Post by 7mmmountaineer on Nov 9, 2015 13:18:42 GMT -5
A few months ago I put out some feelers looking for a late 40's era Mod 70 Winchester in 257 Roberts like the one I lost in the fire we had a few years back. I found one in my own backyard so to speak. A customer of ours just inherited one from his father's estate and is looking to move it. So I stopped to see it while I was out dealing with a problem customer this morning. Looks wise I would give it a 6 bluing needs some work, the stock would need refinished and bedded, the bolt has a couple small pits just in front of the bolt handle, the barrel well that thing was mirror clean and I even ran my bore scope through it. The man claims his father stopped using the rifle in the 70's and that he used it for a short time after that. He won't sell it but wants to trade and I think his asking price is to steep he wants my scoped Winchester Mod 70 Ultimate Shadow 7RM and my Rem 700 SPS Varmint 308 plus all my load data for just his bare rifle. Personally I think he is asking to much despite what they book for but man I would love to get my hands on another one of these. So what do you guys think?
My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
