Hello all. I made my yearly trip down to Anchorage with the wife for Christmas and came back with a pretty neat present. Figured you guys would enjoy. It’s a 1961 standard grade 30-06. New unfired with all the hang tags and paperwork/box. I’m not really a collector but rather use my old model 70s like they were Walmart Remingtons. Not quite sure what to do with this one, but for now it’s going to stay hung up like a piece of artwork in my home. Happy new year
Hydemill: WHOA.... that'll do! What a cool find/acquisition. Keep up the good work. I always liked those latter era Model 70's with the Monte Carlo stocks - they fit me "good". Enjoy and Happy new Year to you as well. If you don't mind my asking how did you find/come across this cool Rifle. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Right place right time. It was in a gunshop on the rack. I had to save it from being cycled and dryfired 10000 times. The guy that took it in had thrown away the bolt serial number hang tag!!! After a little digging through the trash it was recovered thankfully.
I know a guy, getting up in years now, who developed a fetish for M70's when he was a teenager in the 1950's. He started acquiring them, new in box, and salting them away in foot locker-style chests. His collection represents at least one of every variant Winchester offered, in all the calibers and all the grades, new unfired. I sh*t you not. As far as I know, his existence isn't known to the M70 collecting fraternity in general plus he is very reclusive in nature. (An odd duck, who literally bought that stuff way back then rather than cars, women, houses, food, etc. that most normal humans consider necessary. Always worked decent paying blue collar jobs and put literally every dime not needed for bare subsistence into M70's.)
Like I said, he is now of very advanced years so I suppose the inevitable will happen fairly soon. When that does happen, you'll probably know it by the market flooding all of a sudden with new-in-box M70's. Please don't ask me for contact info, I've respected his privacy for over 50 years now and shall continue to do so.
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I know a guy, getting up in years now, who developed a fetish for M70's when he was a teenager in the 1950's. He started acquiring them, new in box, and salting them away in foot locker-style chests. His collection represents at least one of every variant Winchester offered, in all the calibers and all the grades, new unfired. I sh*t you not. As far as I know, his existence isn't known to the M70 collecting fraternity in general plus he is very reclusive in nature. (An odd duck, who literally bought that stuff way back then rather than cars, women, houses, food, etc. that most normal humans consider necessary. Always worked decent paying blue collar jobs and put literally every dime not needed for bare subsistence into M70's.) Like I said, he is now of very advanced years so I suppose the inevitable will happen fairly soon. When that does happen, you'll probably know it by the market flooding all of a sudden with new-in-box M70's. Please don't ask me for contact info, I've respected his privacy for over 50 years now and shall continue to do so.
I hope he has someone set up to dispose of his collection and who understands what they are doing. I had a friend who introduced his wife to me 2 weeks before he was killed in a accident on a skeet range. After she went back into the house he asked me if anything were to happen to him please help his wife dispose of his very large collection. I sent her a quick letter offering my help. I didn’t even want to do that. In retrospect I should have. She took the guns to a shop 90 miles away and sold them at $200 a piece. He had a lot of nice doubles and model 70’s and the list went on. It was a sad situation and I wish he had told her to ask for my help. A similar thing happened when my best friend passed his son sold 15 nice guns to a gun shop for $100 a piece those guns would have brought $500-1000 ea. I ended up selling 5 guns for $5000 for him. I also bought his reloading collection for $10k as thats what he told me he wanted. I have sold more than $30k and am still working on get rid of what I don't need. Congratulations to the OP on a neat find. I did find a 1950 94 NIB. I ended up selling it to a friend as I wanted to shoot it. Lol I was born in 1970 figured it would be neat to be the one that popped its cherry. Well outside the factory, I was talked out of that more than once?.
