My new Meat Stick

October 19, 2023, 03:40 PM

hray

My new Meat Stick

This is #3 Winchester model 70 in 270 in the house hold. First one I purchased new in mid 90's Sporter version "Classic" that I have been toting around the woods for about 27 years and has taken it's fare share of deer and pigs.

Second one is I believe an early 80s ranger model I picked up from a friend at work for a song. Which is for my oldest daughter whom has put it to good use fillings tags with me.

For the last several years as I have gotten a little older I have been regretting not getting the featherweight version way back when. To be honest wasn't vary familiar with them back then. So today I finally pulled the trigger and bought a new Featherweight in 270. I know the die hard Model 70 guy's may frown upon the assembled in Portugal thing and I'm no expert but this rifle is sweet, fit / finish and wood is excellent. The action is smooth, smoother than my classic. Trigger is crisp and no creep. Don't know the pull weight but it feels dare I say better than my classic. Now to put some glass on it and take her to the range next week for sight in. Will be heading to Ga. in 3 weeks to properly break her in, in the field. Hray

October 19, 2023, 03:44 PM

OttoSig

Be awfully cool if we had a forum room just for this type stuff.

October 19, 2023, 03:51 PM

ArtieS

Very nice. I have lusted after that rifle in .243, which always struck me as a perfect caliber for a lightweight.

I hope it serves you well!

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

October 19, 2023, 03:59 PM

hray

quote:
Originally posted by OttoSig:
Be awfully cool if we had a forum room just for this type stuff.

Would be would-en it.

October 19, 2023, 04:01 PM

erj_pilot

Thought this was going to be an offshoot of the Viagra thread.

"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24

October 19, 2023, 05:22 PM

RichardC

quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Thought this was going to be an offshoot of the Viagra thread.

Hardly.

October 19, 2023, 05:40 PM

muzzleloader

Congratulations! When I find one in 6.5 Swedish, it’ll be mine.

October 19, 2023, 05:41 PM

RichardC

quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Thought this was going to be an offshoot of the Viagra thread.

Hardly.

hray, that rifle embodies the essence of the term "elegant". Congratulations!

October 19, 2023, 09:01 PM

amals

Very nice-looking rifle.

October 20, 2023, 05:54 AM

sourdough44

I have a handful of Model 70’s, more of the shooter category than collector.

For hunting I often lean towards lighter, shorter guns, of a modest chambering. The closest I have to your picture is a ‘Classic Compact’ in 243, 20” barrel. I bought it from Walmart, 15-18 years ago.

I also have a mid-70’s 308, a ‘Coyote’ in 223. I’ve used the heavier barreled 223 for prairie dogs a good bit.

My only older Model 70 isn’t really that collectible, though it dates to 1938. This gun is in 22 Hornet. The reason I got a deal on it, a braised on scope base, the chamber has also been opened up to the ‘K-Hornet’.

Those issues aside, it’s in fine shape, craftsmanship is exquisite.

One of my friends favorite round is the 270, mostly deer. He has bought a few guns for grandsons, always a 270.