time to get a pad installed and get it properly bedded. Will take some better pictures once I get it outside and into some better lighting.

Does seem to be pretty low mileage...very happy with it

Excellent snag! The XTR Fwt I had was my go-to rifle for about 15 years from, 1986 when I bought it. It was one of the Euro-market (Sweden as I recall) overruns that Winchester (USRA) elected to dump on the American market (again as I recall). When I heard of that from a friend who had connections at USRA I asked my LGS owner/buddy to see if he could snare me one - as we both laughed. A month later he told me to stop by and bring my checkbook because he had a surprise for me. That bugger shot every damned bullet well that I stuffed into it, and I never felt the need to mess with the bedding.

That is one of only a handful of guns I ever sold that I wish to hell I had back. It went away with a bunch of other ones to build up the down payment on some property I bought.