Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors This price fishy on a AS New Pre 64

Came across this on GB. Looks like price is too low...Anyone have thoughts? 😎

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/798832884

Yes I saw that too, if it's legit it's a good deal, he does have 78 dealings/good rating ...?

It is the end of an era, extremely clean gun, but is a 1963!

This one was for sale in a forum more local for a while, apparently didn't sell. It is priced lower than it was. It did look good however. I would guess being a '63 hurts some.

That is a good deal but not a giveaway. The aluminum butts with wide hand cut checkering panels fetch the money. Buy it if you like it.

A lot can change in the last half hour of the auction...

If there isn't a "10 minute rule", or 15, or whatever, a lot can change in the last thirty seconds!

Beaver10: In compiling my extensive collection of pre-64 Winchester Model 70's the 270 Featherweights (in MINT original condition!) were/are VERY hard to find!
Whether that be with aluminum buttplate or hard plastic!
Reason - they were rather rare to begin with and most that got sold back in the day got Hunted with, long and hard. They were (are!) outstanding Hunting Rifles and very few exist in MINT condition.
I would LOVE to handle that 270 Featherweight in person - if it met my criterion (and it appears it does!) I would buy it, at that asking price, instantly!
Pictures are gushy - I wish they were sharper.
I have a plethora of 270's in Supergrades and Standard Rifles BUT only one, mint, Featherweight 270!
Long live the Riflemans Rifle.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

YOU SUCK!!!
Just kidding. But I am a touch envious.

You folks realize that it has a Buy it Now price of $1299.00

VG...I would have owned it already. Unfortunately, I fall under the spell of the “WSM” requirement for my liking in a 270

You have my blessing to buy her to add to your collection. I agree, it’s a nice featherweight. 😎

I just PM’d the seller about the buttplate. If it’s not plastic, I may throw a number at it. If won, I will give it a once over with a cloth and put it away for another 10 years. Seems like a nice rifle in a popular caliber for some. 😎

If it's NOT plastic then it's not correct.

1963 models had plastic buttplates?

I was searching Google for a date Winchester changed from aluminum to plastic...Didn’t see anything. Appreciate your knowledge on this

sbrmike: That "asking price" was the price I was referring to when I wrote "I would buy it, at that ASKING PRICE, instantly" (if it met my criterion)!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I was surprised that the seller set the buy it now price so low, the buyer got a real deal there. During the last year or so Winchester stopped using metal buttplates and changed to plastic or as some call it "composite". Everything on that rifle looked correct to me and the seller described it accurately.

They made the change to the composite butt plate in 1959. So for something like the last 4 or 5 years, they had the inferior butt plate. A lot of which I've seen crack. For other reasons, Including the larger checkered panels and quality of black walnut used, the Aluminum butt plate models were more popular and bring more money. With that being said, the rifle the OP posted would have been a good deal at the buy it now price. Hopefully he bought it, if it was something he truly desired..

The composite buttplate with its phillips head screws and the small narrow checkering panels never appealed to me, never bought any of the models with those features.

Darn it! 63 or not, I wished I would have opened this sooner. I would have scooped that sucker up for that price all day long. To me, the 270 Featherweight is the epitome of a solid killing rifle.. I already have one, but I know they aren't making more and I'd bet my son wouldn't have minded hunting that one on his trips home from Oki!

I have seen some featherweights that dated to late ‘58 with the plastic plate. I suspect like many things Winchester, there was a bit of a transition.