Sounds like he's found his do all cartridge! great pic btw.My dad still shoots his Pre '64 .264 Win Mag with a 26" barrel....
It's killed a pile of CA blacktails, and a few Elk too.
He just turned 83... He's got a Wyoming Antelope, California Mule deer and Alberta Mule Deer tag this Fall....The Model 70 will be there for them all....
Those are beautiful pictures!
I bought it yesterday. Looking forward to seeing what it can do!
Shot my 1st deer with a Winchester M70 Sporter in .264 Win Mag. Still to this day my favorite rifle of all time and use it when I don't use my 7mm Rem Mag. I would buy one in a heart beat especially if you get a good price on it.
I had that coming
Id just pop for a custom 6.5 PRC. Call Travis Stevens at TS Customs. Call it a retirement present. That way you get everything exactly like you want it down to the stock color and cerecoating and the added bonus of excellent accuracy nothing worse than trying to figure out why your rifle cant hit a pie plate at 50 yards. Life is way to short and frustrating to live with a junk riflePre '64? How accurate? From the web:
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December 3, 2012 - 9:37 am
After 40+ years of fooling with Pre-64 M70s I’ve learned a few things about performance of these rifles. Your problems with 264 Fwts are not unusual. This style/caliber is the only one in my experience that pretty consistently performs poorly. At the end of production, I think many M70s left the factyory without being test fired, something that ALWAYS occurred previously. Prior to 1963 they were all test fired and if they did not perform they did not leave the factory. I have seen other 264 Fwts with oversize bores or loose spots near the muzzle that destroyed accuracy.
Sadly, the last 30,000-40,000 M70s made had quality control problems not seen in earlier years. Thery also had inferior quality wood, machine checkering, mis-aligned proof marks, aluminum floorplates/trigger guards on Standard rifles, etc. They are no where near the quality of the earlier rifles.
