Pre-64 pricing...

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

Are the prices coming back down to earth?

I have a featherweight 30-06 with a small crack behind the tang. A friend was interested, but thought with the stock crack it was not worth $600. Good bore, and overall condition.

What say ye...?

[onceabull]

Well advertised,probably sells @ 600 for the barreled action alone... Onceabull

[runfiverun]

i gave 350.00 for an 0-6 version last fall,might have paid more but wasn't enamored with the 4x scope.
the shop owner offered 300.00
it made a nice christmas present for a new hunter.

[Love Life]

Didn't winchester go back to the CRF of pre-64 models? Wouldn't that cause the price to fall since that is what made them so desireable?

[Cactus Farmer]

The older ones are better made IMHO. Slicker to operate,or well used.......still slicker.

[backroad]

The old one's are made better. But the new ones good easily surpass them if craftmanship mattered.

[runfiverun]

most guy's look and see they can get a new rifle for 300 bucks and still shoot a deer with it.
it's more accurate than an old one and it's new so why bother.

[Hardcast416taylor]

I can still remember when Winchester upped the prices from $119.95 to $129.95 for the Model 70`s. In `66 I bought a standard grade model 70 in `06 for $129.95. The hardware store owner threw in a roll up gun case and a box of 180 gr. silvertips for free. Dang, I miss the old days!Robert

[Love Life]

I just reckoned that going back to the CRF would have caused prices to fall on the pre-64 models since new ones were more readily available with the more desirable feature.

[BruceB]

That $130 in '66 would translate to $465 in today's dollars. It would still be a good buy at that that price.

My wife's Browning "Safari" (FN Mauser) cost $265 in 1969, which sounds about right in comparison to the M70.

In the early '90s, we bought her a new M70 "Super Grade" .338. This is BY FAR the nicest M70 I have EVER seen, of any vintage. It is virtually flawless, in wood, quality of workmanship, trigger action, SLICK action...and it shoots like a dream.

I have never even taken it out of the stock, and for me, that is almost unheard-of. I still like the pre-64s, but this later Super Grade sure does compare exceedingly well.