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I like long for caliber moderate speed bullets. I use the middle of a loading chart as my Max load and sometimes the start load is precise enough for me so I load a bunch and go shooting. Be Well, RZ.

Rusty, We think alike. More isn't always better. WN

If any will recall the late Don Zutz outdoor writer campaigned a 725 Remington bolt gun in 280 Rem his favorite load featured a 154grain roundnose Hornady for use on Wisconsin whitetails. Don't remember him talking much about other loads. I suppose he shot his share of ammo provided by manufactures like other writers. Mb

I'm going to work up a load for my 308 with either a 180 grain hornady or sierra round nose bullet. 2500 fps or so

So I figured I might as well bench that 7600 270.I.bought the other day with the $60 bushnell sharpshooter scope. I dug thru.my ammo and found a box of 270 brass loaded with wlr primers, 130 nosler solid bases, and 60.0 grs of 4831 from 7/90. It shot 12" left so dialed in a correction right and dial it to the right again. The 3rd is in the black fired 3 more to confirm. Those last 4 shots were in .695" at 50 yards. Looks like a shooter to me, shotgun trigger and all. Mb

MBob, An easy fix to the shotgun trigger problem is a new trigger spring from MCarbo. They even have videos that show you how to do it. Same spring works for 870's, 11-87, 1100's, 760's, 7600's. All my Remingtons wear them.

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WN, i have a load for a 1955 year model 760 in 30-06 with 165gr Speer flat base hot cor, it wears the same old Redfield 2-7 in weaver bases and rings it's had since i bought it more than 30 years ago, didn't chrono the load, only set it 2 inches high at 100, dont think it'll matter, just book charge of imr-4831, i dont expect to be let down with accuracy or performance this side of 200 yards.

That's about as American as it gets right there.

I decided to set one my 760's up with Skinners... Well, the rear sight went on great but after attaching the front sight base and drifting the bead into the base it popped outta the darned screw hole.. Oh well, I wanted a carbine anyhow, I'll send it out to the smiths, let him lop a couple inches off and reattach the front sight properly, versus me hamfisting it.

Thanks man, and damn the luck, you'll get it worked out i have no doubt, bitter sweet deal, the old homestead land i was going to hunt with my old bud on has been sold, it's okay, i still gave him the rest of the powder, bullets and primers his dad gave me with the rifle when i bought it over three decades ago, he's got it loaded up and said we'll hunt these old rifles and components somewhere else this year, so not all bad.

Thanks Whelen Nut I emailed them about an order. Mb

Beretz, I don't keep up with acronyms and slang real good. If you would , wtf is a skinner? Mb

Skinner is a brand of peep sights.

Here is your trigger fix.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/100532364?pid=631106

Thank you. Mb

Gunner, those old Hot Cores work very well with 4831. 2" high @100 should be the cat's ass! Each season I obsess over long range accuracy for Kansas only to shoot my buck at 50yds!

That's no surprise to me. My .270 7600 is a consistent 1.5" rifle at 100 yards with 130gr Federal blue box. It only wears a 1.5-4x Leupold so I'm sure that could be shrunk down a bit with more magnification and a proper bench. Typically I just shoot in the prone with a loop sling somewhere out in the desert. I did manage a 2" group with that rifle at around 275 yards last fall. It's the most accurate rifle I own, though that's not too surprising as my others are .30-30s and rack-grade ARs.

My 7600 was the butt of more than a few jokes among friends (all AK/AR guys) before they shot it. They changed their tune afterwards.

DeoVindice, match a dot to your reticle with the magnification set at 4x. A dot that's not much larger than what your reticle center covers at your zeroing range will help tighten groups at the bench.

LOL, that's about right WN, though not as bad as me on my first elk hunt, ho lee crap the stuff i read in gun rags about how tough they were..................

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