Pre-war m70 ???

[bow4828]

Just aqired a pre-64 mod 70.It has the pre-war tang and ser#50XXX.Marked cal 30 GOV'T 06.Just trying to get an idea of date of manufacture,etc.
Thanks

 

[Jim Watson]

Blue Book says 1945.
They did make a few M70s during WW II.
I shot my 47xxx (1942) at 600 and 1000 yards in an F-class match yesterday. Any points I dropped that the stainless and plastic guns didn't were purely due to my lack of experience reading the wind.

 

[bow4828]

Thanks!! thought is was somewhere around there.Just have to find a correct rear sight sometime.Don't look real perdy,but mechaniclly Excellent.Hope to shoot it this week some time.
Bob

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Fion MacCumhail, my pre-64 Model 70 in .30 Govt 06 is 25XXX and was made in 1939.

I know the original owner took this rifle to Africa, and it was mounted first with a Redfield aperture sight. Later, a Lyman Alaskan (3/4" tube) was mounted over that, and it still wears the Redfield, snuggled up under the ocular bell of the scope.

The varnish on the stock is missing where hands have rubbed it off, and the finish shows the effects of 75 years of hard hunting. I call that "honorable scars."