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1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag #4082063 05/13/10
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,385 Minnesota USA L LRF OP Campfire Regular
OP LRF Campfire Regular L Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,385 Minnesota USA	Thought some may find this of interest. I recently bought this M70 for a very good price. In its 73 years of life someone had drilled and tapped the action for a side mount. It had the Lyman 48 on it when I bought it. So I made the quick detachable scope mount. The mount is designed so you can use both the scope or peep sight. Save the Earth...its the only planet with chocolate!

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Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082112 05/13/10
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 9,709 Weatherford, TX sactoller Campfire Outfitter
sactoller Campfire Outfitter Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 9,709 Weatherford, TX	Classic! Official member of "The Clan of Turd-like People"

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag sactoller #4082124 05/13/10
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 21,958 H HawkI Campfire Ranger
HawkI Campfire Ranger H Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 21,958	Very jealous! Classic gun in a classic cartridge. Enjoy it.

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag HawkI #4082234 05/13/10
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 6,384 N.E. Mn./ Mt H handwerk Campfire Tracker
handwerk Campfire Tracker H Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 6,384 N.E. Mn./ Mt	Fantastic, I have a 1937 M 70 7mm, sure is fun to use something from long ago. Congrats, enjoy that 300 H&H

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082259 05/13/10
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,551 Whitebird Campfire Regular
Whitebird Campfire Regular Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,551	Very nice...

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Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082285 05/13/10
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,619 Likes: 4 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas K kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana
kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana K Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,619 Likes: 4 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas	Stunning work and an awesome rifle! BN Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester "Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored." WS

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag kaywoodie #4082322 05/13/10
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,620 Likes: 1 Orange Park, Florida jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana
jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,620 Likes: 1 Orange Park, Florida	Outstanding weapon! I used a similar rifle (1941) to take this Oryx in Texas last October. jorge 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…”

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082425 05/13/10
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 23,036 Likes: 6 SW Montana V VarmintGuy Campfire Ranger
VarmintGuy Campfire Ranger V Joined: May 2003 Posts: 23,036 Likes: 6 SW Montana	LRF: I certainly do find your Rifle interesting and handsome. Good for you. I have a Winchester Model 70 Bull Gun made in February of 1937 myself. It is one of my pride and joys! This Bull Gun is in 99% condition and all original - the caliber designation on the side of the extra heavy 28" barrel reads simply: 300 Magnum. I assume you have fired your Rifle by now and I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on its accuracy and the like. I have ALWAYS wanted to fire my 300 H&H Bull Gun but have resisted that urge for going on 40 years now. Again good for you on owning that fine old Rifle and for constructing that unique and useful mounting system. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag VarmintGuy #4082462 05/13/10
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OP LRF Campfire Regular L Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,385 Minnesota USA	The rifle is basically a super grade with all the attributes of a super grade, wood, cheek piece, detachable swivels, forearm tip and better checkering, except the floor plate is not marked. My rifle was carried on many a hunting trip and fondled much. It has patina. Oh the stories it could possible tell. It is perfect. Frankly, I feel sorry for a gun having never been fired in 40 years, it must think your are mad at it. An unfired gun is a gun we don't know whether it works or not. Save the Earth...its the only planet with chocolate!

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082606 05/13/10
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 27,500 Going BACK to Africa this year... safariman Campfire Ranger
safariman Campfire Ranger Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 27,500 Going BACK to Africa this year...	WOW, that is one fine piece there. EXCELLENT grab. Wish I could find one as well. Terrific gunsmithing and machining as well there. LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports. About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500

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Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag safariman #4082657 05/13/10
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,584 East Kootenays, BC RickF Campfire Tracker
RickF Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,584 East Kootenays, BC	Lovely old rifle. Thanks for sharing! Anybody who seriously concerns themselves with the adequacy of a Big 7mm for anything we hunt here short of brown bear, is a dufus. They are mostly making shidt up. Crunch! Nite-nite! Stolen from an erudite CF member.

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag RickF #4082779 05/14/10
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 27,692 Western NC hillbillybear Campfire Ranger
hillbillybear Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 27,692 Western NC	Grand Old Rifle. Member: Clan of the Turdlike People. Courage is Fear that has said its Prayers �If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.� Ronald Reagan.

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082783 05/14/10
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 35,900 B BobinNH Campfire 'Bwana
BobinNH Campfire 'Bwana B Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 35,900	Fabulous! The 280 Remington is overbore. The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag LRF #4082871 05/14/10
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 13,436 Grayling, MI D DMB Campfire Outfitter
DMB Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 13,436 Grayling, MI	Very good looking M-70/300H&H. That checkering is very strong, and it looks like there's good figure in the stock. You did well with the QD scope mount too..!!! The rifle looks to be in very fine condition by looking at the bluing in the pix. Go forth and slew some Elks... Don Buckbee JPFO NRA Benefactor Member NSSA Life Member

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag DMB #4085010 05/14/10
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 10,915 Lubbock, Texas H Huntr Campfire Outfitter
Huntr Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 10,915 Lubbock, Texas	That is a cool old classic! Congrats

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag Huntr #4085731 05/15/10
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,385 Minnesota USA L LRF OP Campfire Regular
OP LRF Campfire Regular L Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,385 Minnesota USA	Thanks all! Save the Earth...its the only planet with chocolate!

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag VarmintGuy #4087252 05/15/10
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,462 Likes: 2 OreGONE G GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger
GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,462 Likes: 2 OreGONE	Originally Posted by VarmintGuy LRF: I certainly do find your Rifle interesting and handsome. Good for you. I have a Winchester Model 70 Bull Gun made in February of 1937 myself. It is one of my pride and joys! This Bull Gun is in 99% condition and all original - the caliber designation on the side of the extra heavy 28" barrel reads simply: 300 Magnum. I assume you have fired your Rifle by now and I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on its accuracy and the like. I have ALWAYS wanted to fire my 300 H&H Bull Gun but have resisted that urge for going on 40 years now. Again good for you on owning that fine old Rifle and for constructing that unique and useful mounting system. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy Wouldn't own a gun I didn't shoot. LRF, great rifle! I love my '57 vintage .300 H&H!

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag GreatWaputi #4087297 05/15/10
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,277 NE Nevada weaselsRus Campfire Tracker
weaselsRus Campfire Tracker Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,277 NE Nevada	"Wouldn't own a gun I didn't shoot" LOL, still haven't shot the one I got from you! Last edited by weaselsRus; 05/16/10. Eagles may soar, but a weasel never got sucked into a jet turbine!

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag weaselsRus #4088970 05/16/10
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 10,005 Likes: 1 J Jericho Campfire Outfitter
Jericho Campfire Outfitter J Joined: May 2002 Posts: 10,005 Likes: 1	The last 300H&H M70 I saw was beat to death and priced at $1800.

Re: 1937 Win M70 300 H&H mag Jericho #4089405 05/16/10
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OP LRF Campfire Regular L Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,385 Minnesota USA	Let me ask a question: As I said in my first comment, the gun was already drilled and tapped when I got it. The pattern of screws and dowel pin locations is not typical G&H. The typical G&H screw pattern has been, screw, dowel, screw, dowel, screw. This gun was dowel, screw, screw, screw, dowel. I would be curious if anyone may know what the original mount might have been? G&H, Echo, and Jaeger all used the same pattern so it wasn't any of them. Also I did sight the gun in today. I sighted the scope for 2" high at 100 yards. I then removed the scope and re-installed it. I was very much pleasantly surprised when the next 3 shots went into a 3/4" group 2" high. Save the Earth...its the only planet with chocolate!

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