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Originally Posted by Craig T
Beautiful wood and checkering! The peep sight is cool too.
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Gotta love that Winchester "red" walnut. That, and just the care and attention we put into such things as simple as hunting rifles back then.
I admittedly just lucked into this thing. I had been hunting for a few years with a borrowed "camp gun" belonging to one of the old Seattle cops I started hunting with in my late teens (my dad had passed away by then, and never took us hunting, but that's another story). As an aside, I wish I had that "camp gun" today - a sporterized '98 Mauser in .257 Roberts. Oh well... Anyway, I really "needed" my own hunting rifle, but as a starving student, had to "settle" for a used one. I found this on the rack at a local pawn shop; I think I paid well under two hundred bucks for it. Took a lot of crap over this "big heavy thing" for years, until pre-'64 M70's suddenly became "special". None of that mattered; not then, not now. It was
my damn hunting rifle.
I just feel bad now, having left it behind for so long. Fairer maidens stole my heart, but now I've come to appreciate this old girl more so than ever.