Posted October 30, 2019 6:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

This exceedingly rare SIG SHR 970 in the Guns.com Vault of Certified Used guns is chambered in .270 Rem and is available to fill a hole in any discerning collector’s safe.
RARE SIG SHR 970 BOLT-ACTION RIFLE FROM $569.99
Only made for a few years, the SHR 970 bolt-action rifle offered a marriage of Old World craftsmanship and modern innovation for a handful of lucky hunters.
The SHR (Swiss Hunting Rifle) series rifles were introduced in the U.S. in 1998 and imported to the country by SIG Arms with the tag line, “There are only two ways you’ll miss your target…not buying one or shooting with both eyes closed.” Pitched with one-gun functionality, the forward-looking rifle could be swapped out across seven calibers through an interchangeable barrel system– long before today’s modular platforms like the Daniel Defense Delta 5.
The SHR was offered in .25-06 Rem, .270 Rem, .280 Rem, .30-06, .308 Win, .300 Win Mag and 7mm Rem Mag, with extra barrels available. Standard calibers used a 22-inch hammer-forged barrel which produced a 41.9-inch rifle while the barrels and resulting overall length on the magnums went two inches longer.
SIG said these rifles carried a 1:10″ twist Ilaflon-coated barrel and receiver, making them “virtually

Source: Guns.com

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