Show your Custom Pre-64 and CRF Model 70’s

[Mark A Ouellette]

Everyone, let’s post our custom Pre-64 and late model Controlled Round Feed (CFR) Winchester Model 70’s. Please tell us a little about each rifle you post.

Below is a Pre-64 M70 by Jim Kobe in 375 H&H. I’ve used it to bag a lioness, cape buffalo, giraffe, zebra, baboon, and monkeys (at 170 yards!). I also shot a bison with it. Everyones need to own at least one 375 H&H. Even better if that rifle is a Model 70 ! She sports a Leopold VX-5HD 2-10X scope.

 

[Mark A Ouellette]

Next is a custom "working rifle", a Pre-64 M70 reworked to .223 Remington. I bought the barreled action as a project and had the pre-war cloverleaf action fit to a McMillian M40 fiberglass stock. I was going to have it restocked with lovely English Walnut but her configuration in the M40 stock has grown on me!

I keep this rifle at the ready to send safety violators, i.e. hole diggers in my shooting berm, to their maker. She is sporting a vintage Denver-made Redfield 6-18X scope. I shoot 50 grain Hornady V-Max which make mush out of those grass grizzly's insides.

Many truckloads of topsoil on a field of clay loam soil has become a wookchuck magnet!

 

[Mark A Ouellette]

This is a SCI show rifle on a Winchester Pre-64 type (CRF) Model 70 Dangerous Game Rifle by David Christman chambered in .416 Rem. It will shoot under 1 MOA all day. David Christman is a famous Bench Rest builder and a longtime member if the prestigious American Custom Gun Guild (ACGG). David's work is so good, that Shilen Barrels uses him for their barrel chambering.

• 24" Shilen Barrel with 1/4" rib stippled on top and express sights with sight hood by NECG
• Straight grain with mild figure walnut stock, with 22LPI checkering, ebony tip, shadow line cheek rest
• Blackburn bottom metal, steel barrel band sling loop and steel grip cap professionally rust blued.
• Straight Rust blued bolt handle as of English rifles with jeweled bolt body and 3 position safety
• Finely tuned trigger that breaks 2.75lbs with no creep
• Gun weighs 9lbs. and LOP is 13 7/8"

Not For Sale! I bought this off this forum pre-Covid. It has yet to see Africa but I need to change that!

These are not good photos but I think you will get the idea...

 

[Puddle]

Never been much of a taking pictures guy, so all I can do is describe it.

A custom .30-06 built 24 years ago based on a complete M70 CRF donor action. Assembled with the usual suspects of the time:
Lilja 24" stainless, fluted, with standard twist, and with Serengeti chamber.
Bansner composit stock with Decelerator pad.
Talley steel bases and rings, Leupold glass.
3 lb trigger
All the metal except the glass treated in Tef-Cote OD green, which has held up very well.

Factory or handloads, they all group good enough to drop big game. Most of my handloads group very, very well out to any distance you care to shoot.

 

[poco]

You rich guys get a the beautiful girls
Here is my original condition 1957 M70

 

[Altitude sickness]

My wife’s 1950s in .375 H&H it sports a VX6 firedot

 

[Altitude sickness]

My .416 Taylor 21” barrel and shoots very well. Handles like a dream

 

[Jon Glajchen]

Pre-64 375 H&H custom, Wiebe drop box bottom metal, 23 inch barrel and a nice piece of English Walnut. Sports a Khales Helia C 2.5-10x 50 in Recknagel mounts. My go to rifle when “anything” is on the menu. I have harvested game from Impala to Eland with it.