Good afternoon all,
I have a few questions regarding a rifle that’s been in the family for a while, and recently just got my hands on again. It’s a 1945 Winchester Model 70 Standard Grade (I believe, nothing indicates otherwise) chambered in .30-06 Springfield. I‘ve spent the last day or two deep cleaning the hell out of the rifle, but it’s not in operational condition right now. It’s missing the trigger guard, floor plate, action screws, mag follower and spring. So basically right now I’ve got a barreled action w bolt, and a stock.
I see a bunch of “pre64-this and pre64-that” everywhere, so I’m looking for more straight answers (maybe even links to parts if you guys really feel like going extra-helpful on this lol). What floor plate should I be looking to get? One piece or two? How do I tell what my stock is inletted for? Which magazine box should I be looking at? Does anyone know of a synthetic/composite stock (or preferably a chassis) that this rifle would fit into with the collar on the barrel?
I’m not a collector of historical rifles or anything, and do not necessarily care about restoring this rifle back to 1945 condition with the correct time-period parts or anything and I’ll give you a little backstory as to why. After my great-grandad was finished in WW2 (he was a cartographer, go check out the 1939 book “Handbook of the War” written by John C. DeWilde and David H. Popper, my great-grandad Richard Ely Falconer drew the maps for the book.), he was afraid the Nazi’s were going to come after him. So, when he returned to California, he bought this rifle and packed up the family and moved them to the middle of Death Valley. After my great-grandad passed, my grandad moved back to San Jose and brought the rifle with him. My granddad had a lot of skills from wide ranges, and he tried to get into gunsmithing starting with this gun, but never stuck with it and lost the missing parts. So, growing up my dad never shot this gun and neither did I. It’s got some cool history, but nothing really sentimental about it. I plan on drill and tapping the holes on the front bridge from the 6-46 to 8-40, and doing the same on the rear bridge for a modern picatinny scope mount base, along with getting the action and barrel re-blued. I’d like to make this into a modernized hunting/“sniper” rifle. Any helps would be appreciated, thanks guys.
-J
I have a few questions regarding a rifle that’s been in the family for a while, and recently just got my hands on again. It’s a 1945 Winchester Model 70 Standard Grade (I believe, nothing indicates otherwise) chambered in .30-06 Springfield. I‘ve spent the last day or two deep cleaning the hell out of the rifle, but it’s not in operational condition right now. It’s missing the trigger guard, floor plate, action screws, mag follower and spring. So basically right now I’ve got a barreled action w bolt, and a stock.
I see a bunch of “pre64-this and pre64-that” everywhere, so I’m looking for more straight answers (maybe even links to parts if you guys really feel like going extra-helpful on this lol). What floor plate should I be looking to get? One piece or two? How do I tell what my stock is inletted for? Which magazine box should I be looking at? Does anyone know of a synthetic/composite stock (or preferably a chassis) that this rifle would fit into with the collar on the barrel?
I’m not a collector of historical rifles or anything, and do not necessarily care about restoring this rifle back to 1945 condition with the correct time-period parts or anything and I’ll give you a little backstory as to why. After my great-grandad was finished in WW2 (he was a cartographer, go check out the 1939 book “Handbook of the War” written by John C. DeWilde and David H. Popper, my great-grandad Richard Ely Falconer drew the maps for the book.), he was afraid the Nazi’s were going to come after him. So, when he returned to California, he bought this rifle and packed up the family and moved them to the middle of Death Valley. After my great-grandad passed, my grandad moved back to San Jose and brought the rifle with him. My granddad had a lot of skills from wide ranges, and he tried to get into gunsmithing starting with this gun, but never stuck with it and lost the missing parts. So, growing up my dad never shot this gun and neither did I. It’s got some cool history, but nothing really sentimental about it. I plan on drill and tapping the holes on the front bridge from the 6-46 to 8-40, and doing the same on the rear bridge for a modern picatinny scope mount base, along with getting the action and barrel re-blued. I’d like to make this into a modernized hunting/“sniper” rifle. Any helps would be appreciated, thanks guys.
-J
