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Mooresville GM had them the last time I was in there.

Or Buds
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog...?keywords=Remington+7600&x=6&y=4

Nice to see a thread that doesn't involve Kimber or hubble scopes. Good stuff here.

You don't need that stuff in Maine. It will never help a guy up there.

Yep, in fact they're a liability a lot of the time when you're hunting places so thick that you couldn't fall down if you wanted to. Biggest reason guys at our camp didn't get shots....."Couldn't find'em in the scope". This thread makes me miss my 280 I just sold, but I had to reduce, more use for the other 3 7600s I'm keeping though. Up to Maine for bear in about 2 months and then back up for deer in Nov.

Likely not very good hunters/shooters. Just because I guy has been doing something for 40 years, don't mean he's worth a shiet.

The 'Couldn't find them in the scope' tells me they are pretty much idiots.

Sure, finding a BRAND NEW model isn't a problem. I don't like the MC and I'd kind of prefer a 760.

Understood. The 760s are cool.

Or look at the 104 of them that are currently listed on Gunbroker.

I'll do Gunbroker only IF it's something I absolutely can't find.

I did send a seller 2 questions about a 760 he has for sale, that was 5 days ago and no answer. So I'll not be buying from them.

Gunbroker and Ebay are better for the other schleps of the world.

Someone had a Savage 170 for sale here a while ago.

I wish I could find one of those local.

And you think Remington 742's jam...

We stopped using those for demo's for hunters safety because they wouldn't cycle live or demo ammo. I'm not sure you could give me one of those.

I have used Remington 14's and 141's in 35 rem. for deer with good results,but this year I will be taking the 14 1/2 in 38-40 out.

Hamburg pa cables has racks of used 760s

I've owned several Savage 170s, including a couple in 35, and all of them cycled fine. I recently gave a pair of 170s in 30-30 and a Remington 572 to brothers in Vermont as a means by which to get them off on the right foot. I zeroed all 3 rifles before I sent them off to their local dealer and the 30-30s were shooting about 1.5MOA with Federal blue box 170 grain factory ammo. The family subsistence farms, a tough thing in northern New England, and home-schools the boys, so they have plenty of time to hunt, fish, and trap.

I gave them the option of NIB Marlin XS7s in 7mm-08, Mossberg 472s in 30-30, or the Savage 170s in 30-30. They picked the Savages.

In my part of PA nice 760's and 7600's are pretty easy to find. If you look you can even find one that has had a butt pad changed and get it for cheap because it is no longer original. Only problem is most are 30-06.

When we were teens my best friend used a Savage 170 30-30 and I used a 760 30-06. I remember his Savage having a terrible trigger and it wasn't half the gun my 760 was.

I would agree that the Savage 170 triggers aren't match grade and the overall package isn't as tight as the any of the Remington CF pump guns. But they are pretty accurate and they are a bit lighter than the Remington CF pump guns.

Gitem -

For some reason I couldn't quote you ???

I think the reason some don't think pumps are accurate is "preconceived idea". For many years WE read, yeah read, only bolt actions were accurate. With that "fact" planted and fertilized, many haven't tried the pumps.

I was fortunate in that my Dad got a 760 in 06 back in the early 60s so I had first hand experience with a Rem pump deer rifle so I knew better than what some said in mags.

Some things you have to prove/disprove to yourself.

Jerry