I love pumps (slide actions) !!!!

Nice find. :top::top:

T.S.

 

Anyone else have or had the carbine version and loved or hated it???

No, but I had the standard length and wished it was the carbine.


Vooch

 

Congratulations!

 

Great find! Glad you got the one you wanted.

 

Nice$

 

Nice carbine enjoy!I have a week spot for the 7600 rifles.Have had many 760 rifles and carbine's over the years.
I just sold a 1960 30-06 760 carbine last week that was in excellent condition.

 

Great looking 760!

 

Nice. I've always liked the BDL with the basket weave stock. I just never bought one. Maybe someday.

 

they are common here. and no one buys em. one of my LGS had 3 760s for months before they sold.

 

I've got a 760 carbine from 1979 that started life as .35 Remington. It was rechambered to .358 Winchester before I horse traded for it. Been my favorite deer hunting weapon since 1980 and I've taken 19 Whitetails with it and one with my custom 700 short action which has been rebarreled to .358 Win. Also have a Ruger 77 I bought new in .358 Win a few years ago. The remaining 20 Whitetails I've taken have been slain with various other calibers such as 6mm Rem, 30-30, .32 Win Special, .308 Win, 30-06, .300 Savage, 7x57, 35 Rem, and .35 Whelen. Also have two Remington 7600 pumps, one in .35 Remington, and one in .300 Savage. Both are limited run models sold by Grice Gun Shop in Clearfield, Pa. I have a Remington 141 from 1938 in .35 Remington and a 572 Remington pump in .22 rf.

358 Win

 

I have my Dad's standard size 760 .30-06 made in 1953. Dad, myself and my 2 sons have all killed our first deer with this rifle. I would LOVE to have a 760 carbine to go with mine. Congratulations!

DRSLYR

 

Very nice rifle

 

Congratulations on your find she's a beauty.

I have two standard length, one in 35 Rem and one in 300 Savage,
and then I have a short Model 141 in 35.The two 35's shoot great,
haven't shot the 300 yet.

Like them all.

 

Never had but one 760. It was a kind of beat up .223, but it was a half inch gun with factory ammo. I never really appreciated what I had shooter wise because of the appearance. I surely should have kept it but it was ugly. I now realize that beauty is more in the performance than in appearance..

Every one that i know who shoots 760s are happy. Not so with the 742 and successors.

best wishes,

 

Every one that i know who shoots 760s are happy. Not so with the 742 and successors.
best wishes,

Yes, from what I understand, the rails of 740/742 were prone to peening/wear resulting in considerable jamming problems.

I love those! I like the older ones with the round corn cob forend. I wish I had one in 300 savage. but until then my Remington model 14 carbine in 30 rem. will View attachment 454074 View attachment 454082 have to do.

Wow, that model 14 is a beaut!! Original stocks?

Those Benoit boys sure know how to use them.

Boy they sure do! Legendary tracking and shooting skills. Spent most of my life hunting Maine and any kind of tracking in the northern part of the state is incredibly difficult to well-nigh impossible for mere mortals. swamps and grown-in logging areas as dense as brillo pads. They make the impossible look easy.

 

You never see them, long or short, down here. I used to want one to convert to 35 Whelan but have a bolt one I love now. Now a 760 carbine in 358, hmmm. Sounds like a great gun.

 

I love those! I like the older ones with the round corn cob forend. I wish I had one in 300 savage. but until then my Remington model 14 carbine in 30 rem. will

have to do.

 

Those Benoit boys sure know how to use them.

 

when I started hunting everyone in my camp had a pump action. Mostly 760s and 7600s, but there was one or two 141s around as well. My uncle is the only one I know that has the carbine version though.
I gotta say, there's more than one occasion when I've contemplated turning my 280rem into a carbine.

 

These photos show my former 760 BDL in .308 that I had to sell when I was laid off my job. This rifle was accurate as well as attractive. It was sold for $600. in 2008.

TR

 

I have a Rem 760 in 35 Rem but it isn't a carbine. I was happy to find one in that caliber at a decent price.

 

My local gun dealer has around 15 Remington auto's and pumps lined up, some carbines, standard, several of the older models and newer ones, it's pretty neat to look at the differences and they can vary a lot between older and newer. He even has a few in the short action cartridges 308 etc, the short actions cartridges are even more rare in my area, I don't know why he has so many of these at this time, they generally move pretty fast. The auto is built similar and is a great hunting rifle, if Remington scaled that down to a 7400 in a 223 rem in the past it would have sold good, not sure it could compete with the AR15 now...

 

Very nice! I've been hoping to find a good deal on one. But have been thinking of finding a decent older model and having it chopped.

I was reading "Big Bucks the Benoit Way" the other day, the author mentioned that they preferred the older model 760s for the lower comb. They pretty much only used iron sights, mostly a peep sight. The newer model 760s had too high a comb to use the iron sights. There was some story about how one of the sons had bought a newer one, chopped the barrel and had to shave down the comb to get it right.

 

I've had several 760s and 742s as well as the newer models. The only BDL I had was a carbine 742 in 30/06. It's the only one I ever
bought new. I was very disappointed with 742s of all descriptions. I have found that 760s will out shoot 742s for accuracy. The 742s
are lucky to do 3" at 100 yds, I've seen 760 do a 1" at 100yds. I went back to 14s & 141s in .35 for my woods guns in pumps. I had
244, 308, 30/06, 270, and 35 in 760s they all shot reasonably well for woods deer guns. The demand for them must be regional, the
last 760s and 742s I had brought $300 after dragging them to many shows. I have standing orders for any 35s from relatives and
friends up in PA. Pic is not good, it's 742c BDL from back in 60s.

 

Congrats!

 

At one time, the 760 Carbine in 308 Winchester was the standard rifle of the U.S. Border Patrol. It matched the 870 shotgun we used.

I also had my own. Very accurate and never jammed.

 

Congratulations on your rifle. My father-in-law had the same rifle in 30-06 for many years and it was his favorite go-to hunting rifle.