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Picked the gun up this morning. My $250 760 pump in 30-06, without a magazine.
Common caliber, but couldn't refuse it at that price.
Barrel code is "BMB" if anyone can age it, I'm thinking early 60's. (EDIT Found on barrel code table on Remington Society, appears to have been manufactured Jan. 1965.)


Judging from the muzzle, I'd say it hasn't been shot or cleaned in quite a while. Needs a good cleaning and going over.


No wear on the slide bars or pump tube, damn few rounds thru it for sure.
I've picked up several guns this way in north Jersey, over the years. Seems guys get tired of hunting deer with a shotgun in Jersey(centerfire rifles not permitted) and have friends that go upstate New York, to the Catskills. So they buy a rifle, sight in in and hunt the Catskills for a year or 2, don't see a deer, complain about the price of the license and stop going. Then the gun either goes up for sale used, or sits in a closet till the person dies and then is sold. I'll take it !!!!!