As it should be, the original is owned by the O’Connor family and destined to forever remain in their care.īuilt by Al & Roger Biesen, the Model 70 Featherweight barreled action is flawlessly stocked in French walnut, graced with a fine borderless 24 lines-per-inch checkering accented with fleurs and finished with an ebony forend tip. Month after month, year after year, in sunshine and in rain it puts its favorite load with the 130-grain Nosler bullet into a little group three inches high at a hundred yards.” The Biesen / O’Connor rifle offered here is a faithful reproduction of “No 2”.
As O’Connor wrote in Sheep and Sheep Hunting (Winchester Press, 1974), The No. 270 Winchester rifles for the legendary writer. Those who are familiar with O’Connor’s writings will remember that Al Biesen stocked and customized two nearly-identical Winchester pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight. Donated to the Boone and Crockett Club by the raffle winner, it is presented through the Club’s Guns For Conservation Program.
Imagined in 2002, commissioned in 2004 and raffled in 2006 this one-of-a-kind custom rifle is the result of superb cooperation between the O’Connor family, the Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center and the Idaho Chapter of FNAWS. 270 Winchester Jack O’Connor tribute, completed in 2006, engraved, pristine Biesen custom Winchester pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight.