Winchester 70 .300 H+H for 2014?

While at Cabela's Arizona store last week I handled both the 7X57 and ,257 Cabela's Feather/Super-Grade rifle's. Would likely take a big outfit like Cabela's to convince Winchester and then they won't send any to their stores up here anyway...Rrrr.
Off to cut the grass.
Geoff Victoria,BC.
 
Well, Winchester just put the 300H&H out in the 1885, along with the 375, a couple of yrs ago. There are still 375's around, the 300's went PDQ. The 300 is still around to be had, in a #1.
 
I own a 1954 made model 70 .300 H+H, but would love a new production one to bash around in the bush. Wish they'd slim down the Super-Grade a bit, but I'd take whatever they offer.
Geoff
 
sharp shooter said:
If that cartridge was offered a few years ago, I would have bought one in an FN supergrade instead of my 30-06. Now listen to this, I bought a BSS of a guy a bunch of years back, before I was privy to the 300 h&H and pre 64 model 70's. He had a 1954 Model 70 Supergrade in 300 H&H unfired and wanted 2200 for it, it was from an estate sale.. I had it in my freaking hands. A few months later, after a lot of research, I called him but it had been sold a few days earlier for 1800. Will never make that mistake again, but I'll likely never have the chance again........I have lost sleep over that deal.
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Ouch what a great classic rifle and caliber and unfired too. I bought some 300 H&H ammo years ago when a store was selling off their gun supplies. Expected to own one by now, the 300WM/WSM is more practical for sure, but a 300H&H, just sounds so refined and chambers like no other bottleneck. For those old enough to remember a TV series that ran in the early 1970s call Elephant Boy, filmed I believe in Sri Lanka, but depicting post Colonial India???, a local British estate owner, a supposed relic from the past, took a rifle from his cabinet one day and speaking to the environmentally minded main actors said regarding a suspected rogue Tiger in the area,..."this is how my father would have dealt with rogue tigers around here,.........(opening and closing bolt) a .300 Holand'n'Holland Magnum!" Maybe it was 375 lol, but it left an impression on me of the venerable gun makers of London during the heydays of Empire and so much different game on so many diffeernt continents.
 
1899 said:
I've thought of this already too....it would be easy to make a nice set, wouldn't it?
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1899,

thinking a lot of it ...

hard to explain when you already have .366 wagner and a 458 win mag but that may be a cool idea to have those nice set and calibers ... very classy.

need to find a nice wood worker to give them the african accent ....
 
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