Michael Hirschi
Active Member
What a great story and beautiful buck. My father bought a Winchester 264 mag in 1965. My nephew has it and is taking good care of it. He killed this spike bull in Utah this year. Love it
That's easily fixed and he is already on the right track with floating the barrel. All of my pre64s ( that I actually hunt with )are pillar bedded and free floated and the POI never changes.Great rifle, it's a keeper. love the timber but hate the changing point of impact.
Thanks for jogging my memory re the pillars. I usually go to the trouble of molding a full carbon stock totally solid under the action area. Free floating the barrel and bedding the receiver then keeping the timber stock if ever I want to sell it. Carbon pillars won't compress, are more temperature stable and so easy to make. Drill a hole under the receiver half way into the stock and a larger hole up the underside. Fill the two connecting holes with carbon fiber and epoxy resin, wait until it cures and rebed. I have been shooting benchrest since 1966 but love my field shooting best.That's easily fixed and he is already on the right track with floating the barrel. All of my pre64s ( that I actually hunt with )are pillar bedded and free floated and the POI never changes.
Great story. I've shot a pre 64 .270 my wife gave me for my birthday 30 years ago. Grew up shooting model 70' and 12's.I'll try to make a long story short. My favorite person on the planet was my uncle Larry. He worked for the Texas Parks and Wildlife and took me to do all kinds of cool stuff as a kid. The only gun he ever hunted with was a Winchester Pre-64 model 70 .264 win mag featherweight that my grandad bought him for Christmas in 1962 (he was my blood aunt's husband and my Grandad skipped buying all his own kids presents that year to buy this) He had terrible heart genetics and passed 15 years ago then my aunt passed from cancer. My cousin ended up with his gun and her husband and son googled what it was and saw it was worth $$ so I figured I'd never have a chance to own it. A few years ago I mentioned to her I'd love to take it and clean it up good, build some ammo for it and shoot a deer, then I'd give it back with some ammo for them to shoot it. 8 months ago she brought it to me and I told her I'd get it back to her after deer season and she said, "oh no, I want you to have it." Could've knocked me over with a feather. I cleaned it up good, adjusted the trigger, floated the barrel, and put a correct looking for the gun swaro on it and shot it for the firsts time today. Got in the deer stand and 30 minutes later got this deer. I've shot much bigger but none mean as much as this one. The leather sling broke on way back to the truck and I was disappointed. His middle name was Alpheus and that is mine too, so I'm going to get a custom sling made with Alpheus on it. I know this is just stuff and I don't have to have it to have the memories, but I'm sure glad to have it.
I have my uncles Model 70 fwt in 308 with a 2.2-9 Swaro . It's my favorite rifle.I'll try to make a long story short. My favorite person on the planet was my uncle Larry. He worked for the Texas Parks and Wildlife and took me to do all kinds of cool stuff as a kid. The only gun he ever hunted with was a Winchester Pre-64 model 70 .264 win mag featherweight that my grandad bought him for Christmas in 1962 (he was my blood aunt's husband and my Grandad skipped buying all his own kids presents that year to buy this) He had terrible heart genetics and passed 15 years ago then my aunt passed from cancer. My cousin ended up with his gun and her husband and son googled what it was and saw it was worth $$ so I figured I'd never have a chance to own it. A few years ago I mentioned to her I'd love to take it and clean it up good, build some ammo for it and shoot a deer, then I'd give it back with some ammo for them to shoot it. 8 months ago she brought it to me and I told her I'd get it back to her after deer season and she said, "oh no, I want you to have it." Could've knocked me over with a feather. I cleaned it up good, adjusted the trigger, floated the barrel, and put a correct looking for the gun swaro on it and shot it for the firsts time today. Got in the deer stand and 30 minutes later got this deer. I've shot much bigger but none mean as much as this one. The leather sling broke on way back to the truck and I was disappointed. His middle name was Alpheus and that is mine too, so I'm going to get a custom sling made with Alpheus on it. I know this is just stuff and I don't have to have it to have the memories, but I'm sure glad to have it.