Winchester 75
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If the gun is under $400 , go buy it, as ussually back in the day when fathers set up these small bore rifles for there children, they placed good quality Redfield, and Lyman target sights on them, wich means in todays prices the sight alone are a minumum $100 to $200 depending on type, so the gun is only $200-300 for a great quality all steel and walnut rifle? The 75's and 69's are pretty much one of the better starter guns you could buy at the time, they ussually sell between $250 and $450, lik I said depending on what type of target sights have been added. Original gun with factory sights will start at $400 in good condition, good luck, you will never regret buying one of these vintage target quality guns!DZ!
$400-$700 is the range I have seen them go for with the target model fetching a bit more than the sport. Check the bore and the crown well for damage as these older rifles often get some damage from poor cleaning techniques. They have some heft to them and can last a lifetime if treated well. My 1951 Model 75 shoots as well as many of the Brno's and is a reliable accurate rifle.
Nupes is right these little winchesters shoot right along side the old BRNO's ,the triggers are not quite as nice as most BRNO's but I have felt a few with slicked up triggers ,just as good as any commercial target triggers of today! Another one to watch out for is the Remington model 521-T, made for youths and excellent triggers and peeps right from the factory.DZ!
I have one of these on my bucket list, but I have noticed the prices on these and other classic .22s have been shooting up for the last while. The model 75 I believe was Winchesters next step down from the model 52. If the gun was in good shape and less than $400 I would buy it but it's hard to tell without seeing it.
Those of us who were shooting Model 75s some 50-60 years ago, never cleaned the barrel. So don't worry about the barrel being worn out from cleaning!
We had lots of small bore competition at that time, shooting at least twice a week. I never knew anyone who cleaned their 22 barrels.
Three or four years ago I heard about 22 barrels leading up, so thought I better check my Model 69 Winchester that I purchased used in the mid 1960s and used it considerably. I can't ever remember cleaning the barrel, so I ran a patch through it and it looked like a mirror.
I do know that in recent years some 22 rifles have leaded up the barrels. I don't know what ammunition does it, or how many types will lead, but I bought a 22 about three years ago and found out I could hardly see through the barrel for accumulated lead!
The old amunition we used would never lead the barrel. This was universal, because even the rifle manufacturers reccommended that one did not clean the barrels.
arcticrover
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Hi I have one built in 1940 with original Winchester 8x scope.It shoots very well out to 100yards barrel is beautiful trigger very nice.Over all very nice old target rifle.
Bill
Bill
I have a Model 69, which is the economy equivalent of the 75. It was set up with target sights, no doubt for the CIL sponsored Dominian Marksman program. It is a well built, very accurate rifle. Dandy shooter. A 75 is one grade higher.
This was nice for your first post.
Congratulationns on a first post and for having great example of a good rifle.
I didn't know Winchester made a scope then, or likely it was added later. Good rifles of that era were usually drilled and tapped for an aperature sight, but I fear it must have been gun smith drilled and tapped to accomadate the scope.
I once had a Model 52, Winchester's top rim fire rifle, of about that age, which had no less than three different sets of holes drilled and tapped, for different types of scope bases. I got tired looking at all the holes and eventually sold the riffle for a pretty good price, to someone else.
Could you post pictures of yours?
How did you guess it, used for the CIL DM program?
That's exactly what my 69 was used for, as well as the many other competitions of the day. Here is what I did to get teh aperature close to my eye.
Crude, maybe, but solid and the best aperatures one could hope to get on a rimfire.
