426crown said
Wood doesn't match metal finish.............Bill
  

Agreed, metal looks new. Wood has refreshed finish over dozens of significant handling marks. No wear visible on the metal. Very nice job on the metal, IMHO.

Mike

There is a limit to what most hunters - not gun nuts like us - can shoot accurately. Ive heard a hundred times from friends who shoot the 7mm Rem Magnum that it "feels like a 30/06."  They don't say that about the big thirties. 

When your Dad bought the BDL, I'd just started college and didn't start shooting centerfire rifles until 1966, my second year of law school. At a local range, a classmate urged me to try his new 700 ADL, a 7mm Rem.  I shot it a couple of times and was amazed at how mild the recoil seemed. 

My hunting opportunities have always been limited by time, money, or both and the used Browning High Power 7mm Rem I hunted our Central Texas deer with for a season was a bit much. Later, on West Texas leases when the deer were much heavier amd distances longer, it would have been useful. 

I couldn't afford either in 1966 but I remember handling a 700 BDL and a 1966 Model 70 at Oshman's and wondering what New Haven had been smoking. The 700 BDL was a whole lot of gun for the money. I just didnt quite have it at the time. 

Zebulon said
Actually, it was a 275 Holland that led to the watershed 7mm Remington Magnum. While Warren Page was a major proponent of 7mm magnum cartridges, particularly the 7mm Mashburn Short Magnum,  he was not the progenitor.
The Wyoming outfitter Les Bowman had been given a 275 Holland rifle by Jack O'Connor.  Bowman guided for Elk and his clients used the rifle to great success. Fred Huntington, chief of RCBS, was a friend and client of Bowman and learned from Bowman how impressed he was with the round, although ammunition and .288 bullets were a problem.
Huntington went home to Lewiston, Idaho and used the new 338 Winchester Magnum case to create a 7mm wildcat cartridge, necking it down to .284 to employ commonly available bullets. RCBS made up a set of dies to go with the rifle and a quantity of ammunition and components, and sent the package down to Wyoming. Bowman and his clients tested the rifle and cartridge extensively on game of all sizes and Bowman became very enthusiastic.
Remington design engineers Wayne Leek and Mike Walker were also clients of Bowman and came to hunt and visit. After range testing the rifle and cartridge and reviewing Bowman's game logs, they got Bowman to come to Ilion and help persuade upper management to adopt the cartridge. Remington made a couple of minor changes to ease production and applied to SAAMI for standardization of the 7mm Remington Magnum. Just in time to be included in the list of available calibers for which the new Remington 700 rifle would be first offered, in 1962. It would quickly become a top selling chambering in the new rifle. 
It was the Remington Model 700 and its 7mm Remington Magnum cartridge that brought the Pre64 Model 70 temple to the ground in 1964. I was there and saw it. 
  

Bill,

My father was one of the very early 7MM Magnum fans, and he bought a brand new Model 700 BDL in late 1962... I inherited it in May of 1999.  His pet load for it was 64-grains of IMR 4350 under a 160-grain Speer Grand Slam bullet.  It really gets your attention when the Federal 215 primer ignites all of that powder!

Bert

The Wyoming outfitter Les Bowman had been given a 275 Holland rifle by Jack O'Connor.  Bowman guided for Elk and his clients used the rifle to great success. Fred Huntington, chief of RCBS, was a friend and client of Bowman and learned from Bowman how impressed he was with the round, although ammunition and .288 bullets were a problem.

Huntington went home to Lewiston, Idaho and used the new 338 Winchester Magnum case to create a 7mm wildcat cartridge, necking it down to .284 to employ commonly available bullets. RCBS made up a set of dies to go with the rifle and a quantity of ammunition and components, and sent the package down to Wyoming. Bowman and his clients tested the rifle and cartridge extensively on game of all sizes and Bowman became very enthusiastic.

Remington design engineers Wayne Leek and Mike Walker were also clients of Bowman and came to hunt and visit. After range testing the rifle and cartridge and reviewing Bowman's game logs, they got Bowman to come to Ilion and help persuade upper management to adopt the cartridge. Remington made a couple of minor changes to ease production and applied to SAAMI for standardization of the 7mm Remington Magnum. Just in time to be included in the list of available calibers for which the new Remington 700 rifle would be first offered, in 1962. It would quickly become a top selling chambering in the new rifle. 

It was the Remington Model 700 and its 7mm Remington Magnum cartridge that brought the Pre64 Model 70 temple to the ground in 1964. I was there and saw it. 

426crown said
Wood doesn't match metal finish.............Bill
  

I agree, also weak markings on tangs and some pitting on the receiver despite nice case colouring.  PASS…

426crown said
Refinished? Bill
  

That I wasn’t sure about.  Some barrel markings are weak.

mrcvs said
Tom,
Did you get this one?
https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/winchester-rifles-model-1886/winchester-1886-45-90-wcf-outstanding-antique-.cfm?gun_id=103832667#gallery-103832667-lg-21
  

How could he not have?

Did you get this one?

https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/winchester-rifles-model-1886/winchester-1886-45-90-wcf-outstanding-antique-.cfm?gun_id=103832667#gallery-103832667-lg-21

As Bo echoes my sentiments about the accuracy of the 300 H&H, it is perhaps redundant of me to mention that the 1935 Wimbledon Cup at Camp Perry Ohio was won by Ben Comfort shooting a Rem****** Model 30-S Express rifle that had been re-barreled to 300 H&H.  That may have been one of the reasons Winchester chose to offer their brand new Model 70 rifle in that chambering in 1936.

Down in my man cave I have exactly ONE Western factory round of .275 H&H ---- that's right, not 375, but 275 H&H Magnum.  As I look at that single cartridge, it seems to me that wider acceptance of that cartridge would have rendered all the other (later) 7mm Magnums superfluous.  

BRP

At best, Sahib's bush shorts would never be the same. At worst, what's left of him would go home in a small rubber bag. 

I don't think Holland's reason for shaping the case was anything other than enabling the long strands of Cordite to be loaded on a production line.  But, if I were going Bengal Tiger stalking on foot in a jungle, I think a Super 30 or its big brother 375 Belted Magnum Rimless would be comforting. If I couldn't have a Colt Monitor....

BRP