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Remington 720

HeadwindDonHeadwindDon Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
edited November 2007 in Ask the Experts
Does anyone know if the Remington 720 was ever chambered in .308?
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  • Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't see how.
    The 720 was only made right before WW II and not brought back when commercial production was resumed after the war. The .308 came out of the M14 program in the early 1950s.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Model 720

    Description: Bolt Action Rifle
    Introduction Year: 1941
    Year Discontinued: 1944
    Total Production: Approximately: 2,427
    Designer/Inventor: Research & Development
    Action Type: Bolt Action
    Caliber/Gauge: .257 Remington-Roberts, .270 Win., .30-06
    Serial Number Blocks: Starting: N/A
    Ending: N/A
    # of Grades Offered: 720A
    720AR
    720AL
    720S
    720SR
    720R
    720RR
    720RL
    Variations: N/A
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  • Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have seen those dates before. Do you really think they were building sporting rifles into 1944 with a war going on?
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hawk Carse,

    Take it up with Remington since they are the ones that publish those dates.

    Best.
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  • I.ShuteI.Shute Member Posts: 647 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hawk-
    I imagine they were just finishing the components they had after the initial production during the last 2 or 3 years.

    It's a good thing that there's a lot of the m-1917's and sporterized
    1917's still around. Now we can make our own 720's.
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  • Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, I kind of visualize a couple of old codgers saying" I ain't gonna work on no more Army rifles. Me and Fred will be putting together 720s as long as the parts last, then we retire."
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  • joel_blackjoel_black Member Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They supplied 720s to the military that were used as awards in rifle matches. They were still handing some of those out in the early 1960s, but none were produce after WW II.
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  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,179 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The 257 Roberts is the rarest chambering, 270 next and most manufactured were in 30.06. About 1,000 were bought by the Navy and are marked with crossed cannon marks on the stock.
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  • HeadwindDonHeadwindDon Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's what I thought. I have an aquaintance who said he had a Rem 720 in .308 and my alarms went off.
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  • Winston BodeWinston Bode Member Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If he had one in .30-06 and had a chamber insert like the Navy used in the M-1 Grarands he very well could have a 720 that will shoot .308 cartridges. Just a thought.

    Bode
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