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Neighbor gonna sell some guns to make some salary cap room for a swimming pool.

Has a Rem 7600 synthetic in .243 will sell me for a good price. Have no interest in a .243, but am thinkin would make a handy woods gun in .358 with a Leupy 2.5-8x36 I have laying around.

Anybody have a 7600 in .358?

I don’t but my brain would is tracking the same as you. 338 Federal or 358 Win. Send it with 250 bucks and I’d bet it’d be awesome. Ask for a 1-10 either way.

Maybe chop to 20” and you have a wicked handy killer.

Whelen Nut has a 760 that was reamed from a 35 Rem. Don't recall if his is 20" or 18" - I think the latter.

I read recently in the link below that greenmtndave has one.
New England Deer Hunters Zeroing Thread

If the rechamber and rebore is done right one-shot deal, lots of them end up with to much headspace! Had one won't do it again.

I had an old 760 in 35Remington rechambered to 358Winchester. It was an easy conversion. Just rechamber and plug in a 308 mag.

I'd rather have the 760 in 35Remington these days.

Someone on here has one....RustyZipper actually....he bought it from OlRufus on here. I know because I almost bought it from OlRufus...just as I was about to commit, I was notified that I won an auction for a 7600 Whelen carbine. To further the story...I traded RustyZiper my synthetic stock for that guns straight comb wooden stock.



I believe it was a JES reborn and cut to 18 or 20" if I recall correctly.


I have a 22" Whelen with a scope. I wanted a carbine for a ghost ring for nasty weather tracking and still hunting.

I have the same ones myself, a 22" Whelen with a scope and a carbine. A fella can't have enough Whelens

A, mornin. I had a real nice rebarrled one, cousin has one that was a thirty five R.E.M. re chambered, unfortunately I let mine slip away. Great all around gun for deer, bear or ????. GWP. 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦

I love .358W.

I have data if you need it.

I have one that was a .35 remington to start with and had Gander Mountain ream it to .358 Win. - it is the carbine version and is a very handy and accurate rifle (kinda had second thoughts when I saw what the original unaltered .35 Remington carbines have been selling for 🥴!!). I’m a .358 Win. slut though and think that this cartridge is seriously overlooked by most.

PennDog

I have a 7600 in .358 Win. It started life as a .243 with 22" barrel and walnut stock that I bought new specifically for this project. I had Nathan Chesney at Hillbilly Custom Rifles here in VT do the conversion 10+ years ago using a 20" match grade Krieger barrel. I added a trigger job and black Kick-eez recoil pad cut to keep the stock LOP. So far, I have only run Hornady 200 grain factory ammo through it with very consistent results. It wears a Leupold VX-R 2-7x33 Firedot scope.

I previously owned factory 7600 carbines in .35 Rem and 35 Whelen, the .358 Win was an itch I had to scratch.