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Here's an older 760 at the LGS. Looks like a factory left hand stock. Never seen or heard of that variation.
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That rifle is a 760 BDL that Remington made in 270, 308, and 30-06 from 1966 thru 1980(?).

They differed from the usual 760s in that they had pressed basket-weave style "checkering", a raised left or right check-piece, and a "step" at the top/rear of the receiver.

I own or have owned them in 270 and 30-06, but don't recall having seen any chambered in 308.

jwall,

Fyi, a LARGE percentage of executors couldn't care less what caliber that a rifle is (I get most of my rifles that way or from garage sales.) AND anything but "naught six" is deemed "worthless" by a considerable percentage of hunters here.

I got my .222 & .280 REM Model 760 rifles "for peanuts" at garage sales, as "You can't hardly find shells for those weird things."
(Fyi, even the pawnbroker that I bought my "as new" 760 in .244REM, said, "I don't know what you want that thing for. I can't find ammunition for it." = He sold it to me for 60 bucks, in 1966.)

Btw, my niece, TARA, borrowed the .244 until I got tired & told her to "Just keep it", about a decade ago. - She gets her deer with that "oddball caliber" more often than I do. = BORN HUNTRESS, is our Tara.
(She calls it: "PURR-fectly GIRL-sized".)
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yours, tex

I suppose one could just swap out the stock to a RH 760 308 if they wanted that "variation".

Do the LH 760s have LH safeties as well?

I really believe that if bullets would have been as good back when the .244 first came out there may never have been a 6mm Remington. Back then unless you had a 100 grain bullet you were apt to lose your deer. The lighter bullets weren't constructed well enough for larger game as they were made for varmints. Now days bullets are just better. 80 and 85 grain bullets at 3300 FPS MV are great whitetail medicine and they would stabilize well in a .244 Remington barrel.

Of course now days with the long range craze not even the 1:10 twist rate of the .243 was usually given back then is acceptable for that crowd. Even 1:9 is not enough to stabilize the long 110 grain and up special low drag bullets. But for what I use a .243 for the 85-100 grain bullets work fine.

I suppose one could just swap out the stock to a RH 760 308 if they wanted that "variation".

Do the LH 760s have LH safeties as well?

I want to thank Whelen Nut and Skane on the guidance they gave me last year with the 7600 I had worked on.
The rifle worked very well in the woods and I had a 10pt opening morning at 125yds that dropped like a ton of bricks. The big 9pt came on Thanksgiving with a different rifle.

Looking at a very lightly used 7600 carbine at a shop near my office. It's not had a scope or even sling swivels mounted. It's a newer model, which is the only reason I haven't pulled the trigger on the deal yet. It's priced well.

Here’s the real question...

760 or 7600?

Haven't you pulled the trigger on that yet ?

Per your ? about 760 or 7600, obviously - IMO - both are very good. I have friends who have had 7600s for years with NO problems.
Myself, I always bought M Sixes and no regrets.





I have had a couple of 760s, one I rechambered to 35 Whelen again NO problems with either.

I personally like/prefer 7600s because of appearance and the new bolt. Other's MMV.


Jerry