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Post by oldshooter on Oct 21, 2012 14:45:03 GMT -5
Looking around the Internet, particularly at gun discussion forum sites, I've found an awful lot of negative reports on the Remington 742. It's stated that putting a lot of rounds through these rifles can cause internal wear to the receiver and cause failure to cycle and other jamming. This kind of reputation has made a difference; 742s show up first in online catalogs ordered lowest to highest in price. Even rifles intended to be second rate, like Winchester 670s, sell for more. My own 742, which I've been shooting regularly since 1963, has not given this kind of trouble. I've killed many deer, hogs and javelinas with it and never had any trouble with it the field. At one time in the mid-80s I bought a 500 round lot of very 'generic' mil surplus 7.62 and practiced hard at a range until the extractor finally split. Fixing it was a little bit of trouble, but it has stayed fixed. I took it out in a blind looking for hogs just last night. Heck, I might buy another one.
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Post by Hardrada55 on Oct 21, 2012 15:54:16 GMT -5
I don't think it was an inherently bad design. Heck, I hear Remington had been working on the design since the 1940s. But, I believe all the major manufacturers went through a time where they sacrificed quality beginning probably in the mid-1960s.
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Post by oldshooter on Oct 21, 2012 20:28:18 GMT -5
I wrote a 'one good gun' piece about my 742 for the 2000 Gun Digest. The receiver is milled with a sketch of a white tail buck on one side and a charging bear on the other, plus the 'Woodsmaster' logo. Timney did a number on the trigger group, and if it's kept clean it will shoot pretty well.
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