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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.
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tzone, not real bad... My cousin is in pretty bad shape and I would buy it because it was his.. Last time I looked it over, the bore was excellent, but there was light finger print rust on the receiver and barrel.. Any idea what would be a fair price?? If I were going to be hunting in Pa. or W Va. like I did 15 years ago, I would be more interested.. Thanks .. 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.
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Good stuff.
Nice rifle Mallard!
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My Remington Model 141 in 35 Remington handles beautifully. Mine, too! Mine too! :>)
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A little bark and muzzle jump Tom with the carbine?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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?
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A little bark and muzzle jump Tom with the carbine? 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.
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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.
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Randyr, Try taking out the trigger return spring and clipping off one coil. whelennut
I like to do my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger! There is only one kind of dead, but there are many different kinds of wounded.
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Sometimes I am serious but not very often. We have moose and black bear to hunt here not just deer.
I like to do my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger! There is only one kind of dead, but there are many different kinds of wounded.
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