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Remington Woodmaster Opinions - 740 - 742 - .30-06
ChrisInTempe
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I've read reviews of these old rifles that the accuracy was poor and feeding / ejection problems were common. Some comments were that the 740 / 742 guns worked best with heavy loads, 180gr for example.
Anyone here have experience with this gun?
Anyone here have experience with this gun?
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A few days later I shot another deer with it, but it stuck. Firing pin was broken. That took 3 months to get fixed.
Back at the range the following week it jammed. I left the range and drove to Macon and bought a Mauser sporter, sold the Remington the next day.
Golferboy426's is the single completely positive comment I have read (thanks by the way!).
The temptation is that I saw these guns advertised when I was young and thought the semi-auto or pump-action versions in large rifle calibers was a great idea. Especially being magazine fed, though I wanted a greater magazine capacity. Of course I could not afford one then.
Now it is sounding like they only worked until worn and never shoot well if the forearm mounting is not quite perfect. Something about it pulls on the barrel. That's the gist I am getting anyway.
As all the one's I am seeing today are pretty well used looking, I'll not be taking the gamble.
Oh well, another youthful gun fantasy goes down in flames!
popular deer gun here in wisconsin for the uninformed.Jamming problems, poor accuracy,nicknamed the Jammington.
Yep, sums up my experience here in Wisconsin as well. My father-in-law and a few guys he hunts with have them and all have had at least one jam while hunting. They are an okay gun for someone who is meticulous about cleaning, but for the general crowd that owns them around here, they are not the right rifle for them. You are just asking for carbon build-up, or the likes of that. I have even seen them freeze shut in the cold mornings of deer season.
Accuracy isn't bad and they generally have nice wood on them are a couple pros I guess.
Jon
To be objective, their aren't many rifles more readily available in pawn shops than them. Which kind of tells me when push comes to shove and a guy needs to let go of a gun, lots of people figure they can do without their 7400/742/760 rifle.
I have a 740 in 3006. I have killed countless deer with and never had any trouble. It's all in the care you take of them. Over oiling will cause problems. I shoot 165 grain Remingtons and they are accurate enough to kill any deer I ever shot at and cycle well through the gun.
those same words I would use to describe my rem 1100 too much oil and cold temps make it a single shot too. I bought my 742 here on GB last year and I gotta say its treated me fine. I do with it as I do with my 1100 almost running it dry.
Most will not even attempt to disassemble or clean an autoloading rifle. They really are good guns, just too complex and difficult to clean for the average hunter. Heck, once Bubba finds his cleaning rod, douses the brush with some Hoppe's and runs it down the muzzle, all that slush goes right into the action.
Get the Browning Bar it's. Worth the few extra dollars
+1
On my 740, the mag. IS the bolt lock. Wish it did have an independent hold-open!
On a positive note: Many years ago, a friend bought a used 742 that would not work. I contacted Remington for him, to see if they would fix it, and it seems that, at that time anyway, there was sort of a secret warranty on them. We had to send the rifle in, along with some money, and Remington sent back a brand new Model Four. I don't remember how much money it was, but it was low enough that my friend was very happy and thought he got a heck of a deal.
One I saw on GB has a receiver with very little of the original bluing left. But the trigger guard is dark blue. Tells me it's been worked on, parts replaced. Seems a tell-tale sign of past trouble to me.