The Unloved 7615

[bushmaster1313]

Unloved by almost everyone except by me



To mount the Bushnell red dot optic, I had my local gunsmith shorten a standard Weaver rail and add a second slot to accomodate a 1/2" two screw riser. The riser sits on the short Weaver rail and the Bushnell sits on the riser. The single screw of the Bushnell mount is seated in the middle slot of the three slot riser:

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I would love it more minus the optic.

 

[wishn4more]

Just saw one in a pawn shop the other day. Weird & neat at the same time!

 

[bushmaster1313]

I would love it more minus the optic.

The riser has a channel which allows use of the iron sights by anyone with young eyes.

 

[HC_Jack]

I want to love it, but can't get over the tacked on look of the mag well.

 

[MrCleanOK]

Why did you choose to use the riser?

 

[bushmaster1313]

. I want to love it, but can't get over the tacked on look of the mag well.

It is screwed in

Take out trigger group and one screw releases magazine well from the receiver.

 

[Sam1911]

They are neat guns! Seriously thought about one a couple years back when some used one hit a (not actually very) local shop for just over $400. Just couldn't figure out what role it would have in my collection so (like so many other worthy and very cool rifles ) I passed them up.

Getting the optics right with the comb height is an issue with these shotgun-based rifles, but if you like a high cheek weld and high sightline anyway, they aren't so bad.

 

[Tophernj]

What caliber? They look like AR mags, are they?

C

 

[Sam1911]

That's a Remington 7615 -- which means a version of their 760 pump rifle that's in 5.56mm/.223 and uses AR-15 mags.

A very cool gun that makes for a great LEO patrol rifle, or other capable basic utility gun. For better or worse the semi-auto AR-15s are cheap enough and so hyper-prevalent that they steal a lot of the thunder of these neat rifles, but these are pretty super and just a whole lot of fun.

 

[jmr40]

They make a little sense in areas where semi-auto's are restricted. Otherwise an AR is a better choice.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

The 7615 makes more sense (to me) for patrol use in a PD where officers on patrol are usually armed with 870P shotguns but which PD for public relations or training reasons restricts ARs to SWAT.

 

[TexasShooter59]

Unloved, huh? I almost got one a few years ago. Lack of the $$$.

 

[bannockburn]

I have to agree with wishn4more: kind of weird and neat, all in one rifle.

 

[wally]

Pump rifles and bolt action shotguns have never been very popular with shooters despite the idea that "standardizing" the action would be somehow beneficial. Autoloaders are the new standard

I regret not buying one of the two pump AKs I've seen for the shear novelty of it. I was at the table to buy the second one years later, but a guy ahead of me got it first.

 

[Sam1911]

Pump rifles and bolt action shotguns have never been very popular with shooters despite the idea that "standardizing" the action would be somehow beneficial.

Actually there's an interesting little bit in American Rifleman this month, in the article on the Rem 1100, about Remington's idea of a family of long guns all sharing a fundamental design -- hence why the 870, 878, 760, 740, etc., etc., all are so intriguingly similar and share so many parts.

It would seem to me that this would only have been a really good marketing idea if they managed to convince shooters to buy multiple guns -- pumps and autos of both rifles and shotguns. But maybe they did. It is kind of a neat thing -- very "mid-century Americana"-- regardless of how much of a marketing triumph it might have been or not been.

 

[ThomasT]

I have read there are a lot of them in use in austrailia where they can't own semi auto rifles.

I had one and really regret selling it. I never lost a single peice of brass when shooting that gun unlike I do when shooting an AR or Mini-14. Plus it was so easy to aim. With its shotgun feel it just pointed so well. And it was accurate.

The only problem I had was that it had a very tight bolt face. American brass worked just fine but some of the steel cased ammo must have had slightly larger rims. Sometimes an empty would stick real hard in the bolt face and had to be pried out. I don't think that was the fault of the gun. Just an occasional out of spec case.

 

[USAF_Vet]

I'd like to have one if I could find one for a decent price.

 

[119er]

Bushmaster1313, I disagreed with you in your earlier thread about the AR15 being overrated, but after watching a few YouTube videos of these they seem like fun. When I was a kid I would have loved this thing. Even now as a fun gun. I like the way my 870's handle and I'm sure this thing is a blast to plink with. Enjoy it and if you need better alignment with your optic maybe some shotgun stocks like the Magpul can give you what you need.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I've been looking for a 7515 since I first heard of them. I've never seen or handled one, but I'm pretty sure that I would grab one if it came my way. I've always liked small-bore, light-recoiling short rifles that are pump-actioned.

 

[Sam1911]

I've always liked small-bore, light-recoiling short rifles that are pump-actioned.

It's like a gallery gun for grownups!

 

[W.E.G.]

Is it as accurate as a Mini-14?

Its definitely got the Mini beat on ugly.

 

[blue32]

It was the most unwieldy patrol rifle I ever carried. Heavy for what you get and didn't like magazines that had the least amount of misshaped feed lips. It short stroked unlike any pump I've ever shot. Prone shooting? HA! forget about it. With a 7615 you're good for one shot in prone position. Then you have to do the whole roll to one side (in a duty belt which doesn't lend well to rolling mind you) to chamber another round and reacquire your target. Even if you didn't roll, one would have to raise the rifle from a prone position so your elbow didn't strike the ground to rechamber. And with shirt stays in the front pulling the back of my collar tight against my neck (like getting strangled from the back) it didnt take long before I adopted the roll method. Take all these things and the fact suspects already have semi autos and you're already out gunned. And don't get me started on that sticky butt pad!

I'll give this rifle a plus for accuracy. That's all I can give it. A plinking around the farm gun is what the 7615 is. I guess it beats a pistol if thats all you have but not by much.

 

[mr.trooper]

Never seen one at a reasonable price. They always seem to be in the AR price range when I find one in person (seen people ask $700 for them).

 

[Willie Sutton]

The .308 version is my 50-state legal defensive rifle aboard my boat... love it.

Would love to pick up a 7615 as a companion rifle. Looks good!



Willie

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