Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting BRAND NEW 7600 vs 336ss vs BLR for Northeast

Sounds like Mikey74 and Blackfart are pissing in each other’s corn flakes...and eating em.

Nah, it's just big azzholes like you bring out the best in some of us.

jwall, ,

Some of our forum members know ZILCH about collecting firearms NOR could care less about collecting. = IF there was actually 300 pieces made on special order, that is a TRULY rare firearm.
(I've also heard that Cherry's ordered 300 pieces but never received but 100 total. - SOME sources say that VERY FEW, like 10-20 rifles were made before Remington canceled the contract.)

yours, tex

True. I detest the very notion of safe queens.

Funny...you calling someone an ass hole.

I've had all of the above. All will work, but none would be my choice anymore. A compact bolt action with an 18-20" barrel in a short action cartridge with a flat shooting, accurate cartridge will weigh less than any of those options. If you choose the optics carefully it will weigh less with the scope than the others with iron sights. It'll be more accurate and can cost less too. Flat trajectory, pinpoint accuracy, and a very good scope make it a lot easier to shoot through holes in thick brush and see game in poor light.

You're only going to get one meaningful shot, might as well make the best one possible. Getting off repeat shots is fine if you're providing covering fire in the military, but is not a concern when hunting. And with practice a bolt action is just as fast for repeat "AIMED" fire as any other action.

I would go bolt action in what ever caliber you prefer. I've never been a fan of lever or pumps, other that a Savage 99! Just my two cents!

Mike74,

Actually my hunting guns were mostly in fair-bad shape when I got them & thereafter were refinished/repaired.
(I wouldn't want to take a nice/expensive rifle into the brush country or into the swamps near Caddo.)


I just cannot resist an incomplete or "needs work" rifle IF its bones are good. = My current project ,a 760 in .30-06, started out as a 100 buck mess but it shoots GREAT, = I'll have several (maybe 20) hours of handwork & another 50 bucks in it when it's completed & looking well as it shoots again.

Btw, a 7x57mm round is far from useless. - It's one of the favorite calibers of the commercial hunters in the Northern European nations for reindeer, caribou & moose.
Any number of polar bears have been killed by the old-school round, too.

yours, tex

It was a nice looking one, EXCEPT someone put a pad on it. Still didn't last long at $900.
760 .257 Roberts

Good lookin' rifle, Dave.

Ahhhh yes, provincial pete, always the voice of veracity and reason.

Was that yours?

I had one in 7mm-08 as well. Of course I sold it. I did get a few porcupines with it.

Tom,
The one in the pict (with the deer) is a 30.06.

I have a 7600, had others, had an early BLR in 358, Have a Marlin 30-30 (and other calibers). Do not have a Henry.

All would work well, I suppose. The 7600 is hands down most accurate - 270 was a 1/2MOA for 5 shots, 30-06 was < 1 MOA for several loads, but deer at 100 yards doesn't require better accuracy than almost any rifle.

My pick would be the 7600, but honestly I think it's personal taste. Have you shouldered these rifles? Any feel "best" to you?

I have all three. Pick the one that feels best to you and put a receiver sight on it for 100 yard shots.

I wouldn’t buy new.

I’d get a JM stamped Marlin 336 30-30 ( pre Remington purchase). The best design feature of the Marlin 336 is that you can clean it from the breach ( and very simply). Can’t do that with the Rem 760/7600, or Browning BLR. Not sure about the Henry.

Yes, you can get more powerful cartridges in the Rem 7600. But, for your 100 yard distance, it doen’t make any difference for deer hunting. If you want a Rem 7600, again, I’d look for a good used one from before the Rem/ Marlin merger.

In the end, get what you want. All your choices will be able to take a deer at 100 yards.

tzone, yes it's mine. High Brass bought it for me from Grice.

I thought the "new" 7600s were going to have a lower comb to better use the open sights (if that is important to you). I have not seen one in person to know for sure.

JDK - The older 760's had a lower comb and more drop in the butt stock for a better "sight picture" with "open sights". However, with their "skinny" metal butt plates and all that "drop", they were also rather "unpleasant" in the recoil department in the bigger (more powerful) calibers! While the 760 had a different lock-up system than the 7600, they were well made firearms IMO.

I was thinking new as in brand new. I thought I read somewhere that they changed (or were) changing the butt stock on them.