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rahtreelimbs

That's and outstanding group with factory fodder!!!! What caliber? You got pics of the model 6?

The only factory ammo I've tried was the Federal Fusions and couldn't do any better than about 1 1/2" groups. Guess I'll just stick to my handloads.

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That is a sweet shooting rifle. Haven't had time to put mine through the paces yet but I hope it shoots as good as yours and some of the others posted.
I have a couple hundred Combined Technology Partition Gold 150's I plan on giving a try. Picked them up for $11- a box a couple years ago. With prices as they are I wish I picked up a couple hundred more.

That is a 30.06.


Not bad for $260 minus the scope!!!


I will get some pics and post them tonite!!!

rahtreelimbs.....that's definitely a nice looking set-up.

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My 7600 7mm-08 with laminated stocks. Leupy vx2 1x4 with a Premier Reticle #4 mounted in Talley lightweight rings.



Not a great group but it works for me. My hand load shoots to the same zero as 140gr Rem. factory ammo.

Dave,

is that stock an aftermarket stock? looks pretty sharp.

Thanks Colin. Grice Wholesale in PA had a special run made. The 7600's with the laminated stocks were chambered in 30-06,.270, 25-06,& 7mm-08.

Boyd's gunstocks does have aftermarket stocks for the 7600.
http://www.boydsgunstocks.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=7600&Search.x=6&Search.y=1

Ok, guys. There's only 126 replies on this thread. Doesn't anyone have an opinion on the 7600/760's???

just think, no bashing it either. must be a hell of a gun 'eh?

tzone,
I noticed that! All those replies, and almost all of them positive and enthusiastic!! It almost enough to make you think that the 7600/760's are real sleepers as far as hunting rifles are concerned. The folks that have them seem to really like them! When I first bought my first one, back before 1990, as soon as Remmie brought it out in .280 I said I had to have one! It's been a good and faithful rifle ever since. Someday I might have to take the plunge and get a third one (I inherited my brother's 760 in .30-06), mebbeso in 35 Whelen. That would make a real nice 'thumper', and would nicely complement my Marlin 444 and .45-70's.

I got one in .280 earlier this year. The next one I get, will be in .35 Rem. I had one of those too, but of course stupidly got rid of it.

I picked up a 7600 in 35 Whelen 2 years ago. I used it last season and was pleased with the results. I loaded 250gr Hornady roundnoses with 57gr of R15. Shoots pretty good, a little over an inch at 100. I can't wait to take it out again this hunting season.

Nice group.

I have never seen so many pictures of a rifle that we should all know what they look like or targets that really prove nothing..but all that aside the 7600 was the rifle the CIA picked for an assasination rifle and they may still use it in certain cases such as Pablo Escobar etc. or I guess they can when the Republicans are in office!

I have shot a number of them and they feed like s--t through a goose and everyone one of them would shoot an inch, that is no faint praise..I personally like the 760 with the corncob forend much better than the 7600..

What I do not like at all is that forend that rattles like 50 pounds of ball bearing in a box car..surely there is some way to muffle that damn thing!!

If it is a later model 760 or a 7600 it will have an O ring on the slide tube that can be replaced to stop the rattling. If its an older 760 you can have a groove machined to add the O ring.

Targets really don't mean much, except that my particular rifle likes 180 SST's, and you don't need a bolt gun to shoot sub-moa groups.

How do you take apart the 7600? Do you need a gunsmith or can it be done by a regular joe?

Thanks for the link, Dave.

MidwayUSA sells a small book that's a take down guide. The short answer is remove the fore end, place the receiver in a padded vice, heat the action tube (just enough to break the loctite) run a punch through the holes in the action tube and tap the punch with a mallet to unscrew the tube off of the bolt that runs through the front of the receiver. The whole barrel/action tube/bolt assembly will come out of the receiver kind of like an 870 shotgun. That said, I'd use a gunsmith. A friend changed a barrel on a 760 recently and said it wasn't too difficult but he did break a punch. He later learned Remington uses Loctite on the bolt the action tube screws onto.

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