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My 06 deluxe carbine. Both of mine wear trijicon accupoints now. They point and shoot better then any other gun I have ever shouldered. Target acquisition with the accupoints single post reticle is just awesome in the big woods.

Nice ones bring a pretty fair price. If it's in good shapeIf you and get it for $500 or less it's probably pretty fair.

Good stuff.

Nice rifle Mallard!

t, thanks..

Mine too! :>)

I used one of these:

http://www.barnesgunparts.com/remington-7400-7600-760-740-.html

Thanks for the link.

A little bark and muzzle jump Tom with the carbine?

Being something of an accumulator, I find myself with 3 of the 760 BDLs with the basket-weave "checkering" in hand and 1 in the process of being purchased. I have been thinking about sending 1 of them to JES to be rebored/rechambered to 9.3x62, with the idea being that a 286 grain 0.366" bullet might be a DRT woods elk gun.

I grew up with them and was the oddball who carried a Ruger M77 30-06. I did inherit my Grandfathers 760 which is worth more than gold when I think of seeing it leaned in a corner of the kitchen amongst the orange clad men gathered for coffee after hours during hunting season. Miss those days. I try to take it out atleast once a year, just because. Did take a buck with it last year, no monster but meant alot to me. The more small game hunting I do with my wingmasters, the better the 760 shoulders for me.

For those who handload for them, do you load them down a grain or so? I've had good luck with 165/180 SP, but want to find a good 180 Round Nose load. Tried Hornadys with 760 and got bad results. Got some Cor-loks to try this winter.

Had to have one after watching and reading the Benoit/Blood books and DVD's a few years ago. Haven't had it out in a while, had a lot of fun with it I need to do it again. Someone asked about the trigger . I had mine reworked by a guy on EBAY it still has a lot of creep but it breaks at about 3 lbs. Only takes 2 pins to remove the trigger group.

Now thats a nice big woods deer.

Thats also been my experience on the re-worked triggers...lighter, but still pretty creepy. If I wanted a good trigger, i'd prolly opt for the timney kit which gets great reviews.

Another note on the older 760s; the factory rear sight is a gem, adjustable for windage by turning a screw. Not like the newer ramp sight similar to those found on the older ADL 700's.

Long time ago, an old neighbor of mine sold me his 760 Gamemaster 30-06 for $100.00. It had iron sights, with the five diamond pattern forearm. Seemed fairly well taken care of for being a late 1950's production. Put a scope on it and damn I was amazed at how accurate that gun was!!! After a while it seemed pointless to load the magazine, because it was a one shot drop rifle against whitetails.

The other thing I liked about it was how easily it could be broken down for cleaning. I even once put a 20 gauge 870 youth stock on it to shorten the LOP for a smaller shooter to practice with; stock mounted right up like it was made for the gun.

One of the first things I done was to redo the original rear sight on my 760 by cutting the sight from the base and brazing back a full buck horn from a donor sight in it's place. Wasn't really anything wrong with what as on there but I just liked the buck horns better.

They were the foul weather rifle of their time. Hard to kill and oil rag kept them running. Always liked them better with a peep vs a scope. Have often thought of picking one up and hunting it that way.

Question: Did the .308W and short cartridges have a shorter action than the .30-06 length cartridges?

You know, not as bad as you'd think. It has a pacmeyer pad on it that tames it down. My boy shoots it without any issues.

Battue -

The actions are all the same, including the pump handle movement range.

The magazines are the same OAL but the followers are different for some cartridges.


Jerry

Randyr,
Try taking out the trigger return spring and clipping off one coil.
whelennut

Sometimes I am serious but not very often.
We have moose and black bear to hunt here not just deer.