rem 750 woodsmaster
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Is it a 750 or a 760? A friend has a 30-06 and his sons shoot 243's. The 06 kicks like a mule. Accuracy is min. of whitetail. He says the 243's shoot real good. Accuracy is always in the eyes of the shooter. Personally, for me, I'd rather have a good bolt gun for deer. JMO
I don't have any experience with the 750 but I have it's older brother the 742. I love it for what it is. It is a solid, Game accurate(1.5"-2.0") auto rifle that performs flawlessly when taken care of. It is NOT a bang away 100 rds in a day and put away without cleaning rifle. The chamber needs to be kept clean or it will start jamming. I have a 30-06 which seems to be what 75% of them are but I hunt with a guy that uses a .243 and he loves it. His experiences have been as good as mine. These have a reputation of being "Jam-ingtons" but I've only seen that in neglected ones. Personlly, I would buy a 750 and anice scope before an AR but some people like the component nature of the AR. With the 742/7400/750, you pretty much get what you have. There are very few aftermarket parts. Change the trigger spring and drop some game. Good Luck with your decision
I am not sure now if I'm wrong or not. I got curious and got out my gun book and I can't find anything on a Rem.750 Woodsmaster. I find a mod. 81,740,740A,740ADL,BDL,742(A),742ADL Deluxe and on and on, but no 750. One of us is wrong, I can't seem to find any info on this rifle. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but If I am, tell me what a Rem. 750 is. There are mod four's, mod. 8's, 74 sportsman, just no 750's. Then it goes into the 7400 series. If there is a 750 series, please feel free to enlighten me on it, as I guess I've never seen or heard of one.
GC
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If you don't know then you could just google "Remington 750" and get your answer. While I know what the gun is I did the search deal just because. I got 462,000 hits in 0.36 seconds. The first site is the Remington home website with their Model 750 information.
Remington touts it as a new and improved model, but it seems nothing has changed on the interior to prevent the frame rails from chattering and eventually rendering the gun a single shot. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif The pump gun has no such problem and is not only more dependable and less fussy to take care of (with a magazine that works in that gun), the pump is also about twice as accurate and lighter weight. It's a no brainer to me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
Remington touts it as a new and improved model, but it seems nothing has changed on the interior to prevent the frame rails from chattering and eventually rendering the gun a single shot. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif The pump gun has no such problem and is not only more dependable and less fussy to take care of (with a magazine that works in that gun), the pump is also about twice as accurate and lighter weight. It's a no brainer to me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
knockemdown
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If you could find an old 760 Gamemaster pump in .243, you'd have yourself one cherry of a rifle. The '06s do kick like mules, but they are suprisingly accurate and make a great "in the woods" deer rifle...
A .243 pump would be almost as fast as a semi, and like GC mentioned, likely be more accurate and definitely lighter weight. The semis in that style feel like an oak 2x4 to carry...
A .243 pump would be almost as fast as a semi, and like GC mentioned, likely be more accurate and definitely lighter weight. The semis in that style feel like an oak 2x4 to carry...
GSPKurt
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How accurate are the rem 750 woodsmaster? Was thinking about one in 243 to double as deer gun. I can get one and a nice scope for what another ar style gun would cost me. Never shot one and dont know anyone personaly who has one. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
It's a piece of S**T. I know from firsthand experience. Don't waste your money. I owned one for 3 months. In that time I had it in my posession for exactly 7 days. The rest of the time it was either at the gunsmith or at Remington because it was basically a single shot rifle. The trigger sucks, also. I gave up and got rid of it. I now own a Browning BAR in .308. No troubles.
How accurate are the rem 750 woodsmaster? Was thinking about one in 243 to double as deer gun. I can get one and a nice scope for what another ar style gun would cost me. Never shot one and dont know anyone personaly who has one. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
It's a piece of S**T. I know from firsthand experience. Don't waste your money. I owned one for 3 months. In that time I had it in my posession for exactly 7 days. The rest of the time it was either at the gunsmith or at Remington because it was basically a single shot rifle. The trigger sucks, also. I gave up and got rid of it. I now own a Browning BAR in .308. No troubles.
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AWS
Custom Accessory Maker & Retired PM Staff
In 1966 I bought a .308Win(free ammo) 742 BDL Deluxe in Taiwan (fitted it with a reciever sight) to target shoot with the chinese army. It held it's own against their accurised M-1's. Brought it back to the states and gave it to my dad. He hunted deer with it for 25yrs till it got too heavy for him to pack around and I sold it to the neighbors son to hunt and kill vermin on the farm, it's still behind the kitchen door, waiting to go to work.
My EX was a wiz with a pump gun, shot trap, trap doubles and skeet in competition with her 870's. She decided she wanted a pump deer rifle and we picked up a used 760 in 270Win it turned out to be one of the most accurate hunting rifles I've ever had on the bench and would hold it's own with most varmint rigs, it loved Sierra 140 GK's and AA-3100.
I've had great luck with Remingtons I still have a 760 in 35Rem that I keep back in WI incase I decide at the last minute to go hunting back there.
AWS
My EX was a wiz with a pump gun, shot trap, trap doubles and skeet in competition with her 870's. She decided she wanted a pump deer rifle and we picked up a used 760 in 270Win it turned out to be one of the most accurate hunting rifles I've ever had on the bench and would hold it's own with most varmint rigs, it loved Sierra 140 GK's and AA-3100.
I've had great luck with Remingtons I still have a 760 in 35Rem that I keep back in WI incase I decide at the last minute to go hunting back there.
AWS
Squeeze
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I had a Model 7400, that I won at a DU Banquet. It was a
270 Win, that shot about 1.5 MOA, with hand loads, and never
gave me any trouble. My brother wanted it more than I
did, and he has it to this day. Again, he has had no
trouble with it, but we do know to keep them clean.
When my father passed, I got his lightly used Model 760,
in 30-06 Sprg. It is about a 1 MOA rifle, with the Federal
ammo my father shot. A little better with my hand loads.
I don't shoot pumps, but the little I hunted/shot this
one, I had no problems cycling it. The recoil pretty
much ejected the spent round, and I just had to remember
to push the slide shut. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I would use it as my
woods deer rifle, except I have a very sweet Browning
BAR Stalker, in 308 Win, that is set up for me, and is
sub MOA accurate. I like semi-autos better for running
deer, in northern forests. Those bolt gun elitists,
would go hungry up here, in the Wisconsin 9 day gun
deer season. Most of the better bucks are moving, even
if it is at a fast walk, to a trot, and you can blat at
them all you want. For the most part that just makes
them move faster. So you get one poke at them with
those bolt floppers, and you had better hope it makes
it through the brush. Me I keep pounding until the
deer drops, or the BAR runs dry.
Anyway, on the Remington 750 question, I would stay
away from them, for maintenance, and mechanical, issues.
The recommendations for Model 760/7600 pump actions, or
Browning BARs, is solid advice. Oh the 760/7600s in
long action cartridges(30-06, 270, 35 Whelen, etc) do
have some recoil, but nothing a good butt pad can't fix.
Squeeze
270 Win, that shot about 1.5 MOA, with hand loads, and never
gave me any trouble. My brother wanted it more than I
did, and he has it to this day. Again, he has had no
trouble with it, but we do know to keep them clean.
When my father passed, I got his lightly used Model 760,
in 30-06 Sprg. It is about a 1 MOA rifle, with the Federal
ammo my father shot. A little better with my hand loads.
I don't shoot pumps, but the little I hunted/shot this
one, I had no problems cycling it. The recoil pretty
much ejected the spent round, and I just had to remember
to push the slide shut. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I would use it as my
woods deer rifle, except I have a very sweet Browning
BAR Stalker, in 308 Win, that is set up for me, and is
sub MOA accurate. I like semi-autos better for running
deer, in northern forests. Those bolt gun elitists,
would go hungry up here, in the Wisconsin 9 day gun
deer season. Most of the better bucks are moving, even
if it is at a fast walk, to a trot, and you can blat at
them all you want. For the most part that just makes
them move faster. So you get one poke at them with
those bolt floppers, and you had better hope it makes
it through the brush. Me I keep pounding until the
deer drops, or the BAR runs dry.
Anyway, on the Remington 750 question, I would stay
away from them, for maintenance, and mechanical, issues.
The recommendations for Model 760/7600 pump actions, or
Browning BARs, is solid advice. Oh the 760/7600s in
long action cartridges(30-06, 270, 35 Whelen, etc) do
have some recoil, but nothing a good butt pad can't fix.
Squeeze
knockemdown
New member
Google the Benoit Brothers.
Get their videos and watch how fast those dudes can throw lead at, hit & kill monster NE bucks with Remmy 760 pump guns on the run, in the big woods. The footage may not be great, but the shooting is impressive, to say the least...
IMHO, the pumping action required for the 760 to follow up actually helps you 're-center' & get back on target after the recoil pulse pretty darn fast...
Get their videos and watch how fast those dudes can throw lead at, hit & kill monster NE bucks with Remmy 760 pump guns on the run, in the big woods. The footage may not be great, but the shooting is impressive, to say the least...
IMHO, the pumping action required for the 760 to follow up actually helps you 're-center' & get back on target after the recoil pulse pretty darn fast...
azmastablasta
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Gspkurt nailed it. After much research I too settled on a 750 woodmaster in .243.Several gunsmiths warned me not to buy it, they all agreed that 30.06 and .270 should be fine but that Remington never figured out how to make a .243 function properly in this gun or its predecessor.I read Remingtons info and they claimed to have changed the alignments of the gas ports and enlarged them to eliminate the earlier function problems.Soooo...I bought one at Cabelas last Nov. Bad mistake. I could never get it to cycle the second bullet, not once.Cleaned it,after firing the first shot,tried various ammo,it never once fired the second bullet.Took it back to Cabelas,not to get my money back,I wanted that rifle. They sent it back to Remington and called me in Feb, saying it was back.No explanation from mfg,just said here it is.I called the Dept mgr over and asked what the mfg had done,I knew they hadn't replaced it as I had the serial number.He couldn't find any paperwork on it,so I informed him I would be going to the range from the store and if it still didn't function I would be back for a full refund,NOT a store credit.Needless to say,the gun still malfunctioned on the second bullet every time.I tried 2 other magazines just to see if that was the issue.No luck.Went back to Cabela's that afternoon and the Dept mgr said sorry, no cash refunds, store credit only, sorry, that's policy.By now I'm fuming mad,and other customers in line are very aware of that fact too.I told him that before this gets any uglier he should probably call the Store mgr, which he gladly did.After listening to the new guys rendition of store policy I informed him that I didn't give a [beeep] about store policy,the only way they were getting me out of their store was with a full refund. I must've wore him out because I did finally get a full cash refund. The following week I was back looking at used guns and there sat my returned gun,same serial number, for sale, as is,no refunds or exchanges.Some poor sucker probably bought it.If so I would warn him its a SINGLE shot.
axehandle
New member
Thats what I love about this site. If you dont know all you got to do is ask. I am just a dumb old country boy. Have a passion for ar but I believe a new bolt action is in my future. Now what is it going to be a rem or a savage. Thanks for all you guys help. I really appreciate it.
If you bolt floppers can hit these PA deer on the run with only one shot every time once we scare the [beeep] outta 'em the first couple of hours of rifle season, more power to ya! LOL! I have bolts too, and use 'em here, but I think the 760 is the PA State Rifle. Can't say much about the 750/740/742 - we can't use semi rifles here to hunt. I like my 760's - shoot well enuf for hunting distances, esp. with reloads, and fast follow-up shots. My groundhog load is under 3/4 inch w/ 3 shots @ 100 yards. Deer load is right there too. I think those 7615's/223's would be the cat's s*&t for varmints here too. Once they get the price down $700 vs. $300 for a good used 760 in any other caliber is a bit salty for me.
Funny, never thought my '06 760 kicks more than my other 06's!?!?!?! But a recoil pad on all of them would be welcome. Get the 760, and if you notice that you're even pumping it when shooting at game, you're not excited enuf! Good Hunting!
Funny, never thought my '06 760 kicks more than my other 06's!?!?!?! But a recoil pad on all of them would be welcome. Get the 760, and if you notice that you're even pumping it when shooting at game, you're not excited enuf! Good Hunting!