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264 Win Mag Model 70 XTR?
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<blockquote data-quote="65WSM" data-source="post: 1006449" data-attributes="member: 9551"><p><a href="http://www.winchesterguns.com/support/files/images/wfa/2012-All/2012-Articles/Winchester-Manufacture-Dates-by-Year----2012-Scanned-Documents.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.winchesterguns.com/support/files/images/wfa/2012-All/2012-Articles/Winchester-Manufacture-Dates-by-Year----2012-Scanned-Documents.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Above is the date of manufacture. It sounds like a push feed rifle. The stock will have pressed inward checkering. There were many manufacturing shortcuts to these Model 70s. This is when the Olin corporate beancounters tried to make the Firearms Division profitable like a fortune 500 company. There is very little loving care in these rifles.</p><p></p><p>I had two "Pre-64" Model 70s in .264 Win Mag (both 1959). One had a stainless barrel that was plated with iron and then blued. It peeled with bright stainless behind it. I handloaded for the cartridge for years then switched to the WSM version of the cartridge with a little less capacity and a little more barrel life. I have 6.5-06 Ackley and 6.5-284 Model 70s too.</p><p></p><p>At some point I will buy another .264 Model 70. Cabelas had it a a featured cartridge last year and ended up selling most of them a cost or below. Do not pay much for <em><strong>any</strong></em> rifle in this cartridge. There are a lot of them available on used gun racks for a song.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="65WSM, post: 1006449, member: 9551"] [url]http://www.winchesterguns.com/support/files/images/wfa/2012-All/2012-Articles/Winchester-Manufacture-Dates-by-Year----2012-Scanned-Documents.pdf[/url] Above is the date of manufacture. It sounds like a push feed rifle. The stock will have pressed inward checkering. There were many manufacturing shortcuts to these Model 70s. This is when the Olin corporate beancounters tried to make the Firearms Division profitable like a fortune 500 company. There is very little loving care in these rifles. I had two "Pre-64" Model 70s in .264 Win Mag (both 1959). One had a stainless barrel that was plated with iron and then blued. It peeled with bright stainless behind it. I handloaded for the cartridge for years then switched to the WSM version of the cartridge with a little less capacity and a little more barrel life. I have 6.5-06 Ackley and 6.5-284 Model 70s too. At some point I will buy another .264 Model 70. Cabelas had it a a featured cartridge last year and ended up selling most of them a cost or below. Do not pay much for [I][B]any[/B][/I] rifle in this cartridge. There are a lot of them available on used gun racks for a song. [/QUOTE]
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