Remington Model 7600

Dead Aim

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This year is going to be my first year to go deer hunting. Im looking to buy my first rifle and i want a quality gun with power and speed. Ive been looking at the Remington Model 7600 which is a pump action gun in 30/06. Its not the calibur but the action and brand of the gun that im asking about. Is a pump as good as bolt or lever and is remington a good brand for this type of gun? Also is it possible to get larger round mags and if so for how much. thanks for the help
Dead Aim
 
My first .30/06 was a Rem 760 (One model earlier than your 7600) pump gun. It is a very accurate reliable rifle. Very good choice for a woods gun in states where semi autos aren’t allowed for hunting.
The barrels are free floating and accurate enough for varmint hunting. I took a lot of woodchucks with mine using light bullets when I lived in woodchuck country.

Ram Line used to make 10 round plastic magazines which weren’t very good, in my opinion. I tried a couple hard to find steel magazines, but was unable to find one that fed reliably. If you find any, I’d appreciate knowing where I can get some.

I’d suggest picking up a couple of 4 round mags for spares and forget about the larger mags.

Incidentally, Remington’s semi auto series, the 742, 7400, or the mod 4 are fine rifles as well. The mags are interchangeable with the pump gun except the auto magazines have a bolt catch feature built in.

The .30/06 is a fine choice of caliber as well. Bullet variety is awesome. You can load it to hunt anything on this continent.
I normally load 130 grain to 165 grain bullets for deer, depending upon whether I'm hunting whitetail or mule deer.

Enjoy your new rifle :)
 
Yeah, what Bottom Gun said ....

Mine's an old 760 as well & couldn't be happier with the accuracy (has done 1/2" at 100 with Fed's Premium 180 Sierra SBT/factory load & that's plenty good for me) & it really is amazing the speed one can shoot these rifles ... the forward pump brings it right back down into sight alignment once you get the hang of it.

The factory 4-rounders are quite fine for any hunting application but I'd like to know of a source of quality 10-rounders as well.
760/7600s'd make a dandy PC "assault rifle."

& can't go wrong with the 30-06 = about the widest range of bullet/load selections for anything on the continent (perhaps the world) with suitable bullet & placement. I would want something a tad heftier for dangerous game ....

Dittos on "enjoy."
 
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