In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.

Remington 742...

Grunt2Grunt2 Member Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭
edited December 2007 in Ask the Experts
Any book(s) out there on smithing the Remington 742?
Retired LEO
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member
· Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Comments

  • 260260 Member Posts: 1,133 ✭
    edited November -1
    a simple gun. what is the problem?
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 260
    a simple gun. what is the problem?


    If you have to ask the question "what is the problem?", you obviously have no real clue about the Model 742. It is by no means "a simple gun".

    WACA Historian & Life Member

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Bert H.
    quote:Originally posted by 260
    a simple gun. what is the problem?


    If you have to ask the question "what is the problem?", you obviously have no real clue about the Model 742. It is by no means "a simple gun".


    +1 Bert H. any of that whole series, although I have not seen a 750 yet. I have had the 740, 742, 4, and 7400's in the shop. I hate them all.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 260260 Member Posts: 1,133 ✭
    edited November -1
    MR. BERT, if you have worked on as many as i have ... they are simple. simple as THAT
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "although I have not seen a 750 yet. I have had the 740, 742, 4, and 7400's in the shop. I hate them all"...while I cann't say that, there are a LOT of rifles I like better. As to books on them, the only one I have is the Remington shop manual (green book). It lists the orfices sizes for the various calibers, I've looked through Brownell's and Midways book selections and they do not offer anything. This week I have to tell a local hunter his 742 was junk, the bolt cut into the receiver so bad you could almost turn it 90 degrees.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 260
    MR. BERT, if you have worked on as many as i have ... they are simple. simple as THAT


    I guess i would have to ask, why have you worked on that many? We all have, and you are right, they are simple...simply junk. The better designs out there like the Browning, and Benelli/Beretta/Winchester are much simpler. You don't have to work on them as they are RELIABLE.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a 742. The firing pin broke and it took the gunsmith 3 months to fix it, I don't know, maybe he wasn't the best gunsmith in the world.
    Then the thing jammed on me while hunting.
    I sold it and bought a Mauser, problem solved.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Grunt2Grunt2 Member Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK...Back to the question...Any books out there that deal with the 742? I picked one up (243Win) for a song and a dance..(And I can't sing or dance)...Been in a closet for 20+ years and dates around 1960...appears to be a great little shooter. I'm getting 1" groups at 100 yards with factory ammo and a cheap 4X scope. Bolt is tight and the rails look great. Somewhat of a pain to strip down, no bolt lock W/O the clip and the clips are a pain to remove if you have big fingers... The barrel/action design is lacking any amount of thought..But other than that not a bad rifle. I have it stripped out on the bench checking some tolerances. There is a company in CO is knocking out "Tactical" versions with free floating forends etc...(not sure how they do that with the present gas system)but they get sub-MOA!!
    Retired LEO
    Combat Vet VN
    D.A.V Life Member
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 260260 Member Posts: 1,133 ✭
    edited November -1
    if you are getting 1" groups at 100 yds. count your blessings and leave it alone.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • MBKMBK Member Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have two of them. One is a Canadian Centennial 308, and the other is a 150th Company-Centen-30:06 made 1966. Heck, I paid 375 and 250, and they both came with good scopes. They were checked over and found in real good condition. Each shoots under 2 inches with 3x9 scopes. I think the 3006 is one of my most accurate rifles.

    That said, I have a Win 100 which is even more accurate, but it is too collectible to take in the field.

    http://groups.msn.com/BirdInfluenza/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=4

    If you put an ad in your local shopper asking for one, somebody will call snd sell it for under $300 and it may have a Leo--scope.

    Now I would like some of those new 750-Benelli-Bar rifles but they cost $900 plus scopes.

    Inspection: Look way up on the receiver with the bolt open and gun upside down. You don't want scoring in the track near the chamber.

    If you need have one and need a fix of the scored track, then Bear Creek Guns in Seliah, WA can do that. About a million were sold and yes, some wore out, but there were a lot of Happys. The see-aim-fire-reload-fireagain capability of a semiauto gives quite an advantage over some slower bolt repeaters.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
Sign In or Register to comment.