Cabela's Winchester?

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Anyone see one of those Cabela's 50th anniversary Winchester 70 Super grade/Featherweights at any of their stores in Canada? I handled one in the Olympia,WA store last year, nice rifle. Even just the stock for one would be nice. Anyone have one and able to share comments on it?
Wife did ask what I want for Christmas afterall.
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A year ago, when they were advertised on the Cabelas USA site but not on the Cabelas CA site ..
I contacted both Cabelas CA and US, and asked if either could sell & ship me one. Their answer: NO
Why?

  • Cabelas US will not ship to Canada.
  • Cabelas CA does not stock the same inventory as the US stores, and will not honour US sales.
To my surprise, the staff at Cabelas CA were not even aware of any specials that their US chains have ongoing ..
not aware, and not even interested.
 
You mean like this one in .270 Win? They blew those out last year for 1000 bucks:p I doubt if you would find one now. Comments; mine is nicely put together in the Supergrade stock and mirror finished. There's a gold inlay on the floorplate that says Cabela's 50th and "one of 500." Whether that makes it shoot any better is doubtful. I can't shake the impression that it would be better proportioned with a 24" barrel than a 22" but it wouldn't really be a Featherweight with a barrel any other length. Strangely, I'm not really sure its a featherweight without a Schnabel fore-end either, but since Cabellas got the Featherweight iron in the Supergrade furniture I guess it is what it is. Mine will easily hold MOA out to 500 yards with minimal load development. I bedded it and did the trigger, seemed like the least I could do.




I've got this other Featherweight, also in .270 with a grade 2 wood upgrade. It shoots about the same, and if anything has nicer wood.

 
The .375 Alaskan. I've got a 3.5-10 VX3 on it now.



The .458 in its natural habitat; the Zambezi Delta. This was is the glorious calm between a buffalo charge and when a monsoon hit us. For a few minutes everything was right in the world.



The .458 after its un-holy transformation into one of the only 10 shot .458 Lott M70s in captivity. I did a lot of soul searching before deciding to make it into a culling machine. Still don't know if it was the right decision.

 
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