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Sigh. Time to sell one of the premier guns in my small stable.





Winchester Model 70 Left handed 375 H&H. Factory barreled action in a McMillan Echols Legend Stock. Stock has been hydrodipped to look like walnut (I explained to the guys at the dipping shop how to tip the stock so that the grain runs up through the grip.)





13.5" LOP to 1" red pad.

Rear tang has been cut into a pre-64 style, and the bolt stop built up; both done by James Anderson.



Williams one-piece bottom metal. It has the front of the tirgger guard floorplate release, which is preferable on big bores.



Only flaw on this gun is that one of the original holes for the sight bases was out of alignment. I took it to D'Arcy Echols, and his solution was to drill an additional 8x40 hole in the correct alignment, and make a custom base to match. I have both two-piece picatinny style bases and the one-piece rail as shown.

Rifle has been to Africa; it shot the zebra whose hide is shown in the pictures. The metal work does show the slight handling marks of a hunted gun, but the stock was added after that trip.

Everybody needs to have run an H&H case through a properly tuned CRF action before they offer many opinions about how a gun should feed. This gun is so smooth at picking up a round that sometimes when doing two-shot drills, I did not know it had picked up the second round when I was cycling it at my shoulder.

So why am I selling it? It is uncertain that I will every go back to Africa, and I have a .416 Rem I would likely take if I did. It has just become a "tweener" and somebody who will shoot it more should have it.

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$2000 plus shipping. If somebody here does not want it, I will move it to gunbroker, and would not be surpised if it brings more.

off the charts cool factor !

Bump for an uber cool rifle. Seller is GTG as well. Good luck with your sale...

Very nice rifle

I appreciate the kind words.

A super cool lefty rifle. When did you take the pictures?? The tree's have leaves already in Utah?

Doc

Very nice and the price seems fair... very tempting as a lefty...

I took the pictures last summer--been working up the nerve to sell it. We are a long way from having leaves. It snowed here most of the day.

What is below the hydrodip - is there a painted stock if I wanted to remove the dip - is that possible?

Nice rifle.

You could remove the dip coating with a stripper, but you would end up with a fiberglass blank that needed painting.

Wish I was a southpaw

No reason a right hander couldn't shot a left hand rifle. Left handers shoot right hand rifles all the time...

you should drop a link to Romo I think he was looking for one of these . I don't know if he found one or not.

One more trip around the block, and then off to gunbroker.

C'mon you lefty's....someone is going to be looking for one of these and they aren't easy to find!

Bump for Utah and a nice 375H&H.

Sell the 416 and keep that one...

Tag

Unfortunately, I fell off the "no new rifles" wagon a week before Utah posted up his .375. Have most of the parts for my next build enroute. Otherwise Utah's rifle would be sitting in KY next to it's "little brother":



LH M70 .300H&H, also in an Echols stock.

SPF, but not headed to Kentucky.

Someone got a good deal....