Sold Winchester Model 70 Featherweight .280 Rem + Timney

[fightthenoise]

I'm selling some rifles with a lot of functional overlap to fund a custom build. I'm not sure the round count on this one, but it's well under 100. I pretty much zeroed it, and took it on one hunt and shot a doe with it. I always thought it was too damn pretty to take out of the safe, so I mostly just looked at it. Winchester no longer chambers the Featherweight in .280 Rem. There are some minor usage marks, but I would say the wood and bluing are both 95%. Really great condition for a ~30 year old rifle. I tried to get high resolution photos of the whole gun, but let me know if you'd like to see anything else. Comes with 1" low Talley lightweights, Timney trigger, and the Beartooth stock cover.

$700 firm shipped and insured to your FFL. If you plan to reload and need die/components, let me know and we can work that in too. For full price offers from local buyers (CO) I'll throw in a pound of RL26.

 

[Trees91]

That’s a beauty glws

 

[Newtosavage]

Sweet rifle in an even sweeter caliber. Good luck!

 

[fightthenoise]

Thanks fellas! It’s a beautiful rifle. Hopefully it goes to somebody that’ll make some memories with it.

 

[Gasman]

Um, sorry to break the "bad" news to you, but that appears to be a 5-digit New Haven gun. I think it's worth a lot more than $700 shipped...

 

[Rusty85]

Not to correct you but this rifle was made in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. In 2007 FN bought Winchester and moved production to South Carolina then later in 2012 or 2013?, they moved Model 70 production to Portugal.

 

[Gasman]

If I didn't already have one, I'd buy it!

 

[fightthenoise]

Not to correct you but this rifle was made in South New Haven, Connecticut in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. In 2007 FN bought Winchester and moved production to South Carolina then later on 2012 or 2013?, they moved Model 70 production to Portugal.

holy crap you’re right! I’ll edit the post. I have trouble keeping the Model 70 timeline straight and obviously can’t read the text on my own gun...

Um, sorry to break the "bad" news to you, but that appears to be a 5-digit New Haven gun. I think it's worth a lot more than $700 shipped...

I’m heartbroken, tell me more. I obviously am confused about this thing lol

 

[bpotter]

How many digits in the serial number after the G? Any chance the original trigger was saved?

 

[fightthenoise]

How many digits in the serial number after the G? Any chance the original trigger was saved?

5 digits after the G. The original trigger is likely long gone unfortunately

 

[theddguide]

Dang, I never wanted a .280 so badly till now!

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[fightthenoise]

I had a PM about the weight so I thought I should include that here too. 7 lbs 0.5 oz with rings and stock cover

 

[Gasman]

I’m heartbroken, tell me more. I obviously am confused about this thing lol

This is a fairly rare Featherweight, being chambered in 280 Rem. It seems like Winchester wanted to avoid chambering their rifles for rounds that had "Rem" in the name, so the 280 and 25-05 aren't real common. Your rifle is a 5-digit, which are a little nicer than the rifles that followed.

ETA: And a Timney trigger is over $100 all by itself.

 

[realunlucky]

I'm going to regret not buying this right now. Sweet rifle for a great deal

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[fightthenoise]

This is a fairly rare Featherweight, being chambered in 280 Rem. It seems like Winchester wanted to avoid chambering their rifles for rounds that had "Rem" in the name, so the 280 and 25-05 aren't real common. Your rifle is a 5-digit, which are a little nicer than the rifles that followed.

ETA: And a Timney trigger is over $100 all by itself.

Thanks man I appreciate that. I poked around in the web and checked gunbroker and it seems I might be underpriced by a few hundred, but I’d feel kinda chicken sh!t raising the price at this point. So I’m content knowing somebody will get a sweet rifle at a sweet price.

 

[dukxdog]

I'll take this. It's a cool rifle.

 

[Montana Slim]

I don't feel it's chickenshit to get what your gun is worth, even if you didn't realize at the initial posting... don't send a gun like that down the road without feeling good about it, and what you're getting for it.
That one could be hard to replace... It is a beautiful rifle, in a very desirable configuration (at least to me).

 

[HuntnPack]

If it’s still available, I’ll take it.

 

[Trial153]

I have the same in 7x57, sweet gun

 

[Lonald]

I don't feel it's chickenshit to get what your gun is worth, even if you didn't realize at the initial posting... don't send a gun like that down the road without feeling good about it, and what you're getting for it.
That one could be hard to replace... It is a beautiful rifle, in a very desirable configuration (at least to me).

Just reprice it and go from there you didn’t make any promises