I sure miss Bob Beach

[Phil C]

Edgar and Bob you are spot on about Bob Beach and his letters. The details and data he provided was unbelievable.
Its been 4 years since Bob retired and unfortunately G&H has not filled the position.
For collectors, or guys like us that just love to find as much history as possible on a nice firearm. It many times is a stopping point as we have nothing further to use to trace possible history on the gun.
In the case of the model 70, I found the SN when I used the search option on the G&H website.
Its a high condition nice rifle with the G&H side mount and Zeiss scope. I would sure like to know if the rifle was ordered this way, or was ordered by A&F and G&H installed.
The research I have done on line pointed to many stating how they don't like the after market side mount and how it devalues the rifle.
I personally think its attractive and now believe that Winchester may have offered this set up as an option at least until 1941.
This morning while going through Roger Rules book I found on page 201 a picture of a 1938 brochure although unreadable, it shows pictures of the advertised target rifle with several pictures of what clearly is the same Mount as on my rifle.
I know we have a lot of very knowledgable members here that like the model 70.
If anyone has a copy of the brochure I would be most grateful to get a picture of the page showing the scope mount system.