Everything about this 270 Winchester rifle pro-actively preserves and protects accuracy in the field while maintaining its elegance for the wall. This custom-edition tribute to writer and outdoorsman Jack O'Connor features an engraved bighorn sheep on the floorplate and oak tree scroll work on the pistol grip cap, a checkered metal buttplate and Jack O'Connor's signature in Nickel on the trigger guard. The polished, blued-steel receiver is paired with a matching 22" hammer-forged, free-floating barrel with featherweight contouring capped with a target crown. The stock is made from beautiful, AAA High-Grade French walnut with an ebony forearm tip and a graceful shadowline cheekpiece. Based on O'Connor's personal preferences, this Model 70 features a Pre-64 controlled round feed and controlled ejection for precise chamber placement and more positive extraction. Winchester's Model 70 M.O.A. Trigger System virtually eliminates take up, creep and over travel, so where you aim is where you shoot. The smooth-engaging three-position safety is convenient to operate with the thumb of the firing hand and easily identifies the safety status of the rifle. This limited-availability, special Shot Show buy also has a Custom owner's manual, brochure and hang tag for display. For storage, this Jack O'Connor Custom Tribute Model 70 includes a voucher, redeemable through the Jack O'Connor Center, for a free custom-embroidered case. (Please note, the case will NOT ship with the rifle.)
Specifications :
- Action: Bolt
- Caliber: 270 Winchester
- Barrel Length: 22"
- Capacity: 4+1
- Trigger: M.O.A. Trigger System
- Safety: Three Position
- Length: 42.75"
- Weight: 7.5 lbs
- Stock: AAA High Grade French Walnut
- Finish: Blue
The information below comes from our Gun Caliber Dictionary and is for
general reference only. It does not describe the specifications of this
particular item.
The 270 Winchester was introduced in 1925 in the Winchester Model 54 bolt-action, forerunner to the Model 70. Based on the 30-06 case necked down, it was the first production cartridge to use a .277-inch bullet. Why this bullet diameter was chosen is not clear. The intent, however, was to create a cartridge that shot flatter than the 30-06 and produced less recoil. This effort was so successful that the 270 Winchester remains the world's most popular 270 cartridge...and since 1925 only three other commercial cartridges have used this bullet diameter. With a 130-grain bullet at 3060 feet per second and a 150-grain bullet at 2950 the 270 is powerful and flat shooting. It is adequate for game up to elk, ideal for virtually all American deer hunting, and, as it's long-time champion, gunwriter Jack O'Connor, so often wrote, it is a marvelous choice for mountain hunting. It is a standard chambering for almost all rifle makers, and choices in factory loads run into the many dozens.
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Craig Boddington
