1956 Winchester Model 70 Standard model .30-'06

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Hooray for P&D in Edmonton! I just saw this rifle on the way home from work and it came home with me. Mint bore and chamber, steel buttplate, bluing and stock a bit used but clean and no rust for $575, with a Weaver 3-9 steel scope and tip-off mounts. How did I do?

I need to find a front sight hood, and I am selling the scope and mounts to help pay for the rifle. How do I go about listing these items for sale on this forum?

Range time tomorrow!
 
With the early variable scopes, increasing the power made the cross hairs appear to get larger. Is your Weaver like that?
 
H4831, the crosshairs don't get bigger as the magnification increases. The scope is a 3X9 Challenger, by Weaver. Do you have any info on these scopes, or on the Weaver tip-off mounts?
 
that's a very good deal...and I WAS going to stop in at P&D today.....:rolleyes:

I had a Weaver 4X Challenger many years back..it was somewhat of a cheaply made scope...had it on a 30-06 and the front lense retainer ring came loose and eventually the cross hair broke......
 
PRE 64 Mod 70

Sounds like a good buy to me, of course condition is the determining factor.
H4831,,, old scopes with first plane focal recticle, I guess they are out there, but today you pay EXTRA for that option.
Enjoy the PRE 64.
 
albertacowboy said:
H4831, the crosshairs don't get bigger as the magnification increases. The scope is a 3X9 Challenger, by Weaver. Do you have any info on these scopes, or on the Weaver tip-off mounts?
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On the early variables the reticule didn't get larger as the power was increased, it just appeared to get larger. I had a Redfield 2x to 7x, purchased new in early 1960s and it was that way. That is, the crosshaid covered about an inch at 100 yards. At 2x it looked pretty fine, looked about right at 3 or 4x, but at 7x it looked huge, even though it still just covered an inch at 100 yards.
I am not familiar with the Weaver Challenger.
I am familiar with the Weaver tip-off mounts. In the 1950s, or so, hunters were very leary about those new fangled scope sights. They could think of all sorts of reasons why the scope would fail, just when they wanted to shoot their dream animal. Thus, they wanted a quick way to revert to their iron sights, so Weaver came up with the tip-off, where you just grabbed the scope and turned it out of the way. I was never fond of them, it somehow just looked a bit of an insecure way to mount the scope.
However, the other way to see your iron sights was the see through mount. While I didn't like the tip-off, I hated the see through.
 
IIRC, the Weaver Challenger series were an economy model scope that was made to compete with the less expensive Japanese scopes that were coming out in the 1970s or early 1980s just before the old weaver USA company folded. I think some of the Challenger scopes may have been made in Japan to Weaver's specs. A usable decent quality scope nonetheless.
 
If it's a challenger model they were made in the 70's cheap ,cheap ,cheap throw it away because no one will buy it that was the beginning of the low end junk optics. Oh by the way I have an original front hood $300 that will make the rifle value correct.
 
I looked at that gun last week, i think it was a very good deal! . I had already spent enough so i have to keep walking... enjoy and let us know how she shoots
 
mod 70 3006

hey a-cowboy i just got one too model 70 3006,from bud haynes auction,even older 1947. anyhow do you reload ? cause if you do let me know how your load development is going and ill inform you what i know. im getting a red field 3x9 accurange scope from a dude in manitoba , should be here tomorrow. so i havent shot it yet, got nosler b -tips 125 gr rigged up to a max of 55.8 gr of varget, it might be a while , got to go back to work 4 a 3 week hitch again soon.
 
I don't reload, but my rifle is very nice to shoot. I Have put a few 150-grain and about 30 180-grain bullets through it to set up the open sight and it proved very accurate. Soon I'll try out the old Challenger scope.
 
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