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Pawn Shop Rescue- Weatherby Ultra Lightweight 270
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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 2940200" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>Congrats…..nice find at a good price these days! It looks like it might be a shooter!</p><p></p><p> I had similar, though with a much less expensive rifle, experience!</p><p></p><p> Back in '87, a friend of mine that used to make many of the gun shows with several tables of guns fixed me up with an older Winchester Model 670 in 30-06…..which was to be my daughter's rifle! She was in the 7th grade and in need of her first centerfire hunting rifle. Oh horror a 30-06…….Kids must have been a bit tougher back then! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /> The 670 was a poor man's Model 70…..Birch stock, no "bolt jeweling", no hinged floor plate, and not much for bluing!</p><p></p><p> The stock had a very small crack in the grip area (which he opened a bit and put some epoxyin the crack), and looked like it had spent much of it's life bouncing around in the bed of a pick-up truck! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="Slightly smiling face :slight_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" data-shortname=":slight_smile:" /></p><p></p><p> He sold it to me for $100, telling me if I wasn't happy with it, he'd give me my money back.</p><p></p><p> I put a cheap Bushnell scope on it, loaded up 2 different loads that I had developed for friends, and took it out for a "trial by fire"! From the bench, my pickup truck tailgate wasn't "inspiring"…..really bad! The next 5 shot group could be covered with a quarter! I had a $100 shooter…..I was pretty darn happy and decided to keep it!</p><p></p><p> I ended up doing a lot of work on it before handing it over to my daughter ( Bell & Carlson stock, Model 70 bottom metal, 2-7 Leupold scope) substantially increasing the investment! The original price was perhaps the best money I've ever spent on a firearm! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 2940200, member: 75451"] Congrats…..nice find at a good price these days! It looks like it might be a shooter! I had similar, though with a much less expensive rifle, experience! Back in '87, a friend of mine that used to make many of the gun shows with several tables of guns fixed me up with an older Winchester Model 670 in 30-06…..which was to be my daughter's rifle! She was in the 7th grade and in need of her first centerfire hunting rifle. Oh horror a 30-06…….Kids must have been a bit tougher back then! 😉 The 670 was a poor man's Model 70…..Birch stock, no "bolt jeweling", no hinged floor plate, and not much for bluing! The stock had a very small crack in the grip area (which he opened a bit and put some epoxyin the crack), and looked like it had spent much of it's life bouncing around in the bed of a pick-up truck! 🙂 He sold it to me for $100, telling me if I wasn't happy with it, he'd give me my money back. I put a cheap Bushnell scope on it, loaded up 2 different loads that I had developed for friends, and took it out for a "trial by fire"! From the bench, my pickup truck tailgate wasn't "inspiring"…..really bad! The next 5 shot group could be covered with a quarter! I had a $100 shooter…..I was pretty darn happy and decided to keep it! I ended up doing a lot of work on it before handing it over to my daughter ( Bell & Carlson stock, Model 70 bottom metal, 2-7 Leupold scope) substantially increasing the investment! The original price was perhaps the best money I've ever spent on a firearm! memtb [/QUOTE]
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