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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: fly-by on February 25, 2016, 09:16:21 PM

Title: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: fly-by on February 25, 2016, 09:16:21 PM: So last year I picked up a Winchester Model 70 Classic Laminate in .300 WSM online because it was threaded and the reserve was low. Took delivery but never fired it. Decided I didn't want to hang a heavy suppressor off the thin walls of a .308 barrel threaded 1/2-28. Listed it here, no interest, so sold it on GunBroker. Few months later the buyer calls and tells me it has a mismatched bolt with .473 face (WSM is .540). Seems honest and I can't dispute since I never shot it. Guy who sold it to me is long gone.

I plan to give buyer back the $500.00 or take it back and make a project of it. What should I do???

1) Refund him and move on with my life
2) Rebarrel it
3) Part it out
4) Try to find a bolt
Title: Re: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: high country on February 25, 2016, 09:21:15 PM: I'd be interested in buying it.
Title: Re: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: follow maggie on February 26, 2016, 05:49:14 PM: I think I'd buy it back from him & turn it into a project of some sort
Title: Re: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: fly-by on February 26, 2016, 06:06:03 PM: Thanks for your replies. Didn't mean this as a classified, but sold to high county. Too many projects!
Title: Re: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: savagehunter on February 26, 2016, 11:30:16 PM: Maybe he needed a bolt and is selling you on a line of bs?
Title: Re: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: high country on February 27, 2016, 09:59:17 PM: I must say that it takes a stand up guy to square up on a rifle well after the sale. Most guys get 3 days.
Title: Re: Winchester Model 70 with mismatched bolt
Post by: fly-by on February 27, 2016, 10:08:15 PM: The buyer had no idea that I never shot it, so it would be a bold claim.