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Great info here:
https://www.remingtonsociety.org/remington-model-760-model-7600-rifles/

I mowed grass all summer long and saved and saved until I was able to tell a family friend with an FFL that I had enough money, $275,It was 7600 in 30/06. At the time I got it I hardly weighed 100lbs and the thing felt like it weighed as much as I did. I couldn't afford a good scope so I did have to wait until the next summer when I got a Vari-XIII 2.5-8x Leupold from the same guy for $165.
That first season I hunted without a scope. The very first day I took it to the woods was opening day and that evening killed my first deer with a rifle, a spike buck. That rifle was stolen.
I hunted with a left hand 25/06 for several years and the found i had an addiction to Marlin lever action rifles. Many years after my 7600 was stolen I read (on line) that Remington was ceasing production so that convinced me to get another. When I learned that Grice had some made up for them in 35Remington and 35Whelen I decided that I needed one to commemorate my first centerfire rifle. My local FFL had my 35Rem 7600 carbine. (18.5 barrel) I kept it unfired for about a year then sold it to finance something else that I don't even remember. Fast forward>>
Summer 2018 I decided I needed another. This time I wanted one with the white line spacers and the impressed "checkering." I had a LH 3 0/06 M77 so I wanted to do something a little different than before and found a late 1980's 35Whelen on an auction site and made it mine. I had taken the scope off of my original 7600 - 30/06 and had it on another rifle when the 7600 was stolen. So I was once again with a Remington 7600 and put my very first scope on it---the Leupold 2.5-8x. I've had it for a couple seasons now but it seems like
deja vous---------the first day..... the evening hunt..... a spike buck!
I hope that this 7600 and I are together a long, long time

Goat

Sorry to hear about your theft.

Thieves are SORRY ! !

I despise a Thief.

Good Luck with this 7600.


Jerry

I have a 7600 35 Whelen that’s been a pretty good shooting rifle. Took a couple deer with it two seasons back using the 225 Sierra with H4895 for an even 2700 FPS.

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Old doe I took at my pops place.

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I always wanted to grab that 280 carbine of Bobby’s when he got tired of it. The good thing is now our mutual buddy Matt has it and a few other 280 7600’s so I managed to talk him out of one of the 280’s.

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I threw an older 2.5x8 on it and had some leftover 280 rounds from a bolt gun I had. Well, as with moth of them, it shoots just fine.

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Pretty happy with it. Stock is pretty shiny for me, but I’ll dull it up some this coming fall

Great thread fellas. Read the whole thing from the get go. Good to see all them big bucks and cool rifles.

Thanks for the link

Tag

I enjoy target shooting & hunting with these 35 Remingtons:
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/galleries/14606300/35-remington-141

Hanco they feel and handle just like a pump shotgun only more accurate. My favorite is a remington model 14 in 30 rem. Handles and points better than a 94. With the corkscrew magazine you can use spitzer bullets but have to seat them a little deeper.

Rusty Zipper I too have a1905 9x56. I use Speer 200 grain round nose that I swage down to .356 about the best I can do with open sights with my old eyes is about 3" at a100 yards. That's still minute of deer in the wood around here. I traded a remington 750 in 35 Whelen for it. Would like another wheels but won't give up the 1905. Anyone who owns a Mannlicher knows these rifles have a soul.

RGK that is a beautiful rifle with a nice scope. Perfect woods rifle. Good hunting. Have you blooded it yet?

My first rifle was a 760 308. I have 8 of them. Going to send one to be re- bored and re- chambered to a 358 win. They are extremely popular with the guys I hunt with here in central Pa.

Heck...in Pa the Remington 760 is the state flower or pictured on the Pa state flag...or so I've been told.

Please tell me you don't have Holden Ironsighter mounts on them.......... You're right about that being the weapon of choice in Penn's Woods though.

My bud bought three 760 in .35 rem.
All had see through rings.
One for Michigan, one from Wisconsin and one from Pennsylvania.
WTF

As the ranch slowly transitioned from horses and saddle guns to pickups and scoped rifles it seemed natural to switch out the Winchesters for the pump '06.

My first was a well worn hand-me-down rifle rack version with Tasco 4x and a cracked stock that had been pinned and a thick coat of polyurethane applied. Slung over my shoulder it'd sometimes drag over an occasional unnoticed volcanic rock that peppered the Big Empty. Of course it didn't fit me; not even close and it kicked me like a sum bitch. That one was when I started to dislike mag boxes because at that that age I was misplacing the dang thing and rummaging around looking for it.

But a few years later I took my money and bought a new one and boy, that was one sweet shooting rifle that I used for everything from coyote control, to tidying up after errant hunters that I guided. There's not a lick of bluing left on that one.

I've been trying to find one in .35 Whelen for several year. They are scarce down here in AL. My pops killed many a deer with on in .284 that had an old school fix powered Redfield Lee Dot scope on it.

MS9x56 you have good taste in rifles and much class. The gun, the caliber, minute of deer requirements. It all tells a lot about a guy. A better hunter gets closer and doesn't see from how far away he can shoot an animal that deserves a quick death. Have a good one and Be Well, Rustyzipper.

Does 12' qualify me for a 'better hunter' ?

Well then, 402 yards does TOO. That is as CLOSE as I could get ! harummp !

My first rifle was a new 760 308 that my grandfather bought me. They are extremely popular here in North Central PA.

My first rifle was a new 760 308 that my grandfather bought me. They are extremely popular here in North Central PA.

They are (or were) popular in the Adirondacks of NY. My father had a 760A in 30-06 that he purchased in 1953. When he stopped deer hunting due to heath issues, he gave it to me. He passed away last July at the age of 92 and in the fall I used it to take a 6 pt. I have several deer rifles and rarely used it but every deer I've taken with it never went very far. It was always been accurate enough for Whitetails in the close cover that he hunted. I think it is now retired.