Win model 70 Prison Rifle

Good looking piece of history! What caliber is it?

I have opinion. I I think it's a cool piece, and very good looking rifle.

Don't know what CCI stands for, but your guess is as good as any.

Short barrel and Safari sights? I call that *different* too.

Cool rifle. Did it come with that scope?


Todd.

Parkerized finish? What a cool rifle! Love it.

I could use that front sight hood

Generally speaking, when a fella stops to ask you if he can buy the headlight bezels on the old truck in front of your house - you can bet that sure as baby rabbits; headlight bezels for trucks like the one in front of your house are thin on the ground.

Todd.

Park finish and Monte Carlo stock stand out to me. And the bent bolt handle.

Them redfield Tele-view scopes are sweet. Ive got a 3x9 on a 10/22.

"The man with no eyes" approves.

Pretty cool little rifle. That is exactly the type of rifle I am attracted to, it has a certain lure to it. As to the number it's like a rack number or plant account number for keeping track of prison or correctional institution property. My brother's Colt SP1 rifle has a little round brass tag with a number on it. They (whoever they is) super glued it to the stock. Again, really nice short and handy bolt gun. Enjoy it.

Ron

I like it. I particularly like the express sights ... although to use them you'd have to pull the scope and base. If the sights are high enough, I might be tempted to replace the base and rings with a Leupold QR set so the scope would be optional. But that's just me.

Greatfullded said:

Ty for everyones opinion on this and what they see as different... like I said I bought this as a prison rifle.. but that's all I knew abt it except the CCI tags and etched CCI # on the receiver, the other things abt it as a lot of you said is different.. Legionnaire sez the express sights is different... I looked at a lot of the model 70s and like none of them had sites but straight line barrel no sites.

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Yeah, iron sights aren't super common anymore on modern rifles.

That's a fine looking g rifle, doesn't look like its been shot much either.

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hannstv said:

"The man with no eyes" approves.

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I was having much the same thought.

Made for those times when a particular problem has to be eliminated . It's not like they made a run of them, just took a letter head to Winchester or was local gunsmith made. I'm betting it was a San Quentin order.

CCI is the prison in Tehachapi, which is in the low mountains S/E of Bakersfield.

There was, back in the day, plenty of room for an escapee to roam, and lots of black bears in the area, so the State ordering such a rifle for either purpose at CCI makes perfect sense.

Stay safe.

A couple of prison rifle tidbits:

For a very, very short time in the 1930s, my dad served as a guard at a Nebraska reformatory farm. He was stationed in a tower with two weapons: a 1903 Springfield and a 1897 Winchester shotgun. He never told me whether the 97 was the special riot model or something more standard.

In the 1980s my wife's sister was married to a California State prison guard, who worked at various prisons including Folsom and Corcoran. He mentioned the guards at the boundary posts were armed with Ruger Mini-14s. One time he described how the guards could often tell when a fight was about to happen by the movements of prisoners around the yard. Occasionally they would notice one of the likely participants looking toward the guard tower beforehand as if to say "aren't you going to break this up?"

Good luck contacting Winchester. They've been sold 2 or 3 times since that rifle was made.

Some random thoughts. Starting in 1964, the receivers and bolt handles were parkerized. It looks like the barrel is also, which wasn't normal. Also, M70's in that era came with open sights as standard equipment.

The Redfields with the rectangular ocular and objective were called "Widefields". I'd say they started that model in the late 60's early 70's.