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A light weight .450 Bushmaster with 18" tube for woods hunting . Could be a big seller

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Remington has shot themselves in the foot so many times that I sure question their marketing. A .30-06 in a carbine 7600 is yet another foot shot IMO. There is nothing mild recoiling about a .30-06 in any Remington pump let alone a shorter lighter weight one. Why not a .35 Remington, .308, .300 Savage, 350 Winchester, even a .358 maybe? Probably to be politically correct because only the .35 Remington has their invented here moniker. A 7mm-08 then.

I dunno, my 760 pump Carbine in 30-06 has been killing deer for me since 1979, and all this time, I have yet to notice any recoil when shooting a deer.
I think they are keepers !!!!!!

Oh not to say an '06 doesn't work, it does, but a .308 does the same thing on deer size game with 23% less recoil for a hundred less fps in a shorter cartridge. I've shot deer with a .30-06, .308 and a .300 Savage and couldn't tell a bit of difference in how they all reacted. We had a guy in camp with a .30-06 760 and while he liked the rifle, he didn't like the recoil. I sold off my m70 .30-06 for the same reason.

I hear what you are saying, and I agree, trouble is a 760 Carbine in .308 is about impossible to find and when you do, the price they go for is hard to believe (don't ask me how I know this, LMAO).

I've had my 06 Carbine since 1979 and just this year I was able to find a .308 Carbine (it is 1970 vintage) which I talked about further up in this thread, been looking for one for many years. I paid dearly for it, but I wanted it.

A long run here and I have enjoyed it all. I have a 760 in 358 Winchester I'm trying to set up with a folding stock and QD suppressor. For a truck gun it might just fill the bill. If not I will set up a AR pistol with 45 ACP/ suppressed and folding brace. Be Well, RZ.

Wink that's a gorgeous piece of wood on that carbine. Jealous.

Brent, Interesting story behind that gun and stock.

I had to order it from my LGS way back in 1979 as no one seemed to stock Carbines much back then, consumers were chasing velocity and wanted a 22 inch barrel to shoot deer at 60 yards in the Catskills. The store had several in stock when I ordered it, but no carbines.

Anyways, local LGS owner, Lou Salvato was like a 2nd father to me and knew I was pretty anal about the store unsealing the box before I got there. When they opened it, all I heard from the 6 employees behind the counter was "AHHHHH, look at that wood"., etc.

I truly think that if they had opened the box before I got there, I would have never gotten that particular gun, or at least I wouldn't have gotten the wood that was initially on it.

I also think that when that gun was made, some employee at the Remington Plant was pizzed off at their boss or something and took wood destined for the custom shop and threw it into the regular bin as this is a 760 ADL, not the BDL with the basket weave checkering and I don't think it ever should have gotten that piece of wood. Just a guess but I'll take what I can get.

I have wanted a 7600 in 270 for a while.

I have thought about a Michael Petrov style 400 Whelen in a 760. I guess it is just a dream. No 'smith has ever offered to help me with my loony problem and 760's. I can't even find a good functioning 10 round magazine for a 308 cartridge. Be Well, RZ.

I like the sound of that! No reason you couldn't load heavy subsonics to go with the can. A .358 is a good fit for Missouri; down here by the border a .270 is better medicine.

I've been watching the GB prices lately and it seemed a little sanity was seeping back into the pump gun market. Most guns with a starting price over $600 were not even getting bid on. Then this one showed up. I watch for anything produced in 1968 as it's my birth year and thought if the price stayed reasonable I might throw in a bid hoping to get a 358 donor. Right now I'm thinking I got a hell of a deal on my carbine here a couple years ago. lol

It seems most of them go nowhere unless they start at a penny from what I'm seeing lately also.

I'm loving the high bid on that .308 Carbine, and I thought I paid way to much for mine, LMAO !!!!

What the demand is for 308 carbines IMHO if you reload just load a 30-06 to 308 velocity and pay less. There's no difference is action length. My 30-06 load is about the same as 308 for both of my rifles and it kills just fine.

Dave, I agree with you on all counts, and even if you aren't a reloader reduced loads are manufactured for the 30-06.

I think the current demand, and the prices are due to the rarity of them. Back in the 60's-70's gunwriters of the day had consumers chasing velocity, hence carbines were not that much in demand, everyone wanted a 22 inch barrel on those pumps. The few that went against the grain tended to buy a carbine in 30-06, probably because it handled heavier bullets better according to gunwriters of the day. I know when I bought my 30-06 carbine in 1979 my LGS didn't have any in stock, all the 22 inch barrels you wanted but no carbines so they had to order mine.

Now fast forward to the present. I think because of what I stated above, there are not to many carbines out there in the used market in .308 and obviously they aren't making them anymore. I looked for YEARS, not because I needed one, but because I wanted one and they are extremely hard to find. If you look hard enough you can find them in 30-06 but .308 carbines are rare birds. So I got to the point that I didn't care what it cost, I just wanted one. A local LGS owner had one(his personal gun) and I bugged him for years, he didn't want to sell, so this year I just kept upping the offer $100 at a time untill he went for it.

I felt I overpaid for it but I didn't care. Then in light of the fact that I saw 2 sell on Gunbroker recently for $1600 and $1800 I realized I did well on the purchase. Additionally the one bbassi mentioned in his post above sold yesterday for $1876.

Now the only Carbine I want is a 760 in .35 Remington, but that one will be real tough if not impossible as they only produced it from 1964 to 1967 and again in 1979 and in that 5 year period only made 454 of them according to records I had gotten from Remington. I'm sure if one came up on Gunbroker it would top out at over 5 grand.

WM, absolutely buy what you want. My son bought me a 7600 7mm-08 with gray laminate stocks (Grice special run). The choice was between the 7mm-08 and 25-06. Easy choice for me.

Does anybody know if the forearm from the 7600 will fit the 760 series of rifles?

The newer 760's (post 1968) forends will interchange with a 7600 but the pre 68's, the corncob, 5 diamonds forends do not.