The rifle’s owner periodically loaned the rifle to his nephew, Mark Worthington, and eventually gave it to him in 1977. He had a Fecker 10x riflescope fitted to it, but the fact that its serial number was a simple “1” was not something that the gentleman thought anything of. As purchased the rifle was fitted with a Lyman aperture sight and it was to be his hunting rifle for the next 40 years. It was back in 1937 when a man walked into a hardware store in Durango, Colorado and bought himself a Winchester Model 70 rifle in 30-06, although back then the barrel was marked “30GOV’T06”. You can find our article on the history of the Winchester Model 70 if you click here.Īnd you can find a far more detailed history in Roger Rule’s “ The Rifleman’s Rifle” if you click here. In the Model 70 Winchester had got it right and the rifle’s reputation continued to gain over the decades up until 1964 after which Winchester did another “upgrade” in 1965 that promptly destroyed the good reputation of the Model 70 until the reintroduction of the Controlled Round Feed classic Model 70 in recent years. The Model 70 was, back then, considered an upgrade of Winchester’s first bolt action offering, the Model 54, but it established for itself an enviable reputation in the hands of sportsmen all over the world. The Winchester Model 70 has long been called “The Rifleman’s Rifle” since they hit the gun racks in gun dealers and hardware stores back in 1937.
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