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I have a Winchester Model 70 Classic Sporter 270 Weatherby with a SN of G164079, and trying to find something on the year of manufacture. Can anyone help with this?
April 15, 2005
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RUSS said
I have a Winchester Model 70 Classic Sporter 270 Weatherby with a SN of G164079, and trying to find something on the year of manufacture. Can anyone help with this?
We (WACA) do not have the date of manufacture information for the later U.S. Repeating Arms Company manufactured Model 70 rifles. The Classic series was introduced in the year 1992, and was discontinued in early 2006.
Bert
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July 21, 2010
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RUSS said
I have a Winchester Model 70 Classic Sporter 270 Weatherby with a SN of G164079, and trying to find something on the year of manufacture. Can anyone help with this?
From another outdoorsy forum:
Model 70 Classics 5- and 6-Digit SNs
1992, G10000 – G40000
1993, G40000 – G75000
1994, G75000 – G120000
1995, G120000 – G155000
1996, G155000 – G200000
1997, G200000 – G250000
1998, G250000 – G290000
1999, G290000 – G320000
HTH,
3 Dub
November 5, 2014
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Hi Russ-
As Bert said, WACA/CFM does not have SNA dates on USRAC made M70 “Classics”. If FN/BACO has them they don’t seem to be admitting it. The best approximation is what 3Dub posted above, which I think is observational information put together by some of the contributors to the 24hr Campfire Forum.
The New Haven built Pre-64 M70s and Post-63 (both Olin and USRAC) Push Feed M70s are numbered in the same continuous sequence from s/n 1 to about s/n 2,500,000 (except for a gap where they skipped from s/n 581471 to 700000 between 1963 and 1964). The “G” prefix was added around s/n 925,000 to comply with GCA 68. So when the CRF “Classic” was introduced circa 1992, they started a new sequence with “G1”. Technically, the “G” makes it a “unique” serial number (as opposed to s/n 1), so they had “G1” through about “G925000” available to use on the M70 Classics.
So the best guess is that s/n G164079 was made in New Haven in 1996 by USRAC.
Best,
Lou
WACA 9519; Studying Pre-64 Model 70 Winchesters
