I picked up a somewhat neglected pre'64 Model 70 sometime back. It is a 1946 vintage gun with a great looking bore and some interesting custom features.
Wood and finish look original and I left it that way - just cleaned the wood and checkering. Sling swivels are interesting - ones I've never seen before. And it has a small compass inletted into buttstock. Compass still works, and appears reasonable accurate despite the proximity of all the steel on the rifle.
The barrel had been shortened to "carbine" length and a post'64 front sight added - looks nice and professionally done. The metal condition was rough in places with rust/pitting and blue missing on parts of barrel, buttplate and other areas of metal. I cleaned it up/polished and blended into the existing blue with the rustblue process.
I left the vintage Bushnell scope on it - still works (with the pop-up post reticle and hinged scope mounts) with accuracy pretty good for a rifle of that vintage.
Overall a neat old rifle.
For info, I've added a couple of photos of the rust blue, but kind of hard to get good photos. Barrel forward of rear sight was completely refinished down to the white and rust blued. To the rear of the sight is original blue.
Wood and finish look original and I left it that way - just cleaned the wood and checkering. Sling swivels are interesting - ones I've never seen before. And it has a small compass inletted into buttstock. Compass still works, and appears reasonable accurate despite the proximity of all the steel on the rifle.
The barrel had been shortened to "carbine" length and a post'64 front sight added - looks nice and professionally done. The metal condition was rough in places with rust/pitting and blue missing on parts of barrel, buttplate and other areas of metal. I cleaned it up/polished and blended into the existing blue with the rustblue process.
I left the vintage Bushnell scope on it - still works (with the pop-up post reticle and hinged scope mounts) with accuracy pretty good for a rifle of that vintage.
Overall a neat old rifle.
For info, I've added a couple of photos of the rust blue, but kind of hard to get good photos. Barrel forward of rear sight was completely refinished down to the white and rust blued. To the rear of the sight is original blue.