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Pappy, any Remington six you find for under $500 give me a shout, Ill buy everyone of em

No Sixes locally, but a lot of 7600s. The 4-lug bolt and the supposedly quieter pump handle makes them better in my opinion.

Love that cartridge head inletted in the reciever. Classy touch.

For deer hunting, I just don't believe you could tell the difference between the 300 Sav and the 308 in the real world of hunting just like the 243 and 6mm Rem.

I currently have a couple dozen rifles chambered in 300 Savage, but shoot none of them regularly.

I currently have a quite a few Savage 1899/99 rifles, but shoot none of them regularly.

I currently have five Remington 760/7600 rifles in 6.5x55, 270x2, and 30-06x2. In terms of stock ergs, I like the monte-carlo style 760 BDL stocks with the basket-weave style "checkering" and the raised cheek-piece that were cataloged from 1966 thru 1980.

I'm reminded sitting on my desk in front of me is mainspring for a Savage 1920. It needs to be duplicated, and the rifle taken hunting this year

The Savage 1899/99's are really enjoyable rifles. Early on they were adapted to pointed bullets, and were made of forged steel and walnut. They really weren't luxury items in their day, except for the special order rifles, but were still well made with good barrels. Many of them will shoot as well as modern rifles. I've wound up with four of the 99's in .300, and the one Model 1920, also in .300. The 1920 was way ahead of its time as a handy, lightweight bolt gun.

I sometimes have wondered if Savage's redesign of the M99 in 1960 might have influenced the accounting gurus at Winchester, when they started cutting corners on the M70, four years later.

I think Remington "showed the way" when they abandoned the 30s and started applying the lessons learned during the war to sporting models. Reportedly, the 721, etc were killing the M70 on price, and WW was already losing money on them.

Evrybody likes nice guns but there's got to be enough folks willing to pay for them to keep them on the market. Possibly WW could have kept the original rifle in the line, at a premium, and made the push-feed to compete on the low end, but they went with the whole enchilada.

....and it's been downhill for them ever since... Back to the subject at hand: Too bad the clerk screwed up. That guy/girl needs to be horse whipped.. However, a 300 savage is kind of lost on a big heavy pre 64 model 70. That cartridge would be sweet in a Kimber Montana though or even a fwt model 70. I had a Remington 722 300 savage. Rifle wasn't bad if you could get past the tacky extractor that is a bi otch to find if they go bad (don't ask how I know this), and the stamped steel parts . I've picked up and examined a couple old aluminum butt plate 760's that were very cool though and regretted not buying one at a local gunshow that was reasonably priced at $350.00...

When I was in grad school during the mid-1980's, I made pocket money by cutting down and rechambering Remington 722s. There are probably 60 Remington 722s with 20" barrels floating around. The 222's were rechambered to 223 and 22-250. The 300's were rechambered to 308 and 30-284. The 257 Roberts were left alone or rechambered to 257AI and 25-284.

I can remember in the early fifties when M70s in .35 Rem. and .300 Sav. were being sold at closeout prices in the back of sporting magazines. If only my Dad would have listened to me.

My Father took a leave of absence from his job when he heard that Winchester was going to redesign the Model 70 and spent the better part of two months traveling all over the Northeast buying NIB and used Model 70s if they were in an uncommon configuration or caliber. I remember that 1963 was the year that our dining room was stacked with gun boxes and we had Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner in the kitchen, much to the annoyance of my Mother.

His buying spree worked out well for me, as shortly after my Father passed away, I traded a large stack of those rifles for a section of irrigated farm ground.

I hope it's the ergos and not the looks; those puppies had some serious oogly goin' on!

The stepped receiver was kinda cool though.

Someday I'm going to have to pick up a 6 or 7600, just because. Maybe something rubbed off on me while I was hunting in PA for all those years. I think pumps got a bad rap about reliability because so many guys put them away dirty.

I've never heard about Remington pump guns being unreliable, dirty or otherwise.

I think of the basket-weave "checkering" as being "unique" more than "oogly" and I do like the stepped receivers.