The folks that care about pre 64s won't be around in 20 years.
in 20 years i'll still be shooting my old rifles, i doubt that you be shooting your "newer plastic" guns.
Originally Posted by DigitalDan
Originally Posted by Kodiakisland
The folks that care about pre 64s won't be around in 20 years.
When are you moving to California?
Some folks are easily triggered, but sometimes the truth hurts. Your kids/grandkids won't care about most of your crap when you're gone, and that's just how it is. I'll be one of those gone in 20 years and all my blued steel, fine walnut stocks won't impress anyone. Sorry, I've no plastic guns to shoot now, so yep, I doubt I'll be shooting any from the grave. If I did have some though, that's what the grandkids would ask for.
The number of people who care about pre 64s have been on a steady decline for years. 20 years from now they will be such a small segment of gun ownership to be statistically insignificant. Sure, there will be a very small number of people who want one, but it will be very small, even compared to todays number. I'm sure you raised your kids right and all the blah, blah, blah, but pre 64s aren't what they once were and 20 years from now will be even less.
You didn't answer my question.
Since I'll be dead, I'd have thought you could work that one out on your own, but no, in 20 years I most likely will not be moving to California.
There will always be these discussions about the Winchesters, but I seriously doubt that there has ever been a more accurate mass produced rifle than those Model 70 Heavy Varmint rifles built back in the 1990's.
I have owned countless rifles, dozens with custom barrels etc.... and my pre64m70's have consistently been among the most accurate.... pretty good for sloppy tolerance, handmade, obsolete junk
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1955 M70 Featherweight at 100yds off the shelf. My last 1963 Featherweight did damn near this at 200yds witnessed, have the group in the man cave. Yea they suck.
The folks that care about pre 64s won't be around in 20 years.
in 20 years i'll still be shooting my old rifles, i doubt that you be shooting your "newer plastic" guns.
Originally Posted by DigitalDan
Originally Posted by Kodiakisland
The folks that care about pre 64s won't be around in 20 years.
When are you moving to California?
Some folks are easily triggered, but sometimes the truth hurts. Your kids/grandkids won't care about most of your crap when you're gone, and that's just how it is. I'll be one of those gone in 20 years and all my blued steel, fine walnut stocks won't impress anyone. Sorry, I've no plastic guns to shoot now, so yep, I doubt I'll be shooting any from the grave. If I did have some though, that's what the grandkids would ask for.
The number of people who care about pre 64s have been on a steady decline for years. 20 years from now they will be such a small segment of gun ownership to be statistically insignificant. Sure, there will be a very small number of people who want one, but it will be very small, even compared to todays number. I'm sure you raised your kids right and all the blah, blah, blah, but pre 64s aren't what they once were and 20 years from now will be even less.
You didn't answer my question.
savage axis, thompson center venture, Remington m783...any cheap gun will satisfy you.
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Russian Admiral said, after the Moskva sank, "we have the world's worst navy but we aren't as bad as our army".
There isn’t a stainless/plastic gun that is capable of killing more game or making a better hunter out of the owner, just by virtue of it’s machining and close tolerances. If there is anyone that needs 1/2 inch more accuracy from a rifle, I doubt he could use the extra accuracy to his advantage.
The entire shooting industry has been hungry for some sort of improvement in accuracy and cost of production, only to produce a POS like a Ruger American, which incorporates all the attributes that the more recent shooter has embraced. If this is improvement, I stand firmly in the past, with an outdated, but capable rifle that won’t give up a single measurable feature to the new standard.
60 years from now, a Ruger American and many of the now hyped rifles and cartridges, will hardly be the collectors items a Pre-64 Winchester is today…
That right there is indisputable logic!
I sure could go for some $2.50/gal gas and a mean tweet!
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I had a very nice Pre 64 Winchester Model 70, but passed it on to my first son when he graduated High School. If I came across a good standard weight Pre 64 Model 70 in 30/06, I doubt I could pass it up... It is, to me, one of the best looking commercial rifles made.
Nobody collects Model Ts anymore, nobody collects Rev war anymore. The fools paying a million for a Graveyard car better enjoy it now as in 50 years no one will care.
Fine American single shots are now selling for 1/3 what they did 30 years ago.
Exactly whatinhell are you talking about? Don't get out much do you, Larry?
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
I’ve never owned a pre 64 M70 but it’s been high on my radar for years, something else always comes up first.
I was on the verge of buying a very nice unmodified pre war M70 in 300 H&H several years back that was for sale by an older guy selling off his collection.
I didn’t have the full asking price at the time but after a long phone conversation talking guns we agreed to 1/2 then and the other half in six weeks. I sent him a M/O for half and when I called him to tell him that I would be sending the other half he told me that the rifle was already sold. It turned out that he was suffering from dementia which was his reason for liquidating his collection. He forgot about our agreement and sold it to someone else. He sent me a check on the spot to refund the 1/2 that I had already paid. I’d have loved to have had that rifle.
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