45arc: Oh let me count them ALL up!
But two of them really stick in my craw the painiest.
Back when I was kind of new to "collecting" and I was thinking "short-term" and "making profits" more than rarity or upper-end collectability, I came across and bought 2 (two!) pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Supergrade Africans!
Foolishly I let myself be talked out of them, for a pittance of profit, before I knew just how very rare these collector quality Africans were!
If I recall correctly I made $100.00 on the first African and $150.00 on the other.
They would be worth 8 to 10 times today for what I sold them for back then!
I have been trying to replace an "African" into my Model 70 collection for the last 50 years or so now!
Lesson learned there - I now know that only 0.21% of ALL pre-64 Winchester Model 70's were/are Supergrade Africans (only 1,226 of them ever made!).
Long live The Riflemans Rifle.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
