yikes!!!!!!
I just saw pics of the Troy pump in this month's "Rifleman". Yee gads, that rifle has no appeal to me. While I'm at it, the tac-stock, mag fed Remingtons same same. To each his own, and those two are not for me.
I had a Rem .22 pump, the Fieldmaster I believe, and shot it so much, I literally wore it out. Always wanted one as a kid, and finally found a used one at about age 35, and shot the snot out of it!!! It developed some type of glitch where it would split the forearm at the shot, some type of pulse was coming up the action bar and jarring the forearm. The Fieldmaster was a long, sleek pump, and I always thought quite handsome. Mine was an early one with a slightly longer barrel, dovetailed front sight, simple wood, and the vertically grooved forearm.
Always been a pump shotgun guy, and have carried the 870 many miles, and trained with them at work too. I had occassion this spring, due to my own foul up, to need quick repeat shots on spring gobblers (not recommended) and the pump action came through and saved the day (twice!).
It would make sense to transfer all that time and experience with pumps over to a center fire rifle, but there are no pump rifles in my safe at the present time. I believe the act of cycling the pump forces the shooter to slow down just the wee amount necessary to be better "set up/lined up" for the next shot. It's pretty easy to bang one off with a semi when you're not quite "on". Maybe that's just me.
When I do get around to buying one, it'll be used, and likely from the 760 era. Likely a carbine, if I could find one in .308 that'd be the one, but most of the pump carbines I see are '06. The matte and synthetic LE model was in .308, but they seem scarce and pricey. I may well have to settle for an '06, and load it down a bit to make it less obnoxious in the carbine barrel. I was up in PA last month, and saw quite a few full size Rem pumps in the used gun racks. I suppose I could get one cut. There's no shortage of the later models.