OK.
First, I think the "hanger" you are talking about is actually the spacer at the end of the slide bar. It keeps the bar from bending and keeps brush out from between the barrel and slide bar. Just forget about it! That spacer is easy enough to ht with a file if it ever does give you a problem.
Second the early 760s had a seven diamond checkering patterns or the corn cob forearm. Nice either way. The next group had pressed checkering. Thee were small action changes (like metal dust covers to plastic dust covers) some good some less so. None were all that important.
Third, 7600s can be just as functional and just as accurate. Pick what you like and go kill stuff. None of them are bad guns. Ive been through 6-8 of them and they all shot without a lot of trouble.
I like the interrupted thread locking lugs of the model 760 versus the opposed dual locking lugs of the model 7600. If you ever climbed up into your treestand and tried to load your pump Remington you know why. The model 760 slides closes and locks up quieter than the 7600.
As far as this "hanger" you guys keep talking about no such thing exists on the model 760. The model 14 and 141 had a brush guard but not the 76,760,6,7600 series.
