Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors Hell of a deal … $105.28

https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...herweight-30-06-nib.cfm?gun_id=102326328

Not so sure about that sales receipt …

Man, I need a time machine...

Shipping went up about the same % also.

Wow that is something

Retail on that sg fw in 1958 was $192.75 so either someone got a smoking deal or that sales receipt is apocryphal. I didn’t think they had printers like that in 1960 but I need ingwe to confirm.

I would love to have this rifle it is so cool in its own right but MFA in Laredo is about 10 min from my hometown and our ranch. Been there a few times would be so cool to have this rifle with the local connection only adding to the appeal for me.

Lay the money down..

AKwolverine: One of my references shows the suggested retail price in 1963 for Featherweight (non-Supergrade!) Rifles in standard calibers (non-264 Winchester magnums) to be EXACTLY $139.00 - which is the same as shown on the receipt/invoice!
I think someone found this gun laying around and misquoted (made a mistake?) and charged that price to the buying entity - that price being for the the standard Featherweight price and not the Supergrade price?
Either way I would like to own that nifty rig - but NOT for $10,999.00.
Long live the Riflemans Rifle.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
P.S.: My extrapolation puts that Rifles date of manufacture at March 15th of 1960 - I wonder were it sat around at for that length of time?

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That; or the receipt is for a different gun.

If it was for this gun - wow!

If indeed it sat around that long, from 60 to 64, I bet the distributor was glad to move it at that price. Perhaps it was the deal they struck. Fascinating stuff

This happens today too because I just picked up a Kimber that was sitting on a dealers shelf for five years. They put it up for auction cheap!

I saw this yesterday and you beat me to posting on it. Super cool rifle. Too nice for me because with that provenance, I'd never want to shoot it. But I'd never spend that much to only sit in the safe.

MFA Central Coop of Laredo, MO was founded in 2003. So, the receipt style & date aren't adding up!

August 1964, I paid $132 for a Winchester Model 88 in.308

Counterfeited paper work??

Same seller posted featherweight today. No fabricated receipt. But has the "original box" and "hang tag". Funny for a NIB featherweight chambered in 264, it has a recoil pad! Somebody is a cardboard artist and is trying to triple or quadruple his profits.

https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...odel-70-264-fwt-nib.cfm?gun_id=102330803

If I am reading my rule book correctly. The 1963 264 wm featherweight had a recoil pad as shown. This example is about 15000 short of this serial number range but he does go on to describe the westerner featherweight as a mid year introduction. Interesting. Page 233 for those interested.

Well I guess I stand corrected. I'll have to re-read my book. Didn't think any featherweights ever had a recoil pad.

Looking into this a little more the receipt calls out 7064 which is a standard grade 30-06 both the box and hang tag show 7084 which is the super grade which this rifle clearly is so box rifle and hang tag all seem to match up except for they discontinued 7084 in 1959 but it is within a small number of serial numbers into following year which could be explained by just using up parts.

I spoke to my dad who is in his mid 80’s and our family has been in this area since mid 1800’s. MFA was established in 20’s but they were called farmers exchanges to the local farmers. He was on the board of another exchange but doesn’t know how they were linked with their purchasing with the larger MFA. They definitely had one but sure how billing would have been invoiced in a purchase like this. So the receipt at best is real and the distributed just invoices the wrong style number and they got a heck of a deal. At worst it is a fabrication or somewhere in the middle it is just the receipt for a different gun.

Bobdahunter & IDG397: I have 6 pre-64 Winchester Model 70's in my collection in caliber 264 Winchester Magnum - 4 are Standard Rifles ("Westerners" - no recoil pad - just a buttplate) and 2 are Featherweights in 264 Winchester Magnum - they both have factory original recoil pads.
Long live the Riflemans Rifle!
I am leaning strongly to the "invoice"/"receipt"/Rifle being legit.
Many Model 70's appear to have been "manufactured" from on hand parts etc, at the factory, well after they quit being "cataloged".
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy