Jack O'Connor is correct.
The Rem 760 can be extremely accurate. If it has weaknesses it is a poor trigger pull as it comes from the factory (can be made better buy any good gunsmith, but never as good as the best bolt action triggers) and the same extractor failings we see on nearly every Remington center fire.
But if you look at how the 760 is made, it is a truly free-floated barrel and those barrels are usually VERY good quality. I have had many come into my shop for work (usually trigger jobs) and I have fired a lot of them over a bench. Don't believe the tales of them being inaccurate. it's not uncommon for one to shoot under 1 MOA.
Remington listening to people ask for up-grades to the rifle to improve the extractor and stone the triggers is not likely to happen, about as likely as Obama joining the Alex Jones Fan Club.
Now if Ruger (or anyone else) were to come out with a truly good center fire pump rifle I believe they would sell very well. Anyone that does this needs to pay attention to the details such as triggers and overall reliability.
No one "wanted" a desk-top computer at one time,,,,,until they had them offered.
I think a good pump rifle would be much the same, in that the market is there and nearly untapped.
There is no reason a pump could not be made to go head to head with a bolt action in reliability and accuracy. I drew up a design a few years back for one and it was not overly complex to make, but I never had the opportunity to make the prototype. I used an AR-15 trigger so I could drop in a Rock-River or a Timney in my rifle when it was done. That gives me a very good trigger. I want to use AR10 magazines too, so that problem is not a high hurdle either. They can be had in 5 round, 10 round and 20 round sizes.
My bolt face and extractor are similar to the FAL, but open bottomed like a 98 Mauser for controlled feed, but with a triangle head that rotates 60 degrees. Fixed ejector also like the FAL or the M-70 Winchester.
All in all it was a design that seems easy to make and should be VERY reliable, but now I have to pitch it to someone that could produce it. So far I have not done so. I had both Ruger and Mossberg in mind, but a friend of mine also suggested Savage.
But the idea of a good pump rifle that covers the needs of both left and right handed shooters seems like a very good idea to me. There is no reason at all I can't make one shoot as well as any bolt action sporting rifle. I think shooters would love it. Good for anything from white tails in heavy cover to mountain goats at 16,000 feet, to Elk in the Rocky's,
I hope I am not wrong.
I want to see it made in 243, 260 7-08 308 and 338 fed.