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Thanks for the help. We have a 7400 and a 7600 and will try it on both!

I recently started looking for a 14 or 141 in 35 Rem.
Anything in particular I should look at on these models?

Thanks,

Cousin had one of the old styles in a .270. A good shooter and he piled up the Deer with it. Had some drop to the stock and with no recoil pad it kicked more than a little.

You guys have me thinking about putting a .308W together with a straight stock, red recoil pad and a peep.

You should do it

My brother received a 760 270 in the early 80s for Christmas. He's a lefty and dad thought it would be a good rifle for a lefty. He has killed a ton of deer with it. He killed a trophy dink with it opening day this year

I had a williams peep on mine, but lost too many opportunities on marginal deer switching between rifle to binos, then to rifle and there gone...

Have a weaver classic 2-7 on there now and like it. Do like the way it carried with the peep though.

Have a leupold 3x that would also be a good fit. Should have said a straighter comb stock and not just a straight stock.

An 870 trap stock would bolt right on. Sand it down for a good fit with the peep along with making the LOP shorter and it should fit well. Trim the barrel to 20 inches and it should make a nice woods rifle. Need to find a .308W with a nice barrel.

That would make a heck of woods rifle. If you do it post plenty of pics.

I've owned a couple dozen 760/7600 rifles and, for me, the middle to late 1960s vintage 760 with the basket-weave "checkering" has the stock design that is the most comfortable to shoot. Since the pump stroke is the same for all cartridges, I would respectfully suggest that the common as dirt 30-06 would be easier to find and less expensive that the same rifle in 308.

Lots of guys shot Remington pump guns in the upper Connecticut River valley when I was growing up and by a wide margin they were chambered in 30-06.

If you need to use a scope, find one that's already D&T'd. There are still plenty of nice ones around if you're patient.

Great rifles....back in 1955!

God can't even make the triggers decent!!

Love this picture and the buck! That's pump country.

battue, if you get up to the Clearfield area, Grices usually has about 15-20 used Rem. pumps.. I usually look them over when I am in the area.. If you don't find what you are looking for locally, I can check there in March if all goes as planned..

And they don't just work in the big woods.

Scott,
7600 in maybe a Whelen?

Apple doesn't fall from the tree, eh?




The 30.06 is still my favorite rifle in the lot.

Nope and well done

WCH,

Will check their web page or call and see what they have. This is just a screw around project that has been floating around for years. Odd to be a PA boy and never owned a 760. 😀

If you are going to be there in March, it isn't that far of a trip for me, so give me a heads up.

Try taking it to a gunsmith.

Great pic, awesome buck!!

What are the advantages of having a straight grip vs. a pistol grip on a pump gun?