Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors All this talk about gunshows and stuff

That is a damn good deal. The lowest I've seen an EW 325 was $600, and it was in like new condition.

Yes, $500 would be a great deal.

They also made the coyote light in 325 WSM; but the receiver is cm.

$500 would be like stealing it, huh buddy. I remember thinking I should have bought the 325 wsm EW for $600 a couple years ago. They are good rifles, and I had plenty of 8mm bullets at the time. Shoulda woulda..

I would not have been able to walk by it for 500..

I couldn't pass the CDNN 325's when they were around 600 bucks. Darned rifle is a hammer and I have 0 use for it.

I have not taken it apart yet but did pick up a walnut stock here a month or so ago priced well. I am sure a bed job will be required either way. Currently fiddling with a 6.5 Creedmoor M700 ADL and an early 270 Win M700 Ti...

I’ve been on more of a scope bender lately having bought three or four in the last couple of months.

I found a good deal on the ‘bay for a VX-II 6-18x40 with duplex reticle, so upgraded to that on my .220 Swift.

Bought a NIB VX-3HD 4.5-14x40 CDS with 30mm tube and windplex reticle for my Remington 700 .25-06!

Took an old Bausch and Lomb Balvar 2.5-8x with Savage 99 mounts in a trade. That one’s going to end up on the classifieds once I get it cleaned up for pictures.

Took an M7b-4x off of my old 7x57 Mauser to replace it with a newer M8-6x but put the M7b back on as it was a better fit. 🤷‍♂️

I better get back to buying guns soon!

I seem to buy guns with scopes on top for some reason. Then I sell the scopes, if they serve no use for my needs. Closer to the beginning of the year, I ran across 2 older Vari-XIIc 3-9X40 rifle scopes for cheap. One was a gloss black and the other a silver Leupold. I still have both of them. One is on a rifle I bought a few months ago:



The older gloss Leupolds just look good on the pre 64's. I plan on keeping this one on the 270 std wt pictured, until it goes belly up. It should be good for a good while though. However, because it doesn't have a useable reticle and I don't trust it to dial, it's very limited. Boy, that's going to pizz some people off!!! Yeah, it's no good for my usual 400 yard range. But it is what it is.


The rifle shoots great at 100 yards, so it's kind of a shame..

I apologize, I call any of the newer ones with the full length extractors “classics”. It is full stainless.

Sounds like an extreme weather. That’s a great price.

While we are on the topic of great BACO deals:
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...mited-addition-2008.cfm?gun_id=102495592

Very seldom when a treasure doesn’t come home from a show

That guy sounds cool man. I hope he sells it to just the right person.

When I bought my BACO 2008 limited edition fwt, it was $600.00. Damn nice rifles for sure. The one in the add is almost as nice as the one I had:

Those first year rifles were pretty sweet. That was when BACO/FN Herstal was really wanting to impress us with the new model 70. This was a gem I found at a local small town gunshow about 8 years ago.

“That guy sounds cool man. I hope he sells it to just the right person.”

I do too bsa. Posted it here in hopes someone might know the right young hunter.

I just forwarded it to a buddy looking for a 338-06 donor.. That's a good deal

I think the intent of the seller was to sell it to a new young hunter. Not to tear it apart because its cheap and a good deal.

Ah okay. I didn't know the seller, so I didn't read into it. I usually don't read the epilogues of ads unless its something I am planning to buy for myself

It's a Browning. Not like a guy is tearing apart a Pre-64.

Heck, they're just running a reamer through the bore and putting some new rifling in it. You'll barely notice

I hit up the gun show circuit pretty regularly in my neck of the woods. I'm pretty envious of the finds that people post on here. I can count on 1 hand how many shows were worth going to. I think I've only bought one gun over the past year at a show. (I've bought A LOT online)... It's the same people with the same crap at all of the local shows in Wisconsin. The shows are tiny, you can walk through them in 10 minutes, despite the $8 entry fee. 50% of the tables are AR-15's. It's amazing to me how most of the guys don't know anything about what is actually on their table. I had to educate a guy at the last show on what he had, as he was advertising it as an "original pre 64 Model 70". It had an aftermarket stock and was chambered for a Weatherby...

I'll keep showing up hoping to find a diamond in the rough.

Good luck. Something should pop up. I was told about a fairly original pre 64 270 fwt locally for $750.00. But having just bought 2 270's a while back on the same day, I'm all 270'd out right now. Had to pass on that one.