HankB
Member
Some years ago, I was a member of a gun club that used to open its range to the public several weeks before deer season for public sight-in. When working range duty as a safety officer during this period, I got to see a LOT of guns come through the range - at least a couple of hundred every day. So I had ample opportunity to see what worked . . . and what didn't.
Remington auto-loaders were quite popular, and the majority worked OK, though they gave lackuster accuracy. BUT a significant number - well into the double-digits, percentage wise - were autojammers. One particularly disturbing failure mode involved chambering a cartridge almost completely, but locking up so tight it was almost impossible to retract the bolt and extract the live round.
Consensus was that Remington produced a LOT of Monday AM and Friday PM rifles.
Based on my observatons over a decade or more of this, I'll never pay money for a Remington 742/7400 series rifle. (I'll never buy a Tasco - errr, make that Trashco - riflescope, either. But that's another story.)
Remington auto-loaders were quite popular, and the majority worked OK, though they gave lackuster accuracy. BUT a significant number - well into the double-digits, percentage wise - were autojammers. One particularly disturbing failure mode involved chambering a cartridge almost completely, but locking up so tight it was almost impossible to retract the bolt and extract the live round.
Consensus was that Remington produced a LOT of Monday AM and Friday PM rifles.
Based on my observatons over a decade or more of this, I'll never pay money for a Remington 742/7400 series rifle. (I'll never buy a Tasco - errr, make that Trashco - riflescope, either. But that's another story.)
