I have a buddy who's not an internet guy (older) looking for one and the only one I saw recently sold for $2,600! It was a .30-06, SS LH Win. Model 70, looked almost new in box and had a Walnut stock.

From what I hear, those LH stainless steel models were only in production for about 4 years and were some of the best-built, highest quality by Winchester. The machining and production over those short years was almost all on new equipment too.

What have you seen these go for and how often do they come up for sale?

Thanks,
John

They don't come up all that often and when they do I usually see them go around $1500 on GB. I've been lucky enough to score a couple for less, one right here on the fire, you just have to keep your eyes open and act fast.

They don't come around often and the .473" bolt face rifles bring the highest prices.
Rarely you can luck into one. I bought one here in MN not too long ago and I had to move fast to get it.
It was a 7RM with perfect metal but a big gouge in the stock. It wore a 4.5-14x40 Vari-XIII in Leupold WA mounts.
I paid $650 for the package!
I added a good walnut stock and a McSwirly, both used, traded the scope straight across for a 3-9x40 Conquest, put the Conquest in S&K's and sold it here in MN for $1800.
If it'd been a .473" rifle, preferably in .270, I'd still have it.

Price goes much higher than quality. That was not a good era for Winchester. Many problems are frequent with that group including scope mount holes not drilled correctly, poor accuracy, poor barrels, etc.

I suppose if one wanted a lefty stainless, you could end up with a donor action in the worst case for a project gun, but don't expect good accuracy or quality just buying one out of the blue. MRC would be the way to go.

Only speaking from experience. Had a stainless 338. Had to use windage adjustable bases, cause the holes were so damn crooked. Got the accuracy to about 2.5" at 100 with some work and restocking. Only reason I wish I would have held on to it, is for the overinflating values by folks that don't know better.

This is the biggest load of sour grapes HORSESHIT. I frequently read posts by people who NO LONGER OWN a stainless left-handed Winchester Model 70 and the tone of the posts are frequently the same: you had one, got rid of it in favor of another project or to fund a high-dollar hunting trip, and now you're hypercritical of the rifles because you can't easily replace it and can't replace it at the price it was ten years ago.

The truth is you thought the left-handed Model 70 would be made forever and all time once it was introduced. Easy come, easy go. If one showed up right now for $750, you'd sure as hell try and buy it and if Winchester started making them again for under a $1K, you'd probably buy more than one and post effusive, laudatory comments about it being the best thing since sliced bread and poptop beer. You'd be posting how competing rifles need beaucoup work and how unsatisfactory they really are. And I'd call bullshit on that, too.

GET OVER IT.

I tend to agree with Ken. I have had three customs built off of Lh 70s, and they were all significantly flawed from the factory. Mark Penrod said the action I sent him to build a 7 RM was 30-thou out of true, and that for whatever reason, the LH M70s that go through his shop are not nearly as true as the RH.

I still buy them when I get a good deal, and use them for my main hunting guns, but I have no idealist delusions about their quality.

Your ulterior motives are showing through your thinly disguised criticisms.

If stainless left-handed Model 70s are SOOOOOOO "bad," then why bother at all? Stainless MRC actions and stainless Ruger 77s are widely available. If a stainless left-handed Model 70 were that "bad," then the solution is easy: DON'T BUY IT. Of course if you're interested in buying one -- or more than one -- it's to your advantage to plant those seeds of doubt in your potential competitors.

Because I prefer them to the 3 MRC I have, and the several M77s.

But your histrionics are revealing your thinly suppressed self-doubt.

Spin it however you want. "He doth protest too much, methinks."

None whatsoever, though I do regret having sold a couple of Model 70s when they were all free and easy and I certainly regret not buying more when they were seemingly everywhere.

I don't bother at all....I wouldn't touch one for $600, and could care less if they bring out lefties or not. I have owned three lefty Winchesters actually, the 338, and then the newer versions in 7mm and 300 WSM. The WSM's were as equally unimpressive. Didn't have quite the flaws that even Ray Charles could see out of the box, but they were not anything special, and certainly not anything to mention as far as accuracy. I would pay $900 for a stainless Ruger long before I would pay even $700 or $800 for a lefty stainless Winchester.
Now they decide to save a few pennies by having the guns assembled in Portugal.....screw them, they are in the same downward tube as Browning.

BUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

Your sour grapes bullshit is getting deeper.

I guess I'm just a lucky bastard then. All three that I have/had are all shooters. My 06 is boring in that it shoots anything and everything into about the same point of aim and always in little groups. My newest addition, a 270 is looking to be the same way. The 300 Win I tore apart to built my 358 Norma was very accurate and I almost hesitated to tear it apart. (never shoot the donor)

It can't be true. The usual suspects -- the same three or four knotheads -- who post on the various hunting and shooting message boards say it ain't so. Stainless steel left-handed Model 70 Winchesters are TERRIBLE. Just ask THEM. Like a lot of other things, it's just the same old tired-ass BULLSHIT from the same three or four dubious sources. The latest wrinkle is utah708's explanation: they suck, but he prefers them. But he thinks they suck.

You f*ckers need to put a little more thought into the bullshit tales you tell.

I think LH Stainless Model 70s suck. I wouldn't give $600 for one unless it was a 7 X 57 with a Lilja barrel. Then I might go $650

I fact I wouldn't own ANY LH Model 70. All 5 of mine suck and don't shoot. I keep trying to give them away, but they are so bad no one wants them.

I couldn't possibly let mine go for any less than $650.01.

Throw in the Leupold and a couple of boxes of 7X57, and I will give you $650.01

Dear John,

This has been my experience as well. I have paid on average about $1,600 for each of my LH SS Model 70s, with the most being for a NIB .270 and a slightly used 300 win. mag. at over $2,000 each. Only two of these came with scopes and neither scope was worth more than $200.

Keep looking. Else, find out who has one and pester them to sell you one- just don't ask me- I plan on keeping mine for my entire lifetime.
Best,
CL

That's a tempting offer. I'll have to consult my magic 8-ball.

I better get rid of this POS before it starts shooting any worse. It's the worst shooting rifle I've ever used. Fit and finish are terrible. I'll take $4500 as is.


Just kidding about the sale price. Someone actually might take me up on it. It's not for sale.

I would also like to take this opportunity to list the following [bleep] left-handed guns:

• Anything Benelli
• Anything Sako
• Anything Dakota
• Anything Kimber
• Anything Cooper
• Anything Sauer

Please be advised nothing on that list possesses any value over $500 U.S. Especially the Dakotas.

P.S. I reserve the right to update that list as required.

Jeez don't forget those junk NULA guns.

Both these bucks were killed with left handed, 2nd hand NULA muzzleloaders this past fall. The original owner of mine couldn't get it to shoot. I've killed 15 deer (pretty sure they were all one shot kills too) with it in 4 year. Junk................

Absolutely terrible! Melvin Forbes should be ashamed.

i bought a 30-06 stainless lefthanded winchester 70 with a boss in a walnut stock years ago when a distributor was getting rid of them on close out for under 300 dollars. i should have bought the last three he had but didn't. i call it my factory ammo gun. i bought a few cases of federal ammo and tuned the boss for it. i use it to hunt with whenever i don't feel like reloading ammo for anything else. more than accurate enough for what i shoot at.

What did the magic 8 ball say?

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi

I'll show that site to my wife for when she has some pressing questions for me.....

I owned two SS lefties and to say it blunt, both were [bleep]. Neither were accurate, one was not head spaced correctly and both were heavy. Holes for the scope bases were not drilled in the right spots either as one had to be shimmed to sight in and one was drilled slightly off center. Both were poorly finished as far as the wood and metal went. Rough as a cobb.

Sold the first one when Winchester was still making these and sold the second about 2-3 years after they stopped. I'll NEVER buy another. I have no problem buying a MRC action and going from there. And I like the latest lefties Win produced and built the WSM's on.

I would absolutely pick a SS Ruger to use as a donor rifle even if someone offered me a SS Win 70 lefty for the same price.

Whatever you say, Br'er Rabbit.



Go ahead and cook up some more BULLSHIT to serve.

Magic 8 Ball said "absolutely". Where do I mail the check?

I sold a very nice LH SS Win 70 06 several years ago for around 1K very accurate and a nice rifle. My LH SS Ruger 77 MK 2 06 shoots just as well and it is the one I kept.

I sold my LH SS Classic in 338 mag here last spring. I got $1200 for it and another $300 for it's McMillan stock.
Not bad for a gun I bought for $580 new back in the only year they made a walnut, stainless in the LH version.
Mine shot very well, easily MOA with my reloads on a good day.
I also have a LH Remington 700 BDL, LH Browning SS in 7-08 and a custom MRC Lefty in 308. I would rate my LH Model 70 right up there with any of the others in fit, finish and accuracy.

In today's market, you'd get way more than $1,500 for the combo, probably $2,000+. It is very rare that any of the LH Left Hand Winchester Model 70 Stainless Classics come up for sale. Mine are incredible accurate and smooth and it took me over 10 years of searching to build my hunting 'battery'.

As an example for just the stock on the rifle- the other day, a Winchester Collector offered to buy the original Walnut stock on one of my LH Stainless Classics and the empty factory box the rifle came in for $375. More often, I get asked to sell one of my rifles but I'm just not parting with any.

Best of success in your search.

Ok, I'll keep a lookout for my buddy. It sounds like $1,500 to $2,500+ depending on cartridge, quality of Walnut and whether or not it comes with a scope.

Thank you.

SOLD !

And them some. These lefty rifles are very expensive.

I had one friend who spent about $2,000 for one just around the time that Winchester stopped production in New Haven.