Which Remington/why?

[entropy]

Just out of sheer curiosity, what makes you think so? In essence we're not talking about anything else than a mechanism that has proved itself time and time again in semiautomatic rifles, with the exception that the force required to operate the mechanism is delivered by the shooter instead of gas pressure.

I know, it might be a more appropriate to digress with a thread of its own, but I'm quite interested in an objective, well dissected explanation to this point of view.

The Remington 740 and 760 series had several flaws, the most glaring of them being the weakness of the receiver relative to the bolts' hardened steel. The bolt would damage the internal rails it rode on due to vigorous pumping (760) or hot loads and vigorous hand operating (740). This would cause damage to the bolt head with it's 14 lugs. (Corrected in the 7400/7600 series-they went to more conventional lugs)

The 740/742 developed a reputation as a "jam-o-matic", and poor owner maintenance often exacerbated the problem, as the gas system must be run dry. Many owners lubed it, then wondered why it jammed. Quite often hot handloads were used in them resulting in the aformentioned rail damage. It is rare these days to find a 740 or 742 without some damage to the rails. It's less common with 760's but they often have it too.

 

[hq]

The Remington 740 and 760 series had several flaws

Oh yes, I'm well aware of these and they're extensively documented in a number of articles and forum posts over the years. I've even had a 742 at one time for a grand total of 10 minutes, which it took me to check the rails and realize that they're battered out of shape - my gunsmith tried to give it to me, I gave it back. However, 7400 (and 750) doesn't seem to suffer from that problem, 7600 even to a lesser extent because it takes a lot of manhandling for a long time to even damage a 760, making the combination of manually operated pump action and later type bolt by far the toughest design of all of them.

I haven't really found any discernible flaw in 7600. Strong, reliable, accurate and with some help from aftermarket, take-down switch caliber to boot. Even the barrel is completely floated, as opposed to rare but possible binding of the gas system in 7400, giving a slight advantage in accuracy potential. A pump rifle may not be to everyone's tastes but objectively speaking there's nothing wrong with the principle (and in this case, execution and function) either.

 

[FLNT4EVR]

Reply to question 2.....Remington...1100 and 870 Both in 12 ga for a shotgun.....model 700 in a rifle 6.5 X 55 .

 

[Paladin7]

The 870 is the pump shotgun to get.

As to the Model 700, I purchased the cheapest one I could find, an SPS in 7mm-08 because I wanted a Remington Action I could customize. I took off the crap stock and threw it away, replaced it with a Bell and Carlson Model, pillar bedded the action, free floated the barrel, installed custom bottom metal (more for aesthetics), installed a Timney Trigger, and mounted a Picatinney Rail, Leupold VX-3 3x9 Variable Scope and a Harris Bi-pod. This rifle now shoots half minute of angle with my reloads and is what I wanted to begin with. Is this all necessary, no, but it made me happy to do the work. I could have purchased another makers rifle and not had to do most of what I did to the Remington, but I like the Remington action, it is very popular for a reason.

As to the other Remington products...their QC has gone down in recent years, which is a shame, so I generally stay away from them.

 

[FL-NC]

Versamax in camo for turkey and waterfowl- light, reliable, uses all 12 gauge shells 2 3/4- 3 1/2. Remington Elliot single shot derringer cause its cool.

 

[mshootnit]

Versamax in camo for turkey and waterfowl- light, reliable, uses all 12 gauge shells 2 3/4- 3 1/2. Remington Elliot single shot derringer cause its cool.

Nice!

 

[Damon555]

My Mother purchased a brand new RM380 but had a little trouble loading the mags....So I bought it from her for what she paid for it. Other than the very long trigger pull this thing is a solid pistol. If I were in the market for a pocket 380 again it would just be a second RM380....no doubt about it. This particular pistol has never missed a beat....it has chewed through a few hundred rounds of various brands of ammo without a single issue for me. My mom did have a few ejection problems associated with a poor grip. The pistol does require a firm grip. But the vast majority of us will not have an issue.

 

[alsaqr]

Yep, one of my Ruger 10/.22 rifles wears a Weaver 2.5 power.