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I am picking one up this week, and should have it by Thursday or Friday. Its a 7600 Carbine in .30-06, and I'm getting it for $225 shipped. Hopefully I will have some hunting stories of my own to add this year!

One of my dad's friends that I grew up hunting with shoots a 760 pump in .30-06 exclusively, it's the only rifle he owns. He shoots it open sights. I used to be his "clip boy" when we were on stand together. He was an incredible shot, literally anything within a quarter mile was in SERIOUS trouble, as long as he could see it. The only trouble he got in with the rifle and open sights was shooting deer or antelope at 300+ or 400+ yds because he could tell if there was headgear on small bucks. We butchered a few as soon as we got them back to his farmplace, if you know what I mean. He also made 4 of the most amazing shots I've ever seen with a rifle with that 760. The first three were on a group of pronghorns that spooked while we were stalking them. My dad didn't even shoot, but he watched Lester go at it. 6 shots later, all three antelope we needed were down, killed on the run. One in the head, one in the neck, and the other in the boiler room. We paced the distance off, 432 yds to the first antelope! The final amazing shot is something I will probably never witness again. We were hunting a drainage crick in late November for whitetails, walking the grass. We were pushing up hundreds of pheasants (central SD) and he got so fed up with only having a rifle with him that he pulled up on a rooster that flushed about 40 yds out. One shot and the bird looked a grenade hit it! We picked the bird up, one big hole in the back through to the breast, one big mass of bloodshot meat! Lester got that rifle for his 16th birthday, his dad shot a 760 in .35 Remington. It's the only rifle he's ever owned, and I can't see him changing anytime soon! I would NEVER want Lester shooting at me at a half-mile with that rifle, it might take a clip or two of ammo, but I'm sure he'd get me if he wanted to!
Selmer
PS Funny story from being his "clip boy", I remember when he filled a clip with only two shells. He kept pumping and pulling the trigger, saying "pow" "pow" every time he pulled the trigger. I asked him later if he always said "pow" when he shot, he wondered I was talking about, so I told him. He does it, and he's completely unaware!

I sold one in 35 whelen a few years back I wish I still had it.
I got magazines 2 or 3 I can't remember. anyone interested PM me.

te earlier post of the 300 savage is awesome!!! I'am still huntin one up in 06, still no luck but with gun season 6 weeks away here in WV I hope someone will get the fever fro a new rifle and part with one!!

This one favorite memory of mine and my 7600.I was about I think just turned 15 and me and my dad had drawn late season cow tags for here in Montana.
I remember it was x-mass vacation and was nearing the end of Dec and it was cold.
We left the house about 4 am on our 2 hr drive to where we hunted.On the way up the way up the old logging road we cut about 16 head had crossed the road.Dad let me off and I took to fallowing them in the snow(did I tell you it was cold?).I wasn't very tall at the time about 5 1/2 ft and snow was up to my but.I had gone about 2 miles and was over looking a large basin.This voice in my head said "right there" and I lookedto my left and about 1/2 mile away I saw 3 cows go into the timber.I quickly scrambled down there and started to work slowly through the trees with my 7600 held ready.I was about a 100 yds in the trees when I saw this big cow standing looking away.Shew was about 50 yds,I slowly raised my rifle and got a rest on a tree that was there and looked throgh the old bushnell 4x and put the sights on her head.I pushed the saftey off and pulled,the rifle recoiled and BOOOM!!! the cow colasped.At the shot the woods erupted with probaly 60-70 head of elk running every direction.I had cows an calfs running at me squaking and screaming I even had to wave my arms to stop elk from running me over.Just when it started to settle down I heard a loud POP,SNAP,CRACK!! behind me and I turned around and there was this HUGE!!! 6x6 bull,and in the cold air and the dead calm steam was coming out of his nostrils and rising off his back,he was like mear steps away.I think back that I could have reach out and touched him he was so close.He gave a big huff and was gone into the timber just like the rest.That day,that time,that rifle made me a elk hunter for life.Every year I climb the hills in search of that big 6x6 and I'm sure he is gone but that memory keeps me going.
BBJ

While I've never hunted with a Model 760, I've seen them in use and they're fine guns. My best friend owned two of them, one of which I found used at a local gunshop. He had this one made into a carbine. Both were in .30-06. Unfortunately, my friend passed away at age 51 and his two 760s, along with nearly a dozen other rifles, have not been out of their cases since about 1994. Next time I see his son I plan to ask him if he'd consider selling one of the 760s. He's not a hunter, never was, never will be. I'd love to take a deer with my friend Charlie's rifle.

760 fans might enjoy finding some older copies of Outdoor Life and reading up on the Larry Benoit family. There were a number of articles on their unusual and successful method of deer hunting in Vermont (or was it New Hampshire?). As I recall, the 760 was their favorite rifle. The articles ran in the early 70s or so.

I'll do that too.

IMTA!

I prefer turnbolts and self shuckers, myself, but I have seen these put to good use.

My first serious big game gun was a Rem. 760 in .270 Win. Sights were an old Weaver 2.5X steel scope. Killed my first (and only) black bear with it then the next day killed my first moose. This was around 1960 as best I can remember.

My first whitetail was also taken with this gun. It eventually got traded for something else I lusted after.

I also acquired in either 1971 or 1973 a Rem. 760 in .223 Rem. I kept that one for years because it shot so accurately. After I found it was not being used much any more I let it go to someone who wanted to use it as a coyote rifle. Every once in a while I do miss this one but then I take something else out of the safe and go shoot it until the melancholy goes away!

Jim

I used to collect rem 760's. Think I had them all, including an original 35 rem carbine. All the other calibers including 222 and 223. About 6 or 7 years I gave them all to my grandson except one, a 243 that will shoot well under an inch all day long.

Hey , the books you mentioned are :

Big bucks the Benoit Way ...... Benoit Bucks ... By Bryce Towsley .... excellent books .

Another is "My biggest buck " by Larry Benoit

The 760 , 7600 and model 6 pumps are very popular in maine .

Mine is a 35 remington carbine ... with the new hornady loads it is a solid 200 yard rifle which covers 90% of all shooting in my part of maine ... 5 feet beyond the end of the barrel to the other side of the power line !!!!

I've never had one, never had anything to do with 760's, not for any particular reason. The only 760 story I've got is about a friend of mine who had a "shoot out the window by the loading bench" set-up at his house. One day he was developing loads for a 760 in .270. Everything came apart suddenly and drastically. At some point, after picking himself (uninjured) and the pieces of the 760 up he noticed that his reloading manual was open to the .270 Weatherby pages. He always figured a gust of wind from the open window did it.

I bought a band new Remington 7600 35 whelen back in the early 90s. At the time I wanted the rifle for bear hunting here in PA which is done mostly by putting on bear drives through heavy cover. I wanted a fast handling & shooting rifle. Which it is! It has excelled at that type of hunting, being able to get on target and shoot accurately fast as a bear breaks through the laurel. I have taken two bears with it. Both while being a driver, not on post.

A few years back I decided to take it out for deer season. All I had for ammo was the 250 grain factory roundnose. They always shot well from my rifle. So I head out to a state park up North for opening day of buck season. About 10 minutes into legal shooting time I notice some movement heading my way about 75 yards out. I see a nice 8 point sneaking through some heavy cover. He takes 3 steps and stops. He peaks around some brush & looks my way. Through the scope I see the �Oh [bleep]� look in his eyes as he notices me��notice him! I put the crosshairs where the neck meets the chest & squeezed the trigger. When the gun came down from recoil all I could see was the white fur of his belly & all four legs up in the air twitching! The whelen literally bowled him over backwards! It was the quickest hunt I have ever had LOL. And a nice buck for public land.
Since then I have used this rifle to take somewhere around 25 whitetails, 2 bears & a coyote. I call it my �bang flop� gun because 99% of what I have hit has fallen where it stood. And nothing hit with it has gone more than a 10-15 yards before it went down for good. It has become my go to deer rifle because of it. They are great rifles.

I've never missed a deer w/ my 760 in 6mm. 6 shots for five deer. I hit one in the ear across a small ravine, next shot killed it. Great gun for the thick SW Wash woods.

Great gun. Plenty accurate and light.

I would chalk up hitting one in the ear a miss.

Have a 7615 in 223 ,don't know if it really qualifies. It is the police model with 16" barrel and black stock/slide and AR15 magazines. It is nicely accurate and handy beyond comparison. Parkerized finish, a totally PRACTICAL firearm.

Seems the man is working on a streak. I'd give it to him.

After all, I'd yelp if I got shot in the ear!

760 is a great weapon, I can't wiat till I come across another one, I'll be braking out the plastic and toteing it home!!

Here are a few pics of mine, a 7600 Carbine in .30-06. Its wearing a Leupold M8 4x Compact, and I removed the sights. You know, its amazing what a Remington front sight will snag on in the woods, so I take them off pretty much any gun that has them. I'll admit, the gun has quite a pop on the bench, and likes 165gr Sierra bullets. With the 18" barrel, I am averaging over 2600fps at the muzzle. I haven't had an opportunity to take anything with it, but I'm hoping I will this season. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite rifles, and has a fantastic feel to it.

Mmmm, 760/7600 carbine porn!!! I love it!!!

A 7600 carbine in 30-06 is going to be my next purchase. It should go well with my 35 Rem carbine.

Dale