I've hunted with and collected M70's since I was a kid so I'm fairly familar with them. I have to ask, what is your intent? If you spend the $6k on the 9mm M70, you'll get a very rare collector gun that has no real utility use at all. That is, unless you want to plunk a deer or whatever with an oddball caliber. The best you could hope for is to find another collector down the road and make some money on it (good luck). M70 guys are all getting older and many are selling their collections; and most younger gents could care less for a pre-64. Everyone seems to need a WSM or a RSUM right now. On the other hand if you spend the 6k on a M21 or a graded Fox, etc. you can hunt and/or shoot clays with it, and still hope to make some money down the road. If anything, classic doubles are enjoying a popularity surge right now, unlike M70's. And even if you don't see any appreciation, so what? You will get the enjoyment out of a good classic double, more so than having the 9mm M70 stacked in the safe 99.999% of the time. I guess what I'm saying is, unless you are a purist collector who just has to have something highly unusual, there are better places to put the 6k. IMO of course. Silvers
It's hard to get excieted over that red stain "birch like" stock and those crude rear sights that old Winchesters have. 