Winchester model 70 date of manufacture

elkdropping

May 29, 2011 16:37

I have a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in caliber .358 Winchester, serial number 342940. A couple references state date of manufacture to be 1954. Other references say Winchester introduced this caliber in 1955. Can this be explained perhaps by receiver manufacture was actually 1954, and rifle completed and offered for sale in 1955? Or a 1955 model with production actually started in '54? Or??? Also, approximate number produced in this caliber?

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  elkdropping

  May 29, 2011 16:37

  I have a Winchester 270 70 featherweight with the serial number:
  
  364927
  
  Any idea when it was made? Thank you for your help!

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  rufe-snow

  May 29, 2011 17:07

  1955, according to the BB.

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  Old-Colts

  May 29, 2011 17:20

  Roger Rule's The Rifleman's Rifle suggests 1956 (serial number range 361026-393595).

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  elkdropping

  May 29, 2011 18:39

  Thanks!

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