Someone should take those two "schmucks with earlaps already" outside for a good old "Bosephus- Attitude Adjustment-and get their sorry Bernie Baruch asses in tune with the program. Their BS ads are all over Gun Digest like a cheap suit on a laid-off pimp-what a travesty- like the numbnutz in PA who advertises "because I am a dealer, I can pay more"-how many really "with the program" gun buyers, collectors, shooters do these peckerwoods think they will rope in-? Dicky and Graigsey had listed a Win M54 .270 SuperGrade mfg. 1933-Just for the Hell of it, I called, asked for the serial number, with my Schwing pocket Winnie guidebook open to the M54 section- Old pencildick, or was it pencilgraig- read off the number-book showed 1931-BUT Winchester did not bring out the Supergrade for the M54 until late 1935 (Roger Rule's book) and then carried it over with the far better M70-Went to a MI gunshow a few years ago, pal wanted a SuperGrade M70 even more than Monica Lewinski wanted a Lavoris dispenser and some Dixie Cups in the Oval Office "Rest-Room"- we found a nice 1954 .270- Supergrade stock, solid red pad with the two "titty plugs" SuperGrade QD's, black tip-20 LPI checkering, but that varied as did the comb styles from 1935 until Winchester dropped the SuperGrade in 1960. I had my Rule book on the M70 (worth every penny too) and the script and dashes on the floorplate looked more like a 1940's SuperGrade style-and floorplates were interchangable-also no "engine turned bolt" as the later SuperGrades usually had- so we asked the dealer to remove the three through bolts so we could look at the barrel underside- caliber, date stamp, inspectors marks and on ALL original SuperGrades- in larger case SUPER-he declined, and we saved our $- Caveat Emperor- and as for Dick and Craig and their crooked ilk- "You and the horses you rode into town on---"!!
