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These two historic Winchester Model 70 rifles bearing serial numbers “1” and “2” are now being offered for sale by Sportsman’s Legacy. The Number “2” rifle is a standard Model 70 of the period, also chambered in 30-06, and fitted with the factory standard open sights, but has also been drilled and tapped for riflescope mounts. Subsequently the Number “2” rifle was offered for sale and purchased by the owner of rifle Number “1”, so he then had both in his possession. Pelton dated March 6th, 1980 telling her that the receiver of rifle number “1” was made on January 20th, 1936 but complete rifles were not made until 1937.Īfter this communication the rifle was sold to Roger Rule who featured it in his book along with a picture of the factory letter. She received a reply from the Director, Marketing, Mr.
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Lied wrote to Winchester to enquire about the history of a Model 70 in her possession which carried the serial number “2”. It was in November 1979 that Mrs Ethel M. Mark did some research, which included acquiring Roger Rule’s book “The Rifleman’s Rifle”, and then contacted a group of bona-fide Model 70 collectors and found that they were willing to make him some high five figure offers for it: it was then he realized he was in possession of a rather desirable “barn find” of a Winchester Model 70: sort of like a guy who finds an antique Ferrari in his barn. Mark was not ready to sell it however and decided to do some research. The pawnshop dealer made him a four figure offer on the spot for it. One day he was heading to a local pawnshop to get another rifle bore sighted and so he took the Model 70 along to see what reaction the pawnshop guy would have to it.
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Mark continued to hunt with it for another decade but he noticed the “1” stamped as the serial number and thought he might get that checked out sometime.
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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.
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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.