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I've always liked the Lyman 57.

I also like the Williams Foolproof because it has no protrusions to catch on brush and truck seats.

Fred

These Remington pumps are really popular in Pennsylvania because PA does not allow hunting with semi-auto rifles. In PA, they are the first choice of many for quick second shots. They are referred to as "Pennsylvania machine guns" or "Amish machine guns".

Some rattled and some didn't. Read that eventually they were given a spacer to eliminate the rattle.

I prefer the old style forend with the grooves in the carbine version. However, the stock had a lot of drop and metal or plastic on the buttstock which didn't make them all that recoil friendly.

One who knows how to work one, can throw bullets out accurately faster than with a semi. If that is important and it's usually not.

The forward push of the pump, once you get comfortable with it allows you to naturally use hand/eye coordination to go to the target. The semi just rocks back and up.

Oh yea, some shot crazy good. Don't know the why of it, but they did.

JB, That is a great article. My next purchase. How come I didn't get my copy in the mail until yesterday? (10-5-10) You guys are leaving me in your smoke!

John was out of stamps.

Haven't gotten the new RIFLE yet so I'm not sure if the M14's were mentioned. Here's a nice one in .35 Rem I have and another in .30 Rem is waiting to be reassembled after a good cleaning. No provision for a scope but the tang sight is good enough for my eyes.

One of favorite oldies.

I used to give my dad a bad time about his 7600 pump 30-06 telling him he needed a bolt to have a real rifle. Then, when he died, before I passed the rifle on to my oldest boy, I had the goal of killing a blacktail buck with it. I jumped a nice forked horn hunting in thick cover in a wash in northern Ca, and I missed on my first shot, quickly slapped another round in and dropped the buck. I sat down and just started laughing, and talking to my ole man upstairs above me..........so that's what you were talking about, huh Pops.. ...

My oldest has it now, it's his favorite rifle, and he just used it to take a nice cow elk in Utah. He love's the rifle, and it is extremely accurate.

I think I need one of these!

I've got one but I need a tang sight like that. Anybody know where I can get one??

If you think a 760 rattles try a Mossberg shot gun and they kill game by the ton

VAnimrod, if your 760 doesn't feed well from the newer style magazine, work some cartridges through it slowly and watch what's going on. My 7600 didn't feed well from either style and I tweaked the feed lip angle on my mags and now have no problems. Mine would feed from one side of the mag and sometimes missed picking up a cartridge from the other side. I adjusted the feed lips so the cartridges would rise up a bit higher under the lip. If you mess with the feed lips go slow and do a little adjusting at a time.

I have a 7600 30-06 (Early 90s model) that throws the first shot about 2-3 inches high usually. This is with a very careful, consistent rest. Subsequent shots (2-4) are nearly always under or just at an inch. Just wondering if this problem may be common & has a known cure..

I've tried feeding from the magazine, single loading without the magazine. Resting in various fore and aft positions.

I did just change out the stock to a 20 gauge 870 style & it can now be used with the irons without mashing your cheek into the sharp feeling, poorly designed, raised ridge on the factory 7600 stock (Composite).

When I had a M760 in 30-06, always shot it from the bench with the receiver sitting on the front rest, not the fore end. It's the way to bench these critters.

Never had a problem putting three 150gr Speer Hot Cor loads (57grs of IMR 4350) into an inch or less from the bench, thataway.

It feeds fine (actually, it feeds faster and slicker than a fat boy at an ice cream stand); the magazine, however is SLIGHTLY oversized and a royal PITA to seat and remove.

That, and it just don't look right.

Does anyone know who made Recoil Robs peep sight. I like it much better than the Lyman that is on my 760.

oulufinn,

The 760's barrel is supposed to be free-floating, as is the barrel in later 760's. If yours isn't, that may be the problem.

In some rifles the barrel may not float enough, especially toward the front of the forend. That was the case with my .270 760 mentioned in the article. I took off the forend and rasped the barrel channel a little deeper. It turned into a 3/4" rifle.

In older 760's relieving some of the pressure from the brace on the tip of the forend can help.

I bench-test all my 760's and 7600's with the forend resting on the bag, just as I do with bolt rifles.

My son and I have found a 760/7600 shot using an Uncle Bud's bull bag will hit 1" higher and right (for us) than if using a standard front rest. Our zero for shooting offhand or from field positions is better if a standard front rest was used to zero our rifles.

I've tried both ways & still slings first cold shot. Weird. Probably only fired it 40-50 times. Maybe I just need to shoot the hell out of it, heat it up & break the SOB in good..