OOO! Man! An old 742 Remington.
That was my first hunting rifle, that was bought for me, for hunting (in my past life). No, I'm not that old. I was still in diapers at the time. It's an semi-auto. 5-shot with 1 in the chamber. No magnum chamberings was marketed for it.
As I had the 22 inch barrel/30-06.. With the diamond checkering. It had no swivels for a sling. They also made a deluxe model with basket-weave (had cheek-piece and swivels) And a carbine model with a 18, 18-1/2 inch barrel. That model was made or came out in the late 60's, early 70's. The bolt is coated with teflon, most of the parts (action) were coated teflon. Marketed (at that time) for easy cleaning and smooth action. The cost of the rifle, at the time (70's), was $180.00. Now it's marketed as the 7400, 7500.?
It was compared to the Browning BAR, the Browning was more (a lot more) money at that time. If you were into magnums, you had that Browning to go with as a semi-auto. It was and still is, a good long-gun, as Remington still markets it under a different model number.
The woodsmaster is the 22 inch model and the 18-1/2 inch is called, or was called the brushmaster. The carbine model only was chambered in .308 or .30-06. As I remember, its chamberings were the 280 remington, 270, 243, 30-06, 308, and (I think) the .25-06.
Also, I'm not sure of this though, the model before the 742 was the 740. I only know, the point in time of the 742.
The 742 was tapped for scope-mount. Had open sights. Accurate, it was. For me anyway. And fast follow-up. Remington also made (what I call a cousin) a pump action as well to the auto. Looks the same, but had rails in the fore-arm stock.
Have to go. Enough of strolling down memory lane.
