Winchester Mod 70 75th Anniversary 30-06. NEW DEVELOPMENTS..PICS ARE UP

Lucky bastage, especially if winchester actually moves to Portugal. I don't understand how shipping the parts to Portugal, assembling them, then shipping them back is going to speed things up. IMO they are full of :bigHug::bigHug::bigHug::bigHug:e.
 
Cleftwynd said:
Lucky bastage, especially if winchester actually moves to Portugal. I don't understand how shipping the parts to Portugal, assembling them, then shipping them back is going to speed things up. IMO they are full of :bigHug::bigHug::bigHug::bigHug:e.
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Ever heard the word UNIONS. Chances are they can get twice as many assembled in half the time for half the money.
 
Buy it! Christmas is a good enough excuse to treat yourself. No one else can take as good a care of you as your own self, and spoiling ones self once in awhile is good for the soul. Besides, well made rifles are worth spending the extra dough on... I think of good quality items like good booze: once you try it, you never go back!
c-fbmi said:
I have been looking at one of these babies at my local gun shop, trying to decide if I should gift myself one this Xmas. This is one gorgeous rifle if you like shiny things and excellent figured black walnut and for you CRF boys it's got that too. The workmanship is very good, the inletting is still machine done and could be better for a $2K rifle, but overall a fine firearm. I've also just checked my inventory in my gun room and it would seem that at this moment I don't have a bolt action 30-06, but I do have dies and about 400 brass for one........HHHMMMMMM
Now here's my question.............do I buy one now for $2000 or do I wait for a couple years and buy one from the EE for $2500 after it has some experience? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:



I know, I know, sarcasm is the lowest form of humor!!!......couldn't resist.
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Cleftwynd said:
Good point, instead of hiring people in North America, just ship the jobs elsewhere! Grrrrr
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You may not like it but with the unions and a bunch of new burdens being placed on US employers by Obamacare, this is the only way a lot of companies are going to be able to keep their doors open. It's just survival economics.
 
c-fbmi said:
Ever heard the word UNIONS. Chances are they can get twice as many assembled in half the time for half the money.
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In 2006 the New Haven, Conn plant was closed. If my recollection is correct, I read somewhere that one of the stipulations of the union contract there was that there would be no production for a year. FN took over production in South Carolina and I did not think that was Union plant.

I suspect the labour is just cheaper in Portugal.

I'm just irritated that I don't have the cash around to pick one of these up before they move production to Portugal.
 
Well anyway, I am glad to hear you have this beautiful specimen, I have no doubt you will enjoy it thouroughly.

Have a great time over the holidays with it Doug!
 
Just googled this;
14 Nov 2012 ... In Spain, 22 percent of the workforce are union members and in Portugal about
one fourth of the 5.5 million strong workforce is unionized.

All told, the U.S. union membership rate was 11.8 percent of the total workforce in 2011, down from 11.9 percent a year earlier.
 
Ya but you can bet the union rate for factory workers in Portugal ain't 1/3 of what it is in US.

For those of you interested the 75th Anniv '06 will NOT be going on the baboon cull. I have 3-243s, a 22-284, a 6mm-284 and a 22-250, should be all I need for baboons. With any luck they'll all need new barrels when I get home and it'll be worth every penny, I hate baboons, not as much as elephants, but I still hate them none the less.

Now if I could get in on an elephant cull I'd love that, living with your heart in your throat for 3 weeks on a pure adenaline non-stop rush.............470 with barrels so hot you can't touch them for 21 days straight, the smell of gunpowder and blood and elephant dung. The red dust so thick you can't breathe........BOOM, BOOM.....break the double PaPING and two empties soar over the shoulder, plunk, plunk...two fresh 3 1/2" .470s drop in the two gaping holes..snap as the action closes and a cow looms out of the dust at 10 mtrs to your right..BOOM..she collapses to a frontal brain....then another to her left ..BOOM..another frontal brain...PaPING..plunk, plunk...snap..a young bull is darting across to the right...BOOM...all four legs buckle at once and he does the big nose slide to a side brain shot at 15 mtrs...........OH SH!T,sorry I got carried away.

A guy can dream can't he.........

Anyway no the new '06 ain't going baboon hunting.
 
c-fbmi,
The Baboon cull would no doubt be fun....How does it work, to get in on something like this and what does it cost???
 
hawk-i said:
c-fbmi,
The Baboon cull would no doubt be fun....How does it work, to get in on something like this and what does it cost???
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Don't have all the ins and outs yet but it would seem to be a no cost deal, meals, accomodations and vehicle supplied.........therefore if all goes as planned only cost is airfare to Jo'burg. How does one get in on something like this? Well it's all about who you know in SA, I let it be known to a couple of PH friends that I would be interested in a 2 week baboon killing swaree and one made some queries for me and there I have 1000 baboons on tap. They are super smart though so I suspect after 3 or 4 days of carefully planned attacks they will become very scarce, then one goes to Pretoria for a couple days of shopping and sightseeing, maybe another animal or 2 somewhere and then back and hammer the sh!t out of the baboons again. I expect this will be an ongoing deal every year, till they learn that the tree nurseries mean death then maybe they will abandon that food supply, but I doubt it.
 
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