I think the main reason for the 760's popularity in Pa. was because semi-autos were not allowed for deer hunting.
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Really hard to find them in nice condition. They were extremely popular around here along with the 740's for deer drives. I see a lot of them around used in gun shops but 90% of them look like they got drug behind a truck or the owner was allergic to oil or cleaning. I recently looked at one that was green from muzzle to chamber from corroded copper fouling. Never seen a rifle that bad.
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The one with the pad is my grandfather's, well was. When I got it I was told it wouldn't hold zero. The poor old Weaver, I wonder if the pipe wrench marks on the ocular adjustment had anything to do with it? My grandfather was a little rough around the edges, and in the middle, too.
I bought an EGW base but have yet to get a scope for it. It wore the customary See-Thru rings, I would have left them if not for the brutally massacred screws and scratches. Presumably from the "Fixing" of the start of my line. The EGW rail is perfect in fitment, but there's something about a nineteen fifty four Seven Sixty that needs to have the iconic See-Thru high-rise ring set. Not completely useless, but less than necessary, especially with an Aught Six, still they just go hand in hand.
The one above it is another Thirty Aught Six I found, scared and alone, in a little closet of a gun shop, north of here. Hardly any use on her, nearly perfect and one thousand numbers and one month newer than Grandpa's. I couldn't just leave her there. Even if she doesn't have the drill and tap for a scope mount.
The scoped one I bought from a late employers wife. A nineteen sixty two vintage Two Seventy. As a lefty, and notorious cheapskate, he found he could use a pump just fine. Until he had a left handed rifle made just for him. She sat above the wood stove unused ever since. Every time the crew would be invited out to the cabin I would admire her. I saved her from the grandson's pawning abilities last year. Whew!
The FieldMaster is also from that purchase. A youngster, born in seventy two. Eight years before I was. Much smoother than I am, too.
She now takes residence with her sisters, warm and cozy and dry, in my nice, wood smoke free and lighted safe. I like to think they are much happier with me, even if they only get used on paper. I will take Grandpa's out deer hunting one time, to say I've done it, like he, two uncles and my father have done. I hope that one day my little bear will take her out for a date in the cold of mid-November, if only once, just to be like his dad.
The one with the pad is my grandfather's, well was. When I got it I was told it wouldn't hold zero. The poor old Weaver, I wonder if the pipe wrench marks on the ocular adjustment had anything to do with it?
My grandfather was a little rough around the edges, and in the middle, too.I bought an EGW base but have yet to get a scope for it. It wore the customary See-Thru rings, I would have left them if not for the brutally massacred screws and scratches. Presumably from the "Fixing" of the start of my line. The EGW rail is perfect in fitment, but there's something about a nineteen fifty four Seven Sixty that needs to have the iconic See-Thru high-rise ring set. Not completely useless, but less than necessary, especially with an Aught Six, still they just go hand in hand.
The one above it is another Thirty Aught Six I found, scared and alone, in a little closet of a gun shop, north of here. Hardly any use on her, nearly perfect and one thousand numbers and one month newer than Grandpa's. I couldn't just leave her there. Even if she doesn't have the drill and tap for a scope mount.
The scoped one I bought from a late employers wife. A nineteen sixty two vintage Two Seventy. As a lefty, and notorious cheapskate, he found he could use a pump just fine. Until he had a left handed rifle made just for him. She sat above the wood stove unused ever since. Every time the crew would be invited out to the cabin I would admire her. I saved her from the grandson's pawning abilities last year. Whew!
The FieldMaster is also from that purchase. A youngster, born in seventy two. Eight years before I was. Much smoother than I am, too.
She now takes residence with her sisters, warm and cozy and dry, in my nice, wood smoke free and lighted safe. I like to think they are much happier with me, even if they only get used on paper. I will take Grandpa's out deer hunting one time, to say I've done it, like he, two uncles and my father have done. I hope that one day my little bear will take her out for a date in the cold of mid-November, if only once, just to be like his dad.
Yeah, 760's are often really beat up because these are rifles that guys bought to actually USE. They're not the rifle that guys bought to brag to others about, keep in safes and just take out to the range occasionally. They're like the Remington 870 of rifles...
I have a clean 760 in 30-06 from the 50's that has the barrel lug for the pump tube. One of these days I'd like to pickup another later model in 308 or 30/06 without the lug. They're lighter and have a better balance. I also have a model Remington 141 pump in 35 Rem.. Both are neat and interesting rifles.
Each to their own, I guess, but I have no use for "See-Thru" rings on any rifle, let alone on a rifle stocked like early Model 760s were, with their low drop at heel dimension more appropriate for the factory irons than any scope. Forget about getting a natural cheek to stock to scope aiming point and start on a neck-stretching regime.
I think it may have been Leroy Thompson that wrote an article about the 760 series for whichever annual he used to write for (Gun Digest?) where he joked about the 760 having something of a split personality because it was possible to make it a good fighting rifle with a ten round magazine. He appeared in the article in a photo where his face was half black and half white (which made me think of Frank Gershwin in the worst of the old Star Trek Original Serie episodes)
I sure thought those 7615 were going to be more popular than they seem to have been when they came out. Unfortunately most places that do not like ARs don't like their magazines as well and cost wise even during ban scares ARs tended to be out there that were cheaper
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I sure thought those 7615 were going to be more popular than they seem to have been when they came out. Unfortunately most places that do not like ARs don't like their magazines as well and cost wise even during ban scares ARs tended to be out there that were cheaper
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