{"id":26114,"date":"2024-12-17T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/ten-times-its-estimate-a-winchester-model-70-bidding-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:00:24","slug":"ten-times-its-estimate-a-winchester-model-70-bidding-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/ten-times-its-estimate-a-winchester-model-70-bidding-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"TEN TIMES ITS ESTIMATE! A Winchester Model 70 Bidding Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyO31Na1yuM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This absolute dream gun of a Winchester Model 70 had everything collectors want: Super Grade, carbine, in the early caliber of .257 Roberts, and even better than pre-64, it was World War 2 era &#8211; a time when commercial guns took a backseat to wartime production.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a number of bidders who pushed the &#8220;rifleman&#8217;s rifle&#8221; past its high estimate of $8,500, and two determined collectors who drove it to more than TEN TIMES that amount.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This absolute dream gun of a Winchester Model 70 had everything collectors want: Super Grade, carbine, in the early caliber of .257 Roberts, and even better than pre-64, it was World War 2 era &#8211; a time when commercial guns took a backseat to wartime production. The result was a number of bidders who pushed&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/ten-times-its-estimate-a-winchester-model-70-bidding-battle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TEN TIMES ITS ESTIMATE! A Winchester Model 70 Bidding Battle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}