Your best looking rifles?

[WYcoyote]

Very pretty is that mint?

The metal is very close to 100%, I cannot find a flaw.
Wood has razor sharp checkering and super finish, just a couple closet dings to keep it from absolute mint.
As you can see, no scope has ever been mounted.
Picked this up at a gun show in Billings MT. in the mid 90's for a price that seems darn cheap today.
I cannot bring myself to make a everyday hunter out of this, but to be sure it drew some blood in it's existence I sighted in the irons and used it gently to get my buffalo (bison).
After 64 years I don't want to be the one to mess it up, so it resides in a corner of the safe, and I love to pull it out from time to time and admire the craftmanship of gunmakers past.

 

[Rigbymauser]

Thanks WYcoyote.

Very very nice rifle. Never scopemounted too it becomes a Collectors item for sure.
If I were to collect guns again such rifle would become a sure candidate.

 

[SJB358]

Very pretty is that mint?

The metal is very close to 100%, I cannot find a flaw.
Wood has razor sharp checkering and super finish, just a couple closet dings to keep it from absolute mint.
As you can see, no scope has ever been mounted.
Picked this up at a gun show in Billings MT. in the mid 90's for a price that seems darn cheap today.
I cannot bring myself to make a everyday hunter out of this, but to be sure it drew some blood in it's existence I sighted in the irons and used it gently to get my buffalo (bison).
After 64 years I don't want to be the one to mess it up, so it resides in a corner of the safe, and I love to pull it out from time to time and admire the craftmanship of gunmakers past.

Yeah, again, that's a dream rifle for a Model 70 guy. I need to make a poster out of those pictures so I quit drooling on the screen!

 

[RiverRider]

There are some beautiful rifles here in this thread, but I hafta say that pre-64 is, in my eyes, the most desirable. There's just something very elegant and very honest about it, and maybe the fact I'm kind of a Model 70 fan to begin with has something to do with it. Different strokes for different folks, though.

I'll add, there's not one here I wouldn't love to stash in my safe!

 

[DrMike]

There are some beautiful rifles here in this thread... I'll add, there's not one here I wouldn't love to stash in my safe!

That's what comes from hanging out with classy people. :grin:

 

[nvbroncrider]

There are some beautiful rifles here in this thread, but I hafta say that pre-64 is, in my eyes, the most desirable. There's just something very elegant and very honest about it, and maybe the fact I'm kind of a Model 70 fan to begin with has something to do with it. Different strokes for different folks, though.

I'll add, there's not one here I wouldn't love to stash in my safe!

I guess your drinking the right kool aid then!

 

[Oldtrader3]

No doubt, most of we Nosler fiends are drinking the right Cool-Aid! I just still get indigestion when I think of the Pre 64 Winchester stash that I once had? Oh well!

 

[BK]

Maybe this one?

 

[DrMike]

Very handsome, Kurt. I do like the Featherweights. And that one has some wood with character.

 

[BK]

Thanks, Doc. I'm pretty partial to it.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Nice Kurt, What caliber in that beauty?

 

[FOTIS]

Great looking featherweight.

 

[BK]

Charlie,

.30 Govt.

 

[BK]

Thanks Fotis.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Kurt, everybody has to have one nice model .30-06 in their rifle collection, just because!

 

[BK]

Only one?

Actually, I think there's a good chance that if I were to pick up anothrt M70 '06 (and definitely if a nasty old .270) it would become something else... 6.5-06, .280, .338-06, .375-06, or (most likely) a Whelen.

 

[Ridgerunner665]

My much beloved M70...

 

[Guy Miner]

I'll try to get some outdoor, range & hunting photos of this .375 Model 70 soon... Not yet scoped, but, hopefully soon.

Guy

 

[DrMike]

Yes, indeed, a couple of fine looking rifles. RR, a Model 70 is always a work of art in my eyes. Guy, that is one handsome rifle.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Here is one of my Model 70's. This one happens to be, Oh!, a .270 Win!