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January 20, 2023
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I think so too.
The 358 and 284 chamberings had one thing in common; they both were as popular as gonorrhea.
The. 358 chambering was not offered in the Model 88 in the last couple of years of Pre-64 production, nor at all during the Post-63 period until end of production in 1973. So, regardless of serial number, a 358 Model 88 in an oakleaf stock would not have happened in normal production.
I think there are two possibilities, neither provable but one more likely than the other. It’s either a parts gun or had a replacement stock. Winchester never threw anything away and I would suppose it sold off leftover 358 barrels after 1962 The conversion of an 88 from 308 to 358 is only a matter of screwing on a barrel. I believe the same magazine functioned for all three of the 243/308/358 line.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Cool rifles in interesting chamberings. From a marketing standpoint your target market is rather small, the increased price of offering them as a “set” would likely make it smaller. I’d certainly offer the others to any interested prospective buyer but unless you’re in a time crunch I’d sell them the same way our dad bought them, one at a time.
Mike
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