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BigIron
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Reged: 12/01/04
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Loc: Texas

Safari Express .458 Update
21/02/04 12:01 PM

Hi guys
The big day finally came after a nearly 3 week wait. I'm on the road at 9:00am for my 160 mile round trip drive to pick up my new Winchester M70 Safari Express .458 Magnum. I arrive at the dealers fill out the paperwork give the gun a quick once over and I'm back on the road. I arrive back home and open the box to wipe the gun down, run a clean patch thru the bore, load 100 510grn SP rounds in the truck and head to the range.

I pick the gun up out of the box and shoulder it thinking about how good the rifle feels and then I notice the sights are mounted at about 11:30 instead of 12 o'clock on top of the barrel. I double check and sure enough the sights are mounted to the left of the center of the barrel. By now I'm getting a sick feeling.

I go back to the box to pick up the bolt and notice there is a white substance surrounding a mound of rust in the seam of the bolt near the handle (It appears to be bluing salts that were not washed away after the bluing process.

I call Winchester and speak to a very nice gentleman who stated they will take care of me and will mail me a UPS return label.

I know I should have taken a better look at the rifle before leaving the dealer but as usual I was in a hurry to beat the heavy Friday afternoon traffic.

Hope everybody's day went better.

I will be updating as I hear back from Winchester.

Scott

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Safari Express .458 Update	BigIron	21/02/04 12:01 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	Shoot4_FUN_58	20/05/04 07:23 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	RLI	20/05/04 08:04 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	Will	16/03/04 07:15 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BigIron	16/03/04 07:58 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BigIron	16/03/04 06:13 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	NONE	07/03/04 05:58 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	475Guy	07/03/04 06:32 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	ThomasEdwards	07/03/04 06:53 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BFaucett	08/03/04 04:17 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	atkinson6	09/03/04 04:26 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	luv2safari	09/03/04 12:18 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	Dark_Helmet	10/03/04 12:26 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	475Guy	07/03/04 09:43 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	wombat	06/03/04 05:00 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BigIron	07/03/04 05:13 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	luv2safari	08/03/04 06:13 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	luv2safari	04/03/04 05:26 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	475Guy	21/02/04 02:55 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BigIron	21/02/04 03:50 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	475Guy	21/02/04 04:49 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BigIron	21/02/04 05:17 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	475Guy	22/02/04 07:38 AM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	458RugerNo1	04/03/04 04:22 PM
Re: Safari Express .458 Update	BFaucett	04/03/04 05:24 PM

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