[READINABLUESTATE]

So next time you caress your cherished Winchester Model 70, just remember – there wouldn’t be a “Rifleman’s Rifle” without the Model 54.

Huh? Those were bolts, the “Rifleman had a lever.

[Vaquero]

If you read guys like Jack O’Connor or Ted Trueblood or Elmer Kieth back in the mid 20th century, you would know that the Model 70 was known as the ‘riflemans rifle’ by the gun scribes.

Of course The Rifleman, Lucas McCain, whose show took place supposedly in the 1880s carried an 1892 Winchester. Time travel.

[Quickgun]

Among gun enthusiasts, the model 70 was long referred to as the “Rifleman’s rifle”, Had nothing to do with the TV show by the name of “The Rifleman”,Where Chuck Connors used a 1892 Winchester lever gun.

[Big Red Badger]

I like the photo posted,
sometimes the clearest
Statement from this BLOG.

[1Old Pro]

So next time you caress your cherished Winchester Model 70, just remember – there wouldn’t be a “Rifleman’s Rifle” without the Model 54.

I'm happy with my Model 71, just not pleased with .348 availability.