All Winchester Model 54 rifles are pre-64 because they stopped making them in 1936.
Dear sellers, you don't need to say that they're pre-64 guns.
Something I've found interesting in the pre-64 Winchester Model 70 market is how few 30-06 guns I've seen for sale.
Bunches and bunches of .270 Win guns though.
This is the inverse of the Model 54, where .30-06 guns are the majority.
I noticed because I have a .30-06 Model 54 and I window-shop for a .270 to go with it.
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Curious what makes pre-64 different on those rifles? I'm familiar with the Model 94 where they added an additional safety device, and am super glad I inherited my grandfather's old Mod 94, but...
ReplyDeleteThe big, huge, change was from the Mauser style controlled feed to a more Remington 700 style push feed.
DeleteRemington was eating Winchester's lunch on bolt-gun sales because the 700 could be made less expensively and Winchester needed to make the Model 70 more affordable.
I think that if they'd introduced the post-64 Model 70 as a different model number it would have flown with the hunters better.
That is why the 1200 sold so well. Somebody at Winchester had the decency not to cheapen the name of the Model 12 shotgun.
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