Winchester 70 Custom grade Maple.
Wittum,
I did a little more digging around in my book and found some of the rifles I thought came a little closer in description to what you have in your pictures. I had just gotten home from my last trip down to Chicago late last night and was pretty tired when I posted that. According to my pricing book, published in '07, therefore it covers prices through '06, Winchester does have rifles in the Classic category running from $1300-$1800. I know since then some of the more 'unusual' and higher grades of rifles have taken a steep incline in price. Then this past winter when the economy tried to pancake, prices came down considerably. But only to those who felt they needed to sell. For those who didn't need to sell, whether they had one for sale or not, the price didn't go down. Rather, it would weather this dip in the economy, and the price would go back to where it was before. Meaning, two grand for that rifle, if you really wanted it, wouldn't be that far out of line. But I would certainly negotiate as low a price as you could get considering this economy.
nononsense,
As noted when I went back into my pricing book this morning when I got up, and I found something closer to what he had. And you're right the Classic is different. I will agree with you as well that the word 'Custom' is overused. But it's a strong marketing word. So it gets overused and true 'customs' don't get the recognition they deserve until one truly looks at getting one done. The stock may look nice, but the black stained checkering definitely holds a lot of contrast in how people take it. I see it as a way to accentuate the checkering. It's an eye grabber. You may prefer the natural beauty of the maple stock. I think we agree on the beauty of the stock just differently in how to take the coloring of the checkering. With the spike in sales of synthetic camoflage stocks, I'm thinking though, that many gun buyers look at that rifle and think if it brings that much attention, every deer in the woods will see it. And, we both must be nuts for liking curly maple.
Personally though, I think had Winchester gone to a more traditional finish of the curly maple, the checkering would have been accented just fine all by itself. Meaning a darker, yellower oil finish instead of the bright 'kitchen table' look. Anyways, they did what they did and it's kind of a love it or leave it thing with a lot of folks.
I did a little more digging around in my book and found some of the rifles I thought came a little closer in description to what you have in your pictures. I had just gotten home from my last trip down to Chicago late last night and was pretty tired when I posted that. According to my pricing book, published in '07, therefore it covers prices through '06, Winchester does have rifles in the Classic category running from $1300-$1800. I know since then some of the more 'unusual' and higher grades of rifles have taken a steep incline in price. Then this past winter when the economy tried to pancake, prices came down considerably. But only to those who felt they needed to sell. For those who didn't need to sell, whether they had one for sale or not, the price didn't go down. Rather, it would weather this dip in the economy, and the price would go back to where it was before. Meaning, two grand for that rifle, if you really wanted it, wouldn't be that far out of line. But I would certainly negotiate as low a price as you could get considering this economy.
nononsense,
As noted when I went back into my pricing book this morning when I got up, and I found something closer to what he had. And you're right the Classic is different. I will agree with you as well that the word 'Custom' is overused. But it's a strong marketing word. So it gets overused and true 'customs' don't get the recognition they deserve until one truly looks at getting one done. The stock may look nice, but the black stained checkering definitely holds a lot of contrast in how people take it. I see it as a way to accentuate the checkering. It's an eye grabber. You may prefer the natural beauty of the maple stock. I think we agree on the beauty of the stock just differently in how to take the coloring of the checkering. With the spike in sales of synthetic camoflage stocks, I'm thinking though, that many gun buyers look at that rifle and think if it brings that much attention, every deer in the woods will see it. And, we both must be nuts for liking curly maple.
Personally though, I think had Winchester gone to a more traditional finish of the curly maple, the checkering would have been accented just fine all by itself. Meaning a darker, yellower oil finish instead of the bright 'kitchen table' look. Anyways, they did what they did and it's kind of a love it or leave it thing with a lot of folks.
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I am with you Sandwarrior, put a real model 70 finish on that maple and I would be on the phone bidding agains poor wittum. Still, I hope he bought it. 0
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