Rifles are a type of long gun that lack the concealability typical of a handgun or the versatility of most shotguns. Despite ...

The Winchester Model 70 has been upheld as the gold standard for hunting rifles for nearly 90 years, earning the nickname "The Rifleman's Rifle." (NRApubs via YouTube) To those outside of hunting and ...

Alaska adopted the Winchester Model 70 rifle, with officials noting the gun helped tame the state’s wilderness from 1930 to statehood in 1959. The Colt Single Action Army revolver, ...

The Model 70 Extreme TrueTimber VSX MB is an example of how Winchester is making “the Rifleman’s Rifle” more appealing to today’s shooters. These rifles feature a steel receiver and fluted steel ...

Of all the various rifles that have been manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms throughout the firm's long history, the most well-known is the Model 70 family of bolt-action centerfire rifles ...

Final Thoughts on the Winchester Model 70 Featherweight. There are always things that a true Model 70 snob can get wrapped around the axle about, but overall, Winchester is still turning out an ...

Winchester made a name for itself back in the 1860s with its successful repeating lever-action rifles, and went on to create the equally iconic Model 70 bolt-action sporting rifle in 1936. It’s a ...

Mom started off with a Winchester Model 37, Dad’s deer rifle was a Model 100, and they eventually had matching Model 12s. But my first centerfire rifle was a Remington 700 chambered in .270 Win.

Though it has been chambered in countless bolt-action rifles, the .270 belongs in a Winchester, specifically a Winchester Model 70 Sporter. 7mm Remington Magnum – Remington Model 700.

Mauser’s 98 was a military rifle first and foremost, and while the comparisons are inevitable, and though the Model 70 would see limited military service, it was designed as a hunting rifle.

Although the “Rifleman’s Rifle” is unquestionably one of the greatest hunting rifles of all time, the Winchester Model 70's service in the U.S. military has been meager, and even then, its ...

Today, Jack O’Connor, sheep hunting, and the Model 70 Winchester in .270 are linked in our collective subconscious. It was not always that way. When he started the quest for his first desert sheep, ...