Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Winchester Collectors Barrel marking's M70

Print Thread

Hop To

Barrel marking's M70 #7891786 07/12/13
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 130 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY C chance OP Campfire Member
OP chance Campfire Member C Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 130 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY	I recently bought a M70 in 270W the action is a 1941 but the barrel is marked 38 do you think this is the way it came or was the barrel replaced at some point?

GB1

Re: Barrel marking's M70 chance #7891872 07/12/13
Joined: May 2010 Posts: 7,370 The West Mountain P Poconojack Campfire Tracker
Poconojack Campfire Tracker P Joined: May 2010 Posts: 7,370 The West Mountain	It's very possible that your rifle was assembled in 1941 with a barrel that had been marked/dated in 1938. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson

Re: Barrel marking's M70 Poconojack #7892715 07/12/13
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,168 Wisconsin - Land of the PACKER... R reelman Campfire Tracker
reelman Campfire Tracker R Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,168 Wisconsin - Land of the PACKER...	I would say more than just possible, it's most likely probable that it's original.

Re: Barrel marking's M70 reelman #7895278 07/13/13
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,253 W winchesterpoor Campfire Regular
winchesterpoor Campfire Regular W Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,253	Originally Posted by reelman I would say more than just possible, it's most likely probable that it's original. reelman is on! If you are dis,mispleased with the gun I will take her as is...

Moderated by RickBin

Link Copied to Clipboard

AX24

672 members (10gaugemag, 1beaver_shooter, 1badf350, 1936M71, 10Glocks, 12344mag, 61 invisible), 2,438 guests, and 1,223 robots.

Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod

May
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Forum Statistics

Forums81

Topics1,193,630

Posts18,512,055

Members74,010

Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023

Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.3.33 Page Time: 0.121s Queries: 22 (0.008s) Memory: 0.8071 MB (Peak: 0.8501 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-05-15 00:18:53 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS