southernhunter
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looking to buy one .must be a carbine.if any one knows where one might be for sale .thanks
7600 pump carbine
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FULLDRAWXX75
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Check Grice Gun Shop, they have the largest selection in PA.
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ShamrockIV
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My old man has one is 308. he has had it for 30 years and loves it
southernhunter
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i had the chance tobuy one a few months ago but passed ,wish life had a rewind button lol.thanks guys i'll keep looking
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Hogbear
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ShamrockIV said:
Ditto my 81 year old father. He killed 3 this year with it. I was surprised just how accurate it is.
ShamrockIV
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Hogbear said:
he was saying he would neve sell his. we bought it at bill goodmans when i was about 7 or 8(about 1980). a reporter for the tennessean stopped us in the parking lot and took our pic and put us in paper. dad has the clipping and it is really special to him!!
alwaysoutdoors
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I had a 760 in .30-06 that I wish I would have kept. You don't see too many for sale used.
stilllookin
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I had a model 6 pump in 270 that would group 3 shots in one hole a 100 yards. Thought I had to have a 700 bolt gun. NEVER should have sold it. I know where the gun is but guy won't sell it back.O well.
southernhunter
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is the 760 just as good as the 7600 i saw one cheap on gun broker ??
Hogbear
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southernhunter said:
Just the older version. It was called the 760 from 1952-1980 and then the 7600 from 1981-present. I'm not sure what the changes were to the 7600 model, but I know guys with 760's that they bought back in the 60's that are still working just fine.
On a creepy related note, we took the MIL to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis yesterday and they have James Earl Ray's model 760 that he used to shoot Dr Martin Luther King on display there. He had bought a .243 and returned later to exchange it for a .30-06 because he had been "advised that it was a better caliber." That's a big part of the theoy that he had handlers telling him what to do throughout the assasination and escape to Europe.
FULLDRAWXX75
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Hogbear said:
Correct,
The older models were much better built, they were meat & potato's guns, the newer versions are lighter and in my opinion cheaply build in comparison. The same goes for the 7400/740.
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My uncle owns and shoots a 760 in 270 that he bought used in 1974. My cousin shoots a 7600 in 30/06. I currently own 6 of the 7600. As far as being cheaply made, I would disagree. The only difference I can for sure tell between my uncles 760 and my 7600's is the trigger assembly. I sent all of our trigger assy's off a couple months before deer season started to have them worked. that was the only difference I could see in them. All of mine are wood stocks except for 1 synthetic in 243 I just bought. I have already camouflaged it and ready to Coyote hunt with it. It is sweet to shoot, hardly no kick at all. It took 5 shots to get the Leupold Rifleman sighted in at 100 yards. It is on the money now.
southernhunter
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huntinman sounds like you really like the 7600 .for that matter seems every one i talk to does ,i had no clue they was that high in demand. thanks for the web site been checking it every day its a cool site
southernhunter
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funny you all say that .a older hunter that knows alot about guns was telling me that same thing the other day
I will admit that that is a fault of that gun. One of the 7600's I did buy on Gun Brokers has a rattle in the forearm. I don't know what is involved in fixing this issue. The others I own seem to be just fine. the Carbine I bought in early November is as tight as a brand new one. I wouldn't suggest buying one used, except face to face. Still love them, regardless.
southernhunter
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found one guy is asking 450 ,its a 30/06 carbine black on black as he called it. has a simmons scope and exta clip
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Been look'n at the 7600s for about a year now, I like the idea of not have'n to take the gun from your shoulder for the next round, love to find a carbine model in 30-06 before next deer season, nice dark bluing and walnut stock would look great.
southernhunter
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ok found a 7600 but it has the synthetic . any one be interrested trade for a wood stock
You can buy custom wood stocks from Boyds. I bought a Thumbhole and a forearm for around 100.00. It didn't have any checkering in it, so it has that slick feel to it. I put that one on my 270. The stock for the 7600 will be found under the Remington 870 for a 20 gauge. I think they have discontinued the forearms that look like the 7600 forearms, but the 870 forearm will still work. Or you could keep the synthetic look and do a custom camo job like I did.
southernhunter
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so let me get this right a 870 stock and forearm with fit the 7600 ?? i hate synthetic
southernhunter
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so let me get this right a 870 stock and forearm with fit the 7600 ?? i hate synthetic
FULLDRAWXX75
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huntinman said:
You can go to these site:
www.gun-parts.com/remingtonstocks/
www.brownells.com
They both offer a wide variety of stocks.
FDXX75
You can also go to Boyds Gun stocks.com, or you can call them. Their website has all that info on it. If you ever put a 870 and a 7600 side by side, you can definately see the comparison. I just remember reading something about having to buy the 20 gauge stock in order for it to work properly.
southernhunter
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thanks for the advice and help every one ..
