ORIGINAL: eldeguello
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
I got a pre64 featherlight for 300 dollars at a estate sale. Eat your heart out suckers.
"CAN YOU TOP THIS??" As a matter of fact, ..............
I once bought a pre-64 Model 70 Super Grade in .375 H&H from a Captain stationed at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) Alaska for $125.00. It was in NRA excellent condition, and had a Lyman Alaskan scope mounted on it in a Jaeger QD sidemount.The guy had fired it five times, and decided he liked his .243 better!! He had obtained the rifle intrade for a Win. M12 shotgun at a roadhouse somewhere in Canada as he was driving upthe Alcan highway. The rifle was made in 1949.
At the same time, the Fort Wainwright PX had discontinued selling .375 H&H rifles, and put their entire remaining stock of .375 H&H ammo on sale
for $1.00/box. I got 16 boxes of the stuff (Win. 300-grain Silvertip ammo) for $16.00. This happened in 1965. I still have a couple of boxes of that ammo left! My son in CO has the rifle......
I bought a nice Winchester Model 88 / 308 3 years ago from a person that I knew that was desperate for money for $250
The serial number was 363x
I kept it for a year and thought that I was pretty smart by selling it for $500.00
That person bought it and sold it last year for $1000.00
Now I am standing here with mud on my face and wish that I never sold it in the first place because Winchester went out of buisness and I was at a auction last summer and saw several post 64' Winchester Model 88's that was not even close to what I had go for $500 - $600
The only thing I didn't get was the box it came in from the factory. Thats how good a shape the gun was in.