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For Sale: a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .308 Win.

In excellent condition, with beautiful wood, this 1959-1960 era Featherweight has a plastic buttplate and is factory drilled and tapped (as all Model 70s were from that time).

Comes with Weaver bases and a set of Weaver rings (not shown).

I also have a gloss Leupold M8 6X available if you want to complete this vintage package!

Price: $1050 shipped and insured to the lower 48.

Honey......can you come look at this gun I have on muh screen?

Christmas is coming up and.......would you mind If I.......

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very nice gun

The stock has been cut down? That buttplate isn't original? Am I right to assume that?

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I think what you're seeing in the one pic is the foreshortened camera angle. Look at the first pic and it's obviously full factory length.

Everything looks right to me.

Very clean gun, czech1022 GLWYS....

PM sent.

Ok. The plastic buttplate threw me. The earlier FW's were aluminum I think. Didn't know Winchester used plastic on the pre-64 FW's. I obviously don't know the history... Thanks

Last couple years of pre 64 used plastic. Nice looking gun. Trades?

Right - the last few years before 1964, including this rifle's year, used plastic buttplates. It hasn't been cut - a clue to that being the gentle curve in the the wood. No gunsmith would add that curve when shortening a stock!

Trades will be considered, but cash is king.

I'll take it if still available

plastic stock plate and aluminum bottom metal, that's the late pre 64 fw model.

Find somewhere better than a rock pile to show it!

Hey, Ron, I thought the rock pile was original and kind of cool! I did use some felt to protect it from sharp edges.

Before anyone else makes a final decision, one PM asked about the plastic buttplate.

This is a rifle I picked up from a kid who inherited it from his father. There is a chance the buttplate is a new/old stock replacement, since when I look at it with a very critical eye, it is not the perfect fit I have seen on other pre-64's. The kid knows almost nothing about the rifle and was going to use it as a loaner for his nephew to hunt elk this year before I offered him enough to buy a new rifle in the caliber of his choice!

I will let 99guy off the hook if he decides he doesn't want it, in the interest of full disclosure.

There’s absolutely nothing incorrect about this rifle. The only thing missing is the front sight hood. The ‘composition’ buttplate replaced the aluminum plate early in 1959 (this rifle was serialized in June ‘61). As far as perfect fit, the wood on all M70’s should be ever so slightly proud to the metal or composition buttplate. Personally, I would be much more concerned about originality if the plate and wood were perfectly even. YMMV....

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And the transition from aluminum to composite may have even been earlier - I have seen guns which date to ‘58 with the composite.