Back When Sears Sold Commercial Mauser Rifles

By Van Harl

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- You could not even hunt with a centerfire rifle in the state of Illinois back in the 1970s when I first got into the retail / wholesale firearms business. You were allowed to hunt squirrels and rabbits with a 22 rimfire, but everything else, which really meant whitetail deer had to be hunted with a shotgun.

When you work with, provide customer service too, and in-between hang out with other firearms enthusiasts, you are always talking guns. However, back in those days, the topic of conversation was not about black rifles and high capacity handguns, it was about building the best bolt action, centerfire hunting rifle you could. That “magical” custom rifle you would spend hard earned money to build, for that elk hunt “someday” out west.

Winchester had stopped making their Model 70 bolt action rifle in the “old quality way” and had changed the design of the Model 70s made after 1964. Before that happening it was not uncommon for a future western hunter to buy a Winchester Model 70 just for the action. They would disassemble the rifle only to get to that action. …Read the Rest

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