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Never liked any Remington pump, but would have bought that one

OEM Factory rolled "engraving" and HARDLY anything from the "Orient". You CLUELESS Fhuqktards are a hoot though! Hint.

The Reupold Ruse is HILARIOUS too.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!.............

Nice find, Jason! I hope you enjoy it for many years.

The rear sight was definitely changed at some point, I can still see a faint line where the elevation piece would have been in the sight assembly.

You scored a unique 760. Congrats !

I like that. I’ve never owned a pump rifle.

I will agree it looks like a PX rifle engraved after the fact in Japan. Both front and rear sights are non-original. It is a nice gun. I used to run into guys carrying those in the woods hunting deer in PA; some were even more elaborate with a lot of inlays of different materials, and all were veterans and had the work done in Japan in the 1950's. Again, nice gun!

That is nice. I believe that hole in the magazine was only used the first 2 years of production.

I'd buy another "user" mag and put that one away.

Nice find.

Very interesting and cool gun Jason, never seen one like that.

Date code of RYY puts the manufacture date at November 1952, a first year production gun. I have a March 1952 first year production gun, in 30-06.

The front site is definitely original, rear site looks like a Williams replacement. The original rear buckhorn sight on those guns were either replaced with a flip down model like that or just removed because it interfered with the scope mounting. I'm not sure, but I think that Remington did start drilling and tapping 760s in late 1952. Mine I know was drilled & tapped by a gunsmith.

The scope bases are what bothers me, the front base appears to be a #35 which is a front base for a Remington 700 and the rear base you have there is probably a #36, rear base which is higher for a 700 also. I don't believe Weaver ever made a 2 piece scope base for a 760. The correct one piece base number is #62 and if you are fortunate enough to have a Pivot Ring setup the scope base (again, 1 piece) is a #162.

Either way 760's are great guns and that one is way cool in a way cool caliber, best of luck with it.

My first rifle was a Remington 760 6mm Remington bought for me by my parents in 1973 with the condition that I had to share it with my other 4 brothers. Of all the rifles I bought and sold I wish I still had that one....
I have owned many Remingtons in my 63 years. Now they have gone away as we know it. I am saddened. Remington was a great Institution. Americana. The oldest Firearms manufacturing company in the USA. Think about that.
You found an American Treasure! If you don’t take it hunting, get up with, I will.

I noticed that. I've already pulled both bases, not sure why they were using two different heights. The base in front fits correctly, so two #35's would be fine...I likely have another one in the drawer, I'll check once I get back home. I have an extra Leupold Vari X III 1.75-6x, but really want a simple fixed Leupold or newer Weaver K series 4x.

There is a pretty good thread in "Deer Hunting" started by MagMarc called "Pump Rifles and deer".

You should post a few pics in that thread, I'm sure the guys would fine your gun unique and interesting.

No, it's not factory rolled engraving, you goofy twit, but I can't comment as to the background of the engraver.

The engraving appears to have been done with an electric engraver. While it's not real high class engraving, it's better than I could do! Some of the markings are, of course. OEM rolled markings and this is probably what confused our little Alaskan. The scope bases are incorrect and need to be replaced with a #62. GD

Very nice find... If I still did any hunting in Pa. or W. Va. I had decided to have some of those.. But those days are over.. Enjoy!!

If the assembly date code is K YY, K would indicate May and YY would indicate 1952.

B-L-A-C-K-P-O-W-D-E-R-X are the only month assembly date codes used.

Cool old rifle. During the 1950's and 1960's a lot of American military personnel posted in Europe had custom gun work done for pennies on the dollar. My Father had several Winchester 12s, 70s, and 3 88s highly engraved for next to nothing in Austria and West Germany between 1950 and 1965.

That is a cool old gun and this is a strange coincidence. I just took one of these to my LGS and put it on consignment for sale. This afternoon. It too is a .300 Savage. Mule Deer forced me to buy this a few years back with and article he wrote about these pump rifles. I never shot it myself but my BIL mounted the scope and sighted it in right in my front yard. I watched and it was very accurate. It is in good condition but, of course, does not have any engraving. I believe the sights are original and it has a cheap scope mounted on it. The serial number is in 190K range but it does no have a letter prefix or suffix. I wish I had a pic. I know these are valuable because the feds have now outlawed Amish machine guns.

When were the Remington pump guns outlawed?

I'm not sure he's serious...or maybe just misinformed?



Please don't encourage that guy to respond...I've yet to see any thread that wasn't ruined once he became involved.