Remington 760 30-06 Accuracy Issues

I have the same vintage 760 rifle in 30-06. Floating the barrel did not help. When shooting , hold forarm with your hand. Place hand holding forarm on sand bag rest. No bag rear. This method may get you groups just under 2"

The rifle has always gotten the deer at ranges under 100 yards, so good enough. No long shots in these woods.

My barrel has a very rough bore, tool marks. Always wanted to try Tubb Final Finish bore lapping bullets. Never did.

The 7600's i have fired are better in the accuracy department.

http://www.davidtubb.com/final-finish-bullet-kits/finalfinish-bulletkit-308

My 760 would shoot 2 MOAish....I actually had a M1907 sling on it and would loop my arm through it as a brace, with my elbow resting on the bench.
I found that mine had a very tight chamber- some brands of ammo (Seller and Bellot for one) would have a very hard time ejecting after firing.
I also discovered that the magazines Remington still sells for the 7600/760 will NOT fit the 760, despite what it says on the packaging! Don't waste your money- hunt down an older, original mag if looking for a spare.

Floating the barrel guarantees nothing. No pump gun will be free floating anyway. The fore end of the pump has to connect to something. Only thing available is the barrel. In any case, accuracy claims are about hunting accuracy. No MOA accuracy for pump guns. Nnightlord40k's 2 MOA is good enough for deer anyway.

I took my first whitetail with my FIL's 760 in .30-06. It was a fine deer-getter, but it only shot 2 MOA on its best days ... more frequently 2-3 MOA. I considered it best as a woods gun where the ranges were short.

Sunray said:

No pump gun will be free floating anyway

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Wrong.
The 7600 has a free floated barrel and has been as accurate as some bolt action Remingtons. I have shot a few of both.

https://www.remington.com/rifles/pump-action/model-7600

243winxb said:

Wrong.
The 7600 has a free floated barrel and has been as accurate as some bolt action Remingtons. I have shot a few of both.

https://www.remington.com/rifles/pump-action/model-7600

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So the tube support is not actually brazed to the barrel? I'll admit I assumed it was and never looked that closely at it. If that's the case, perhaps by slinging it, I was inadvertently pulling the tube away from coming into contact. I suppose that may have actually helped shrink the groups......?

My barrel , no longer seems to be "floated" . I do remember giving it clearance many years ago. (1960's)

The forearm could be putting pressure on the barrel? No way to see it here. The action is in the open position.

A sling may hurt accuracy if using a lot of tension?

When i look down the barrel, its easy to see tool marks on the lands. This is the reason it didnt shoot cast bullets well. The first 5 shots would group. After that it collected to much lead. My 1903 loved the cast bullets, with its then new GI barrel.

Jacketed reloads were ok for hunting.


Barrel code shows a production date of April 1953.

I've had an early fifties Model 760 chambered in 30-06 for decades that I got from my grandfather. I have a Williams "FoolProof" receiver sight mounted on it and the rifle is a superb hunting gun for the typical cedar swamps in Michigan where I look for whitetails. Plenty accurate for the 100 yards or so ranges that I kill (oops, "harvest") deer at.

Shown is a 760 with slide open. Barrel is free floating. Except for the sling swivel I added. 5 inch groups at 300 yards with Remington factory ammo Core-Lokt 150 gr using folded up jacket for a rest. All my shots around here are 100 yards or less. Usually a lot less. I'm sure I could make some reloads for it, remove sling, bag it and get a better grouping than 5 inches at 300 hundred yards but don't see the need. I may one day, if I have time, try to wring out the accuracy and see what it can do. But for now I'm confident any legal deer at a hundred yards is coming home with me.

The Paul Jaeger mount was never to my liking, back in the day.

He had a shop in Jenkintown, Pa. Around 1970's . I have a new barrel put on a M70 243, with bedding, had problems with there work. Mr Jaeger was semi retired then, employees did the work. Replaced it with a Rem 40X.

They sold me S&W M29's at full retail. I added $100 and resold them. There was a waiting list.

The good old days.

I have an old 760 in '06 that is an honest 1 1/4" rifle. My longest kill was 230 measured yards. I load for the rifle using Hornady 150 grain interlocks and IMR 4350. Actually IMR 4064 is probably a better powder for this load but during hard times I couldn't find it so the switch to 4350. Don't try to put the bullet on the lands but make it fit the magazine.

If your mount screws were loose you have found your problem.

I shoot 55 grs imr 4350 with a 165 gr nosler BT in my rem 7600 pump 3006 carbine, its accurett and deadly at 2680 fps. eastbank.

My 7600 shoots 1 inch groups all day at 100 with Cor lock 150 rounds and 2 1\2 inch groups at 200.

Deltaboy1984 said:

My 7600 shoots 1 inch groups all day at 100 with Cor lock 150 rounds

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Same here with my 760 BDL. All I have ever shot out of it is cheap Core-Lokts. 30 years ago, I thought a 1" gun was substandard because I had my nose stuck in the various gun rags that were always talking of tighter shooting bolt guns. I just had to have me a 700 BDL. It didn't shoot factory ammo as good as the 760.

Nice model 7600 Remington ,in the link you shared 243winxb.

My grandpa has hunted with a Rem M7600 for decades; as long as I can remember. This is mostly in western MT, where shots range from under 50 yards in lodgepole thickets, to over a quarter mile ridleline to ridgeline. He's taken multiple game animals beyond 300 yards with it. He had a new barrel installed on it a few years ago and I remember him putting 150 gr Sierra Gameking handloads into 1.5 MOA.

I have 2 Remington 760s an early one made in 53 (270) and a another one made in the early 70s (30-06). The 270 has the barrel bracket that pushes slightly on the barrel at the end of the slide tube. The 06 doesn't have a bracket. They changed the style in the 50s and then again later when they changed the name to 7600. If you try this link, it is a great explaination of the guns history and quirks,

http://www.leeroysramblings.com/Gun Articles/remington_760_7600_pump_rifle.html

My 270 shoots better than my 06 when I first got them. Improvements I have made to improve the 06. Firsts the, the fore stock twists with a little pressure, likely when I'm excited and pumping out follow up shots. I'll grip it hard and pump like crazy, twisting uncontrollably. In these twisting conditions the wood will push on the barrel randomly.

I filed and sanded down the fore stock to fully Free float the barrel under twisting conditions. This helped not as .uch as I wanted but helped.

2nd I had the barrel off the receiver one day for a good cleaning. While re attaching the barrel to the receiver I noticed the barrel is a little sloppy in the receiver, on the 06 made in the 70s. My 270 from the 50s is tighter.

I measured the difference .007" so I found some shim stock and added a shim around the barrel lug, it is harder to assemble and disassemble. But I know it isn't wiggling under the rapid pressure wave when I pull the trigger.

The shiming made a big difference.

I shoot in dense hardwoods, so mostly inside of 100 yards. Open sights, I think my current groups are more to do now with my eyesight. Than the gun, but the 270 still shoots a little tighter groups.

here,s pictures of my rem 7600 in 3006 with factory 180 gr bullets and my reloads with 55 grs IMR 4350 and 100 yards from a rest holding the forend .

I had a Rem 760 in .35Rem back in late ‘80s. With a 200gr Sierra RN over a non published load of H322, it got 2,400fps and would shoot 3-Shot clover leaf groups at 100yds. Easily under 1”, and required no special techniques to do so.
However, I despised it due to the “rattling” forend. If Remington could have alleviated this with a nylon bushing or such, I’d still have it. However, after loosing several NICE deer by spooking them trying to get rifle into shooting position, I sent it down the road.

My Marlin M336 .35Rem shoots almost as good, and occupies the niche in my collection vacated by the M760. I don’t really miss it.

But, it DID have a free floating barrel...