Thread: Hand me down Model 70

My Father passed away late last year.

Fast forward to early March this year and my lad (12yrs) and I are on my Uncles farm helping to replace wheel bearings on his trailer.
Uncle goes over to his Ute and calls my boy over.
"You never met your grandfather, which is a real shame. But I would like you to have this, it was his and I think you can give it a good home. It needs a bit of work done, but I think you will appreciate it later on"
He then took a Winchester Model 70 .243 out of the back seat and handed it to my Boy.
"Would you like to clean this up and have it for yourself?"

You can imagine the reaction. His and mine both.
"One condition though lad, the first animal you shoot with it has to be with me"
A pretty cool moment.
Fast forward to today and we finally get a chance to pull the rifle out of the safe for a bit of TLC.

It had a fair bit of surface rust on the barrel and rings and it was in need of a decent clean up.
I had picked up a Birchwood Casey Bluing kit, so we read the instructions, read them again and made a start.

Scope and rings off, barrel and action removed from the stock.
A quick degrease and then on with the rust and blue remover.
A rinse off and out with the 600 grit and steel wool.
A number of hours spent sanding and polishing and the rings, bottom plate and barrel and action are starting to shine.
Mum gets home from work so time to pack it all away until tomorrow.

The rifle came with a 4x32 Nikko Stirling Gold Crown AirKing scope on it. My Uncle at age 73 reckons it is a shooter, He used it the morning prior to handing it my boy to drop a large boar at 125 yards. "not bad" he reckoned.
I will swap the scope for a 3-9x40 VX1 or a Nikon Monarch 2.5-10x42 once my boy has fulfilled his great uncles wish.











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