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Offline Rogmatt

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Winchester Model 70 date of Manufacture
« on: June 17, 2007, 02:31:22 PM »
Serial # is G22674**

7mm Rem. Mag - 26" barrel.
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Re: Winchester Model 70 date of Manufacture
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2007, 03:08:07 AM »
  By serial # it`s a ........post 1981.  Maybe somebody else can hit it on the head.
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Re: Winchester Model 70 date of Manufacture
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2007, 07:47:43 PM »
Rogmatt,
Your serial number indicates to me a very late model push feed Model 70, which means probably 1993, before the Classics came into general production in 1994.

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Re: Winchester Model 70 date of Manufacture
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2007, 03:27:06 AM »
While we're on the subject of manufacturing dates; serial # 2926XX. It's an 06, and my buddy says the model is : OF 1917. any help would be appreciated, thanks.  Chuck in PA
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Re: Winchester Model 70 date of Manufacture
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2007, 04:04:49 AM »
8ballchaz:  Prolly 1917.

That sounds like a Model 1917 Enfield Rifle, and the wartime (WW I ) production was pretty heavy.
Winchester, alone, made almost 466,000 of those from Aug 1917 to Nov 1918.
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