A friend has a Winchester model 70..225 caliber.....It is new in the box..made in 1964..never fired.....How much might it be worth??? He has several boxes of cartridges too.....
The day I got out of the Navy in Charleston, SC, I went to a local camera store that also sold firearms. I wanted a 22-250. The week before, they had a Remington 700 in that caliber and they had a new Winchester Model 70 in .225.
I bought the .225 and the owner of the store also sold me a Lyman 8x scope and mounted the scope on the rifle. The mount was a Marbles and had the eccentric bushing in front for major windage adjustment.
I killed my first groundhog with that gun. I could not shoot worth a crap, but an Army MSGT who was involved in ROTC at Washington University, lived in our same town and taught me the basics of shooting.
I bought the rifle in 1965 and traded it off probably in 1978 or so.
The cartridge never quite took off. It performed just fine for me. Brass is getting a little hard to come by now.
It is a shame the cartridge is not more popular. It is a sweet shooter.