Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles M70 375 H&H 5 Digit Caught My Eye

Saw one in LGS. SN G96508, looks new. Walnut and blue w/ iron sights. Black Decelerator pad.
All you guys saying how much you enjoy your 375’s got me interested in this one.

What would you say this is worth?

850-1250 depending on condition....with the proviso that I have not seen a 375 with a serial number that low for sale for a while.

With that SN, what year would that have been built?

I will buy it if you pass. Please let me know.

I've owned three of the Pre 64 375's and one thing I can say is they have all been very, very accurate. Overlapping holes in the target at 100 is very common with these but the recoil can be brutal- which is why I don't own any of them any more....

If you can handle the recoil, probably one of the best elk and big bear guns ever built and a perfect rifle for Africa...

Bob

1994

Ive owned a couple myself and i agree about the recoil. A lot of guys say its just a gentle pish back, but that wasn't my experience. Id much rather shoot my lightweight 338wm. As for the rifle in the op, i think its easily worth $1,100.00+/- $100

Recoil is stout but certainly tolerable if you have the right stock.

I would jump on that especially if it was a LH rifle. 1994 is well before the New Haven plant went to a double shift and then shut down. My rifle is of that era and had a barrel so far out of alignment that I ran out of scope adjustments before I was on paper. Lee Haskins at the custom shop made it right and I think they used a custom shop barrel as the rifle is more accurate than I can shoot. Recoil with the Express does not seem too bad to me, but I shoot mostly 250-260 grain bullets so might think otherwise if I used 300-350s a lot. I think either D'Arcy Echols or Bill Miller designed the stock, not sure which.

Sheister, It’s good to see you back on the “fire”! memtb

Thanks, Might say I'm "sticking my toe in the water"....

Bob

The water is as toxic as it ever was! memtb

I’ve owned 2 classics and a CZ550 in 375 H&H. I’d rather shoot a 375 than any 300WM or a lightweight 300WSM for that matter. The CZ’s were nice rifles, but an absolute tank with a 25” barrel. The classic can be a nice rifle, but need gone through IMO. They pair extremely well with the Micky Supergrade stocks.

So TomM1,
What would need to be addressed in your opinion when you say “need gone through”?

Thanks to you and the others who have contributed.

Yeah, but now some of us are confined to our houses. Sheister is probably one of them. The other day, we were shut down for working in Portland.
Im not tom, but that rifle is going to need a good glass bedding job, trigger is going to need to be tuned/lightened. Thats about the only thing an early classic is going to need.

Feeding and extraction, plus trigger job. A good smith will tune the extractor, polish rails and ramp, play with mag spring, box and follower until it feeds and extracts everything from pointy tip stuff to round noses.

Have never owned a Classic Model 70 that needed any of that mentioned to kill big game perfectly dead every fall. They all feed and extract slick as snot having never had the extractor rails ramp mag box spring follower or bedding for that matter ever touched.

99 times out of 100 the only thing they "need" is a stone to the trigger down to about 3 pounds.

This is in "Hunting Rifles" right?