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Now that there is funny.....

I've thought that the 760/7600 parkerized with synthetic stock, large box magazine, NECG express sights, flip-up back-up peep, properly mounted 6x42, and with a proper 21" barrel in 9.3x62 would be about the handiest, killin'est rig out there for anything in North America.

The one thing I don't like about my 7600 is the synthetic stock is too high to allow comfortable use of the iron sights. I haven't seen any synthetics that don't have the high comb. Anybody seen or have a straight synthetic stock?

Also, the trigger is pretty crappy. Have any of y'all used these folks to have your trigger worked? WEBSITE

Here is a place that has a spring kit for $10- or a work over to a "match" 2.5-3# for $60-.
http://www.barnesgunparts.com/remington-7400-7600-760-740-.html

I sure agree with you on that one! I've toyed with the idea of modifying mine - like that. But, as it was my Dad's - I keep resisting. I just wish I could buy another - already made that way. That a bear rifle that would be!

Might want to add a real recoil pad to the list vs. the factory offering.

Thanks, FVA. It looks like they really work over the trigger group.

I agree...He did start with the easy things first, too. Most people buy a truck and then look for a "truck gun". He bought the gun and now needs a "gun truck".......

On both ends.

Well, I let a 270 on GunBroker get away from me but had an epiphany. Since I already have a 30 06 dies, brass, and couple hundred 30 caliber bullets, not so with the 270, why not go with a 270 Improved. There are tons of 760/7600 30 06�s. Looks like I should be able to pick up a very nice one for mid three�s give or take $50-. Pretty sure I am going to give the Remington pump a go.
Thanks all.

Not at all; the CZ550FS in 9.3x62 I have isn't nearly that bad. A whole lot more enjoyable to shoot than any 3" magnum 12 gauge, and not much worse (if any) than a heavy loaded '06.

HI Paul,

ASI is in the southern US. I had another trigger done by Barnes Custom Gunsmithing also in the US. Google them for contact info. Both did excellent jobs.

Shame that ordering guns over the border is a impossibility as there are a bunch of Whelens on GB.

the last 760 a bought on gb was a very clean 30-06 i gave 285 shipped for it.

here in mo. the 760/7600 are cheap and not very popular. i love my 760 in a 6mm.

yeah, the carbines handle different. They would be perfect with a 20" barrel in my opinion.

I doubt it would kick more, but she'll be a lot louder with the 18.5" barrel, that I know. None of mine are currently carbines, but if I found one in a 35 whelen of a .35 rem. they would be real quick.

There's a group a couple states north of you that uses the 7600's almost exclusively - the Benoits, ever heard of them? I know their hunting isn't quite as demanding as setting up behind some hay bales (tongue firmly planted in cheek) but the 7600 seems to work for them.

The group of guys I hunt with all switched from 742/740/7400 to 760/7600 because they had jamming problems. They have never ever had an issue with the 760/7600. They hunt hard in some pretty terrible weather and these guys are not rifle looneys. Their rifles are not babied. This says a lot to me on their reliability.

BINGO!!!! Right on JDK.

I've wanted a 7600 in .308 for as long as I can remember. Finally bought one about a month ago. I am real pleased with it's accuracy. The first time I tried to get a 3 shot group at 100 yards, I fired the first two shots and had an oblong hole. The third shot was just below the first two. It was about a 3/4 inch group. I am having a problem though. The gun is suppose to hold 4 rounds, so I guess that would be one round in the chamber and three in the magazine. If I put more than two rounds in the magazine, when I push the slide forward, it does not want to lock. If I have one or two rounds in the magazine when I push the slide forward, it does not seem to be a problem. And, if the slide is not locked forward, you can't pull the trigger. Anyone have an idea what the problem may be? Other than that, I love the gun. Hopefully it will be my main whitetail rifle.

Only M760 I know of that had "jamming" problems, was an older one in 300 Savage that belonged to an old dairy farmer I knew for many years, (he's gone now). He got stopped by a Dep. one year, right in front of my cabin and the Dep. had a fit because the loaded magazine was in the old boy's M760.

The farmer explained that he couldn't get the magazine out of it, that's why it was still in the rifle. Dep. couldn't remove it either, so he told him to take it home and deal with it, wrote him up a smaller infraction for having a rifle in the truck with loaded mag in it.

Joke was, the reason the mag wouldn't come out, is because it would hold one more round than advertised, but you had to shuck a cartrdige or two out of it, before it would come out. Lucky for him, the Dep. bought into his "it's jammed" story and never thought to work the pump action to unload it.

Hunted with one in 30-06 for some time many years ago, sold it. Never had any problems with it jamming. Someone that'd hunted with one for years, advised me to work it like I was trying to rip the fore end off. I did, it never failed to cycle.