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Love that Marlin Steelhead.

Sorry. I don't own any. I don't want anymore either. There was a time where it seemed everyone in PA carried one. I had a few. I've since learned levers suit me better.

Mike74,

Differing opinions (to quote my grandfather), "- - - - are what causes horseraces."

As a southpaw & a longtime pump shotgunner, I prefer pump-rifles over any other sort in several calibers from 5.56NATO to my treasured 9.3x62mm, that Jessie at JES reformatted for me.
(My 07/1954 Model 760 will cut one ragged hole with 180 grain hunting loads at 150M, presuming that I do my part.)

Note: My early 760 in .244REM is even more accurate than my .300SAV. = My niece, who now owns it, is DEADLY with it at any reasonable deer hunting range, using 90 grain JSP. - Tara calls it "the lazer".

yours, tex

For 100 yards or less and picking from the 3 rifles you mention, I would pick the 336 in 30-30.

If you don't mind expanding your options a little....

#1 - Ruger American in 7.62x39. Uses mini 30 mags and can get cheap plinking ammo. Great option for 30-30 like ballistics.

#2 - Marlin lever 45-70. Can use leveRevolution ammo for whitetails or you can use tons of other good ammo for everything else in N. America.

#3 - Ruger 77-44. 44 mag is a great deer cartridge and it would shine at 100 yards and under. My son has a 77-357. 125 grain JSP made a quarter sized hole coming out of a deer at about 50 yards. Did such a good job, I bought me one. 44 mag would be more recoil, but still not bad.

#4 - Ruger American in 450 Bushmaster

28 consecutive seasons on my 7600. If it rattles, you're doing it wrong. Growing up on a pump .22 I had lots of practice with the motion. I'd say 9/10 there's no need for a second shot and I usually don't rapid reload so I can catch my nickel case. Only thing, now that I'm getting a little older and slower and clumsier I wish it were the carbine version.

I'm a southpaw too. Probably the only pump that could still tempt me is a 760 in .244 or 6mm.

That's ALL that matters. I have what I like and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

I once got a Super Redhawk with the 9 1/2" bll on the recommendation from a friend. He loved his....................
I didn't care for THAT long of barrel.

WE only need to please ourselves -> -> BE HAPPY.......BE HAPPY ! !

Jerry

jwall.

SPOT ON. = It also has a great deal to do with how skilled that the hunter/marksman is.

One of the hunters, who I knew for 4 decades until his passing, shot ONLY a Winchester Model 1910 in the "obsolete" .401WSL caliber for deer hunting. = R.D. "Bugs" C_________ was a very skilled still hunter & nearly always was the first of our leaseholders to get a WT each season.
(The .401 has a VERY distinctive report that goes "BLAM" & when we heard that sound, usually an hour or less after the opening of the season, we knew that we would be eating chicken-fried venison, gravy, biscuits & fried potatoes that night.)

yours, tex

Found a newly listed 760 in.257 Bob on the Cabelas gun library website last night. Was listed as "pending" this morning.

As far as 760 vs BLR vs 336, I'm a big lever fan but for a pure killin' machine a 760 carbine would be tops on my list.

Maybe shrapnel purchased it so he could tell everyone about his new "Creedmoor".

tmitch,

WISHING that I had seen the .257 Roberts first. = It's one of 2 calibers that I don't own.
(The other Model 760 caliber is 7x57mm & there may have been as many as 300 made by Cherry's Sporting Goods in the 1960s. - I cannot afford one, IF I could find one.)

yours, tex

I have a relative who has every caliber made in the Remington model 14, 14 1/2, 141, 760, 6, and 7600. He spent a lifetime collecting and he's now in his 80's.

Mike74,

He ACTUALLY has a 7x57mm?? = WOW, I'm impressed.
(A friend at the Remington factory has never seen one "in the flesh", in 25+ years of working there.)

Note: An auctioneer from New Orleans told me in 1996 that he knows of a 7x57mm that once sold at auction for over 12,000.oo.

PLEASE ask him for the barrel-date code & SN.


yours, tex

I ain't asking him for jack shidt. He's in is 80's and poor health. I don't know anything about any stupid a$$ 7x57. I saw his collection 25 years ago and some I remember and some I don't. I didn't know Remington was ever stupid enough to chamber such a [bleep] cartridge. If I found one I'd rebarrel it to something decent. Now piss off.

Whoa, now you're gettin the hang of it.

I think this place is doing it to me.

as a gun dealer and have shot and owned them all ,my vote would be a 7mm-08 BLR S.S. best accuracy and one of the better short action deer cartridges,with a clip

Here's another one that's not forced to guess. We must pardon him for having the luxury.

WOW !

"I don't know anything about".....

"I didn't know".....



You just told us........ okay.





I'm NOT a 7X57 aficionado..... but in modern firearms it's about the same as the 7-08 ! !

BUT to have a modern Remington pump in 7X57...............makes it a REAL collector item.


Jerry