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Pre '64 Model 70?

rayl380rayl380 Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
edited October 2001 in Ask the Experts
What is the advantage with Pre '64 Model 70s?Should I avoid buying a Model 70 manufactured after 1964?
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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pre-'64 Model 70s are highly regarded because of the materials and workmanship that went into them, but especially for the design features that were, for a number of years, absent in Model 70s produced after 1964. Among the more desirable features is the large claw-type extractor which provides controlled feeding from the magazine and positive extraction, as opposed to the push-feed of the later models. Today Winchester is again, by popular demand, producing rifles very similar to the pre-64 model; and mechanically there is little difference between current production and pre-64 models. Actually, both the pre-64 type and the later push-feed models are available. The push-feed was improved from its original version and has also gathered its share of followers. But during the years when the pre-64 style was not being produced the values began to increase with scarcity and demand and today they have become expensive, even though current production is substantially similar.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Der,I have an XTR from 1977,this little rifle is outstanding!What can you tell me about M-70s from that year?.218
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