Pump action center-fire's

But it can be understated!

Pics, dammit! This thread is useless without pics!
You're right. These are cool rifles.
Got my 760 from a forum member. He says "I'll put a bsa on there and boresight it no charge."
Me; Ok. Sweet. That'll get me shooting.

So I get it back to the range and it pops the 4" steel at 100 yards no problem. I keep looking for a reason to change the scope, but it's still on there and still hitting 4" circles. When/if it blows up I'll do something like a Nikon or Vortex. This gun rides on the atv and it ain't gettin a Zeiss.
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When I was a teenager, all the kids who were trying to be cool thought that a 742 in .30-06 with a big ol' scope was what you had to have to kill our local non-existent deer. I was the oddball that preferred the 760; specifically the carbine in .308, with irons. Never got one. The kids who were already cool without trying were using Marlin 336's.

Lately, my centerfire pump-action wants lean more toward one of those reproductions of the Colt Lightning, in .357 Mag, please. But I'm probably too tight to spend that much.
 
When I was a kid my pops had a 742 carbine in 30/06 with a television screen Redfield on it back when we didn't have any deer around to shoot at, he musta been a cool kid. I loved those 760s too though!
 
1950's 35 rem gamemaster for the win.
Carries like a lever gun, points like a Lazer.
This thread has huge potential.

Grandpa had a pair of 'em. I got the .300 Savage, my brother got the .35 Rem

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Love some of those old pumps yall have posted!

I did a bunch of work for Troy Industries several years back and they gave me one of their pump AR-15s. It shoots great, but it is a handful and extremely slow running an assault course.


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Love some of those old pumps yall have posted!

I did a bunch of work for Troy Industries several years back and they gave me one of their pump AR-15s. It shoots great, but it is a handful and extremely slow running an assault course.


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That is a very versatile rifle.
Full house 5.56, then drop down to subsonic 77gr heavies for quiet time. I like choices.
 
That is a very versatile rifle.
Full house 5.56, then drop down to subsonic 77gr heavies for quiet time. I like choices.


It is fun to shoot and very accurate. It is also extremely well designed and built. The butt- stock is super trick...

I like your ammo ideas. Im gonna get some 77g stuff and mess with it. Thx for tip!
 
You're right. These are cool rifles.
Got my 760 from a forum member. He says "I'll put a bsa on there and boresight it no charge."
Me; Ok. Sweet. That'll get me shooting.

So I get it back to the range and it pops the 4" steel at 100 yards no problem. I keep looking for a reason to change the scope, but it's still on there and still hitting 4" circles. When/if it blows up I'll do something like a Nikon or Vortex. This gun rides on the atv and it ain't gettin a Zeiss.
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I miss that rifle. Handy little bugger.
 
Don't forget the Browning BPR or Savage 170 rifles.

CD
I have a BPR in .308, love it. Have see thru rings with receiver mounted peep sight under 2-7 scope. Took a nice 8 Pt from the ground at 18 yards on a PA hillside.

PA was the state that made pump rifle sales, semiautos were illegal for decades. Remington sold more pumps in PA than most other states combined.

As an aside I worked up a BPR load with 220 round nose Sierras, MOA at 100 and mimics the Krag ballistics.

Added a junior cousin recently - Rem Fieldmaster which is a dream to shoot.

And dont get me started on all my lever guns . . . Semiautos are fun but levers and pumps are a hoot !!
 
Being left-handed I've liked pump rifles for a long, long time. I've owned about five Remington 760s and currently have a .30-06 carbine made in the mid 60s. With a ten round magazine it can send some lead downrange pretty quickly.

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I once had a Timberwolf in .44 magnum that a friend talked me out of, wish I had kept it. I also had a Taurus Thunderbolt in .45 Colt that work flawlessly, one of the few apparently.
 
Any of y’all have a line on short action 760 magazines? I’ve only got 1
 
Being left-handed I've liked pump rifles for a long, long time. I've owned about five Remington 760s and currently have a .30-06 carbine made in the mid 60s. With a ten round magazine it can send some lead downrange pretty quickly.

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I once had a Timberwolf in .44 magnum that a friend talked me out of, wish I had kept it. I also had a Taurus Thunderbolt in .45 Colt that work flawlessly, one of the few apparently.

I've always wanted one of those stainless 357 Timberwolf pumps. One of the few pumps that I want that I have never owned.
Been hoping for years that Rossi would make a clone to match the stainless lever they are always sold out of.
 
I have one I can part with. They can be finicky, since back in the day, they used several different catches. PM me your name and address and I will ship it today.
you are the MAN!

I had bought a couple off Ebay that didn't want to work reliably.
 
you are the MAN!

I had bought a couple off Ebay that didn't want to work reliably.
Gunbroker had quite a few when I was shopping...short and long mags.
The challenge there was not paying a fortune for one.
 
You can keep them. My first rifle was a 270 Rem Mdl 7600 which remains to this day the most painful rifle I have ever shot. It was also very easy to short shuck. I love pump shotguns, especially Wingmasters and have used them all my life but allways had problems with the 7600
 
I have always wanted one of these goofy things:

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7615 in 5.56 that uses AR/STANAG magazines. I have no idea what I would do with it, I just want one.
I had one and it was Big fun. They were essentially 870s in rifle form. I had a 16 inch '06 also, very effective Not Big fun. These pumps are the only action actuated guns that you never have to remove a hand to shoot. Unlike Bolts and Levers. I only own .22s now but maybe I'll re-look that .223 Patrol Rifle again...….

Check out the 500 S&W Towner pump on YT!!!
 
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I've always wanted one of those stainless 357 Timberwolf pumps. One of the few pumps that I want that I have never owned.
Been hoping for years that Rossi would make a clone to match the stainless lever they are always sold out of.
Had a blued one for years.Think I sold it on the old forum
 
I have always wanted one of these goofy things:

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7615 in 5.56 that uses AR/STANAG magazines. I have no idea what I would do with it, I just want one.

A few years back some guy on Gunbroker had at least a dozen of these that came out of a prison in the Midwest somewhere. He dribbled them out 1 or 2 at a time. I kept trying to steal one. Came close a couple times but always got outbid. What fascinated me was the bids. One would go for a little over $500 and the next one would bring almost $800. Crazy.
 
Forgot about the Remington Model 14 and 141. Those where tube fed centerfire pumps.

CD

I had a friend who had one in 30 Rem. It had a spiral in the tubular magazine so that you could shoot pointed bullets with no worries. Very nice rifle.
 
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