Guns International #: 102983369
Seller's Inventory #: CM24-BHD

Category - Rifles - American Bolt Action - Winchester Rifles - Model 70 Pre-64

Category
Rifles - American Bolt Action
Winchester Rifles - Model 70 Pre-64

1982 Vintage Custom Pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Rifle in 7mm Mag. * Spectacular Wood, Octagon Barrel, & Fleur De Lis Checkering! *

Description:
This is truly a spectacular, all custom-built bolt-action rifle chambered in the potent 7mm Remington Magnum cartridge, built in 1982-83 on a Pre-1964 Winchester Model 70 action and stocked with a SPECTACULAR piece of French Walnut.  This very classy and handsome rifle is in superb condition, and has been fired and carried afield only a handful of times since it was built.  Using a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 receiver and bolt that were like-new, this custom rifle was first fit with a unique custom match-grade barrel that starts round at the chamber area but transitions to an octagon barrel just 2.25" inches from the end of the receiver and then very slowly tapers in size to the muzzle, at which point it measures 5/8ths" of an inch from flat to flat at the crown.  It was then fit with a custom adjustable target / all-purpose single-stage trigger, a beautiful and classy triggerguard and magazine housing was made for it, and then the whole assembly was fit/inlaid into a TRULY SPECTACULAR Monte Carlo style French Walnut stock.  Prior ti being mated with the rest of the rifle, this beautiful stock was hand-shaped from a piece of super deluxe French Walnut.  The resulting work of woodcraft art was then checkered with master-level hand-cut checkering in a Fleur De Lis style pattern and a super-fine checkering both at the wrist, and on the forearm where it wraps around the entire forearm.  The stock was then with a flush-mounted sling swivel base and a classy-looking and elegantly-shaped pistol grip cap, both of which were made of steel and rust-blued to match the rifle perfectly.  The forend of the stock was expertly fit with a solid-black ebony tip that truly matches the shape of the forearm perfectly and exactly, thus resulting in a seam between the French Walnut and Ebony that is FLAWLESS!!  You can run your fingernail back and forth across the joint all-along the entire circumference of the joint and you cannot feel it whatsoever at ANY point. Finally, the butt of this beautiful stock was fit with a 1/2" inch-thick black recoil pad from Pachmayr, also with a flawless joint between it and the wood.  The addition of this thin half-inch thick pad gave the rifle a length of pull measuring 13.5" inches total, with a LOP measurement of 13" inches to the end of the wood. This was the specific goal for the length of pull, because despite the man who ordered it usually preferring a LOP of 14" or 14.25" inches, the rifle was built specifically for hunting in Alaska, and/or cold environments where he would be wearing multiple layers of clothing to stay warm.  If he should need to increase the length of pull to 14 or 14.25" inches, it would easy to swap out the 1/2" inch pad to a 1" inch pad, or add a 1/2" inch spacer to the pad already on it, or add a 1" inch pad and one 1/4" inch black spacer between the wood and 1" pad.  Once the whole rifle was assembled and fit to satisfaction, it was disassembled and re-assembled again several more time to check that everything would go together the same way every time, and once verified, it was totally disassembled all of the way down to the smallest parts.  All of the metal parts except the bolt (explained later) were then gathered together, expertly polished to a near-spotless mirror-like shine, then stripped/cleaned down to the bare metal now free from any oils or contaminants, and then all of these parts were finished with a beautiful high-gloss rust-blue finish of the highest quality and best uniformity possible.  All of the metal parts were rust-blued to the same exact color, tint, tone, and luster, to match each other as perfectly as-physically possible.  Not easy to do when many of the parts have different chemical compositions as well the different levels of heat-treating, or no heat-treatment at all, which are all factors that have a very considerable impact on the resulting color achieved once rust-blued.  As noted above, the rifle's bolt contained parts that went thru a different process than the rest of the metal parts.  The body of the bolt was NOT blued, but does have some rust blued parts on it.  Once the finishing pricess was started, the bolt was pulled to the side on it's own.  The bolt was then stripped / disassembled down completely, until it was just the bolt body, the bolt handle, the firing pin, and a number of other small parts. Most of these small parts and the bolt handle were separated and sent to the pile of parts to be blued, while the bolt's body/housing, the extractor, the firing pin, and firing pin spring were separated to be left in-the-white (bare un-coated metal).  The bolt's round body was taken out of the parts group and meticulously machine-jeweled or "turned" by hand, and then hand-polished to a mirror-bright level of shine before the bolt was completely re-assembled.  The bolt handle, the firing pin shroud, and the safety lever, which were now rust-blued a glossy dark blue, were installed along with the rest of the bolt parts, and the result was a complete bolt assembly for the rifle that is gorgeous.  The contrast between the blued parts and the bare white steel is beautiful, and the remarkably uniform jeweling on the bolt's body is really a work of art.  Once installed into the rifle, the bolt assembly looks right at home and adds a great deal of interest and class to the rifle as a whole.  I'll say it this way, if someone randomly handed you this rifle as-is BUT with NO BOLT IN IT, with you never having seen it before prior to this person handing it to you, and then you were asked to imagine and describe what the perfect or ideal bolt would look like for this rifle only, I would bet dollars to donuts that you would get this exact bolt assembly described to you in detail, at least 95% of the time or more.  This is assuming that the people who are handed the rifle, know what a rifle bolt even is, what these bolts normally look like, and finally, that they have at least a teensy-tiny bit of class!  (I know, I know,.... that is assuming too much these days!) 

Price: $3,195.00

Rifle Caliber: 7mm Remington Magnum
Manufacturer: Custom
Model: Pre-64 Winchester Action
Condition: Minty
Metal Condition: Minty
Wood Condition: Minty
Bore Condition: FLAT MINT
Barrel Type: 1/3 Round to 2/3 Octagon
Action: Bolt-Action Repeating Rifle
Triggers: Custom Adjustable Trigger
Stock: Monte Carlo and Fleur-De-Lis Checkered
Finish: Gloss Blue
Sights: None / Drilled and Tapped
Manufacture Date: Rifle built in 1982-
Extras: Redfield Bases