This was Jack O'Connor's "No. 2" in .270 Winchester, with a Leupold 4X Mountaineer and a custom Al Biesen stock:



This is my very own Jack O'Connor Tribute Rifle
Inspired by one of Mr. O.Connor's favorite rifles
Original 1958 gun and sling, Leupold Mountaineer 4X Scope, Modern SK mounts and rings:





Link to Field and Stream article about Mr. O’Connor’s rifle

I sent the Jack O’Conner Center a picture of my rifle and they thought it was fun. If I was to ever get out there I would want to get side by side photos of the two guns. I’ve even thought of sending mine out there for a photo shoot, but that would be asking a very big favor and they would need a FFL on their end to receive it and return it me.

Another picture of the real Jack O'Connor No. 2:

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Close enough!

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That would be more gratifying to own and use than rifles in current gun catalogs. Thanks for posting.

^^^^^^^What he said!!!^^^^^^^

What a classic rifle. Thanks for sharing with us. A true piece of American craftsmanship. But you know we need a "range report"!?

Best Regards, Les

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Great rifle, classic. Those rings and bases look like Conetrol. They may be SK, but I did not know SK ever made any rings and bases like these. They are "twins" to the ones the guy in Texas makes and sells as Conetrol rings.

As Elmer Keith would say........Good long range coyote rifle! Very nice!

Nice looking rifles!

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I like blue steel and pretty wood.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Me too!! Give me deep blued steel, and a nice piece of walnut or black walnut over parkerizing and plastic any day.I don't own anything newer than 1980, and I just bought a nice rifle today made in 1942, blue and walnut

Beautiful classic!

Very nice. SS and synthetic stocks will never look that good.

My icon is three rounds of the .270 at 100 yards

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I hear ya pal. Not to brag or compare but can't believe how good my ole Rem 700 looks compared to many of the offerings these days in the same price range that I paid for mine 36 years back. And to think I took walnut and deep high polish bluing for granted!!

I posted this awhile back:

Just take those old guns off of the shelf
I'll sit and play with 'em all by myself
Today's guns they ain't got the same feel
I like that old time wood 'n' steel

Don't try to force feed me plastic
That type of stuff it makes me puke on the floor
I don't like the way those plastic guns feel
I like that old time wood 'n' steel

Still like that old time wood 'n' steel
Those kind of guns they have just the right feel
I reminisce about guns with a wheel
And that old time wood 'n' steel

(with apologies to Bob Seeger)

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That’s what the word SHOULD have been!
You sir are a credit to the music/ gun industry.
Now how about one about a wood stocked AR?

I lost interest in rifles when they were.................

"Painted Black"

I forget the words by the Rolling Stones.......
Great song, but not a rifle.

It goes like this:

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I hope there a few younger folk that appreciate the beauty and craftsmanship of the guns of days (now) gone by, but I fear we blue steel and walnut lovers are a dying breed. We're just not Tactical enough, ya know?

You can find a few rifles for sale with would stocks. I bought 2 Savage Rifles about 3 years ago that had walnut stocks and they are the Model 114 and the model 14. The 114 is a 270 win and the Model 14 is a 308 rifle.
Model 14 in 308

Model 114 270

I wish I had kept some of the Pre64 m70s that I had back in 70s.
Biggest part of them were 3006s. That had to be the most popular model. I had them in 270 too but at the time was into
bigger calibres. I had mint pre wars with quarter sawn stocks
and butterfly safeties in 06 & 270. The only one that I have held
on to all these years is a 70fw in 308. The only one that I got NIB
in 1964. It was the last of the pre 64s that were still on shelves.
I never had a pre 64 m70 that didn't shoot well, except for 2
in 264mg. i might have been ammo because I didn't load 264
back then.

I don't hunt
The other Winchester rifle I don't hunt with is a .257 Roberts

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Jack's favorite "Bob" was a M70 too!
Very nice.

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My father taught me to try to look at the bright side of things in life.
Blued steel and walnut stocks are not the fad nowadays!That used to make me sad ...until I remembered what my father taught me;people now want black plastic guns...'t makes more of the real blued walnut ones available at a lower price for me!

I have too many rifles, but can't bring myself to sell any of them. I have gotten to where I pick a "rifle of the year" and that's the one I hunt with pretty much the whole deer season (here in Alabama that runs for nearly 3 months with a liberal bag limit). So most of them sit in the safe most of the time. But those blue steel and walnut beauties have SOUL, and I rarely ever part with one once it proves itself in accuracy, reliability, and especially after having taken game with it.

I lucked into a pre-WWII Model 70 in .270 at an estate sale about 25 years ago. I paid $300 for it - gladly. Winchester knew what it was doing back then. I have never hunted with it, but I used to fire it frequently, but not so much over the last 10 years. I am now working up a special purpose .270 load for a friend, and am planning to use the M70 to test it. It always amazes me that the factories are continually grinding out all these new calibers when the 90-YO .270 is better than 95% of them. Not much you cannot do with the right load in a .270, from varmints to bear. I have never seen any .270 which didn't group like a target rifle. Even my Remington 7400 in .270 does.

The 270 round is so good it's almost boring.

Agree on the .270. I don't presently have one, but shot .270 almost exclusively for years. Still remember my most used load - 130 grain Sierra boattail over 55 grs H-4350. Killed a bunch of deer with that. I never shot anything bigger than a deer with a .270 but had a load worked out with the 160 gr. Partition Nosler that I'd have been (and still would) confident in for the bigger stuff. And to correct some thread drift here, my
270s were both steel and walnut beauties - an early Ruger 77 round top and a Remington 700 Classic. That 700 was crazy accurate and a friend-of-a-friend still has it. I had it set up just like the OP's Jack O rifle - 4x Leupold and all.

I just remembered this thread today. I picked up a 1950 Winchester model 70 in .270 Winchester not too long ago. Someone had slathered polyurethane or something in the checkering, and here and there on the stock, complete with thick runs, but otherwise the gun was untouched. I have been playing around with it and hope to restore it, something like the OP’s. I have read three of Jack O’Conners books that I have to get in the right mood. It is a standard weight, not a feather weight, but is about the right era. I have been working on some loads, and picked up factory ammo, virgin cases, and bullets. Already had all the other stuff to reload. I have temporarily mounted an inexpensive tasco scope, but am searching for something more vintage that would look at home. But the tasco will do for load development.

Not a very good shot, but this is what it looked like the day I picked it up...



Best Regards, Les

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The 30-06 was born,well you all know in 1906.Still in its teen and with the assistance of father Winchester the 06 gave birth to the .270(1925).Given good ballistic coefficient,the newborn never looked back.Instant success maybe not but with the recognition of such a fine pen as Mr O'Connor,the kid was running towards famed recognition,,,and deservedly so.
It is also no secret that Mr O'Connor liked(loved)the Mod 70 from Winchester for even in its infancy the gun was well born and great.
While we are in the 21st century,it conforts my old bones to know that such thing from one century ago are still considered as piece of art.
Now if I could just convince my wife that I might still be of some use!!!
Forgot the most important thing here:Bushmaster,I'm jealous.Nice find.Congrats!