The Real Hawkeye
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A couple of days ago I read a post (which I connot find now, even with the search feature) from a guy who wants to buy a used hunting rifle for a neightbor's son who cannot afford one. He was looking at a Remington 721 and was asking what people's opinions of them were. Jack O'Connor thought they were serviceable rifles. Here's what he said in the early 1950s about them.
The Model 721 is a production job. Unlike the Mauser type actions the receiver is not a forging. Instead, it is apparently milled out of bar stock. The bolt handle is welded on instead of being forged with the body of the bolt. Trigger guard and floorplate are formed by a single stamping and the floorplate cannot be removed except with a screwdriver. The excellent trigger mechanism with its crisp single stage pull is made from stampings, likewise the safety. The Model 721 is a production rifle, much easier to tool up for and much easier and cheaper to manufacture than the Winchester Model 70 [pre-64]. It is not a gun nut's rifle, but for the man who simply wants utility out of a rifle, it is a very good one.
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