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I've had a nitch to fill for years when I stupidly traded a 30-06 pump Remington 760 that was a favorate for a bolt gun in 270. being a south paw, it felt good and shot great!! Hunting thickets fro Deer and Bear this weapon gives you a second fast shot and if needed a third!! I bought a 444 Marlin to replace the nitch but still hasn't filled it ,so along with looking for a 25-06, and a Marlin 35 Remington I now have to find me a 30-06 in a 760 pump. Please anyone post stories, pics of your favorate 760 and commits. I know who has mine that I had, I would love to have it back, but he won't part with it so I have to settle on finding another one!!!

Thanks

My son has the 760 30-06 I had. He bought me a 7600 7mm-08. IMHO there's nothing better in these parts. Every deer seaon from 1977-1991 I used my 760. My first deer, first buck, longest shot, and first running shot I used my 760.

Shot my first deer as a kid with an early 760 in BDL grade chambered for 244 Remington. Still have that gun, but don't lug it around anymore having since found that it is a rather scarce piece. Shot very accurate (consistant 1 to 1.2 inch groups) with handloads utilizing Sierra Semi pointed 100 grainers and 4831. With no forend pressure maintains zero as well. If the clip looses spring pressure or the feed ears get sprung, will jam. Keep a fresh clip in the rifle. They also don't like to be pumped slowly and quietly and will often jam if you do so. Trigger pull is a bit heavy, but manageable. Was the answer to my needs back then as I'm a lefty and pheasant hunted with an 870. This stroll down memory lane makes me want to take it out again.
dan

I shot a three shot group with my dads at 100 yards and covered it with a half dollar. the 760 is a very accurate rifle. They rattle a little to much for me. They were the demise of a lot of whitetails over the years.

The 760. My first deer rifle was a used 760 I purchased in 1962. My Dad shot a .300 Savage in a 99 Savage so when this rifle in .300 Savage showed up at a local sporting goods store, I purchased it so I could reload for both rifles. And when my brother started hunting, he also purchased a 760 in .300 Savage giving me three rifles to load for. A friend of mine had a Herters reloading outfit and all I had to do was purchase .300 dies, bullets, powder and primers and I was ready to go. All three rifles shot a load featuring 41 grains of I-4064 under a 150 grain Herters bullet very well. I switched to Core-Lokts then Hornady or Speer 150 grain bullets and I-4895 powder and again these bullets and powder proved to be an even more accurate combination in the .300. I shot my first whitetail with that rifle and quite a few after that before starting to experiment with a variety of different calibers in bolt action rifles. I also shot several mule deer in Wyoming with the rifle.

I still have the rifle, but have not hunted with it since the late 1970's. Like Pat85 indicated, they rattle and as a result I have not had the urge to go hunting with it. I have shot it on occasion and it still shoots darn good. I have a Remington M700 Classic in .300 Savage that fills the bill when I get the urge to bang away with a .300 in the deer woods!

I shot my first buck in 1990 with my dads 760 gamemaster its a .270win my younger brother also shot several deer with this rifle its put many lbs.of venison on the table over the last 20 years and is still a tack driver but we've retired it from the deer woods so now it's a conversation piece but every once in a while we take turns on some targets with it. There's alot of good hunting stories and memories scratched and worn in the stock and on the barrel of that ol' pumper

Killed my first 3 PA whitetails with a 760 .270 Win and steel tube Weaver. Still have it.

Jeff

A guy I used to work with, and a first time hunter borrowed a 760 Rem to go hunting with for his first moose hunt. The idiot who loaned him the rifle gave him a small paper bag of ammunition for the thing and so he loaded up a mag and on opening day of moose season went out after moose. Very soon after daylight, he saw a calf moose, put the mag in the rifle, racked the action, aimed, shot, and the calf fell over -- stone dead.

He tried to cycle the action to get the spent casing out of the chamber and it was locked up solid. He removed the mag and the next night at work told me about it. I tell him to bring the rifle in and I'll see if I can get it unlocked.

Long story short -- I used a strong cleaning rod to give the action a sharp rap, and out pops the brass rolling across the floor. I go over and pick up the empty and comment, "Nice little 308 Winchester." He goes, "Nope! It's a 270."

I explained to him the need to make sure the ammo fit the rifle. The next year he borrowed the same rifle, and shot a nice cow in the head at 175 yards. Guess it never hurt the rifle but . . . . . . . . SHEESH!

Not an old story about the 760 pump that has shot alot of deer but a new story. I'm a 35 caliber nut. A few months ago I noticed a NIB Rem 7600 Carbine 35 Rem and had to have one. I thought the price kind of high because of the Grice special run. A member had told me of one that was on auction arms so I took a look and purchased it at a buy now price. Since this purchase, a campfire member had one for sale with box, trigger keys, manual and spare magazine for less then the price I paid for the first rifle. I snatched it up quick. Now I have 2 18 1/2" barreled carbines in 35 Rem. It goes well with my Marlin 336 and can load for both the pump & the lever gun. What a nice rifle and accurate too boot. At 50 yards it put 2 of my reloads in the same hole. Hope to drop whitey with it.

Ken

One of these years, a 760/7600 in 9.3x62 will just have to get done. Slick rigs, those Remmy trombones.

I wonder if one could make a Garand work in 9.3...

Yep, you could. Simple rebarrel/rebore, and you're good to go.

I had a loud mouth and the range shut his beak on the spot after he saw my target. I have the Remington 760 (30-06) that Dave in WV mentioned earlier on this thread. With 165gr Nosler BT handloads, I shot my first one hole group. Just so happens that M760 is a tack driver (no I can't do it all the time).

I had a 760 in 257 Roberts that I let get away from me and still very much regreting the loss of that rifle.

It shot very well with Hornady 100gr bullets.

Doc

My dad's first deer rifle was a .257 Roberts 760 in the late fifties. He killed a pile of deer with it and then "retired" it in favor of a bolt.
I have used it several times and found it to be surprisingly accurate. Rattles a lot, but as a lefty it works well for me.

stumpy

Don't fret. Those things are a dime a dozen. Not really a hard gun to find if you "looking".

Go get one. You won't be sorry.

Tom

I had a buddy who got his guns arrested when he got to africa due to some paperwork problem. The guide let him use a 30-06 760 carbine that took all the plains game he hunted w/ 220 grain round nose bullets.

I picked up the 1952 vintage 760 in 300 Savage shown below on a lark several years ago just because I like the cartridge. It must not have been used much because it doesn't rattle at all. With handloads I worked up from my Savage 99s, it will consistently place 3 shots right at 1 MOA. It has a nice trigger, but it has to be the most awkward action I've ever tried to use. This is the only pump action I've ever had, rifle or shotgun, so this thing is truly unique for me. I wish some of my other rifles were as accurate as this one.

Back in the 60's a buddy had a 760 and I looked down my nose at it as I had a 'custom' bolt rifle (P-17 30-06). We were at Lymans 200 yd range and his pump shot just as well as my rifle.

On the other hand just a year ago I had picked out a spot on private land, where others have permission, for opening day. I got there in the dark, on time, but someone was in my spot already. As I walked up to him he got up and told me that he was leaving. That his rifle was jammed! It was a 760!

I hunted with a Remington 742 in 30-06 for about 25 five years until the rail inside the receiver wore out. I shot about 35-40 deer with the 742. Remington had a trade in program so I got a new 7400 also in 30-06 for about 300 bucks and the 742.

About this same time I hit a terible dry spell. I did not kill a buck for about 6-8 years! Killed several does with the 7400 but was buckless!

In the fall of 2003 I read on this site about the Grices special run of the 7600 in 35 Whelen. Boy that got me going! I called Grices but the Whelens were all gone. The told me about the 7600 carbine in 35 Remington so I bough one. Did not get a chance to buy a scope that year so I hunted with the 7400. In January I called Grices again and they had a Whelen that someone did not pick up! Had it shipped to my FFL who did a layaway with it.

Fall of 2004 came around and I hunted with the carbine with a Nikon 2X7 prostaff. Don't know why but I used a O/U scope mount on the carbine. Just looked right. Killed a doe with the 7400 again. Had not made friends with the 7600's yet.

Fall of 2005 came and I was armed with the 35 Rem carbine and the 35 Whelen now scopped with a 3X9 Nikon Pro Staff with Warne return to zero scope mounts. I had sighted in both guns and spent several hours with both guns shooting offhand, sitting, kneeling, leaning against a tree, ect...so I now felt good with both guns. Both guns were sighted in with Remington 200 grain bullets.

I elected to use the 35 Whelen on opening day. Killed a small spike on opening day with the Whelen. One shot to the neck at 60 yards. No great feat of marksmanship nor much of a challenge for the Whelen but the dry spell was over at least!

Two weeks later killed the bigest buck I ever saw in the woods with the 35 Rem carbine. I very good eight pointer. One shot to the heart at 80 yards. Never so much as flinched.

2006 came and there were no doe tags in my area, buck tag only, never saw a buck.

2007 came, doe tags were back, so were the deer. Killed a good six pointed on opening day with the 35 Rem carbine. Shot him in the neck at 60 yards. He fell down but when he tried to get up I shot him in the same whole in the neck. This time he stayed down. He dressed out at 165 lbs, good size for my area. Three weeks later I killed a doe with the carbine.

Boy do I love that 35 carbine. Carries well and hits hard. It is my go to rifle.

I have since bought 7600's in 25-06, 257 Roberts, 30-06 carbine for my son, 7mm-08, and this year 6mm Remington. I traded the 25-06 with cash for the 257 Roberts so I don't have that rifle any more.

The 257 Roberts and the 7mm-08 Remington are all ready to go this year. Both carry 3X9 Nikon Pro Staff scopes with Warne return to zero scope mounts. Had trouble with the Federal 120 grain in the 257, too long for the magazine, sheared the nose of the bullet off. The 257 is sighted in with the Remington 117 grain bullets and the 7mm-08 with the Remington 140 grain bullets. I shot both rifles several times over the summer so I feel good with both.

Last year I set my sons 30-06 up with a Nikon 2X7 Pro Staff, Warne return to zero mounts and sighted it in with 180 grain Remington bullets. He was away at school so he only hunted Thanksgiving weekend and did not even shoot the gun.

This summer when he was home we spent two days at the range and he shot the 30-06 with both standard 180 grain loads and the managed recoil 125 grain loads. He is not a big guy so I thought it wise to start with the managed recoil loads first. Turned out to be a good idea. He enjoyed the mild recoil and worked his way up to the standard loads.

My younger son is a big guy and he has adopted the 35 Whelen. Has no trouble shooting it but has yet to kill anything with it.

So I'm all 7600's now. Only question is which rifle for opening day. I'm leaning towards the Roberts but it is going to be hard to leave the carbine home.

MIKE.