Danny's Pump-Action Rifle - 760 GameMaster
Added 2019-04-11 19:32:10 +0000 UTCDanny's vintage rifle.
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I've got a model 742 auto-loader chambered in .243 and has a 2x Redfield scope. My Dear Ol' Dad bought back in the early 60's. When I was old enough, it became mine to hunt deer with. Every year, a few days before the season opened, we would go out to the Rod and Gun Club to put our rifles on paper to make sure the still functioned correctly and were still sighted in. Every year I would fire 3 rounds at a target 100 yards away, loading each round individually (instead of using the magazine), then put 3 rounds in the magazine and shoot them at a different bull's eye on the same target. Then, before we even went downrange to see the results, I would wipe down my rifle, run a clead, dry patch down the bore and put it away (a thorough cleaning was done later at home). Every year it was the same. 2 neat little groups of 3 holes, and each group could be covered by a quarter. That little gun will still drive tacks.
Bear Barre
2019-04-14 02:33:18 +0000 UTCMan my buddies grandpa has a 22lr pump we use CB caps cant even hear the thing at all. It also never misses a beat never had a malfunction with her either
Mike Mcauliffe
2019-04-12 12:34:48 +0000 UTCYeah, it's not just Hollywood that has called magazines, "clips". I have seen them call magazine "clips" in old gun ads, etc. And I have heard a LOT of gun people call them clips over the years. Just a slang term for magazines as far as I am concerned.
TAOFLEDERMAUS
2019-04-12 01:22:04 +0000 UTCLove it! I've got the 760 in .270, dated '56. Yours looks like it's in better shape than mine.
Bill F.
2019-04-12 00:07:18 +0000 UTCI have had, since the mid-'70's, the semi-auto version of this rifle, also in .30-06 - the 742 "Woodsmaster." The lines of that rifle, just as for the 760, qualify as industrial art: clean, elegant, well-proportioned. The interesting thing to me is that - if you look either on the box in which it was packaged, or on Remington-branded spare magazines - the word used to describe those magazines is "clip." On the box label, in fact, it's described as a "clip magazine/22" barrel/.30-06." I mention this because people hyperventilate when they hear the word "clip" used to describe a removable magazine, but there you are - fresh from the mouth of Remington itself. The 30 round magazines for the WWII M1 Carbine were also known colloquially as "banana clips." Hope that doesn't "trigger" anyone's sensibilities. Nice rifle, Danny.
George Steele
2019-04-11 23:36:34 +0000 UTC!952...You know that's a good shooter. BTW , I have a semi-automatic, double barreled , single shot, pump action 12 gauge. If anyone want's it I'll throw in the 50 rd clip for free... hahaha
TheOKWoodsman
2019-04-11 20:51:27 +0000 UTCI have always had an entirely irrational affinity for these Remingtons.
Philip Schreiner
2019-04-11 20:11:34 +0000 UTCIt has a box magazine
TAOFLEDERMAUS
2019-04-11 19:53:21 +0000 UTCDo you have to use hollowpoints or ballistic tips due to the tube mag?
Dr. Strangelove
2019-04-11 19:37:57 +0000 UTCtoo bad he didn't grab a 150rd drum during Freedom Week
Andrew
2019-04-11 19:33:51 +0000 UTC
