I few years back I ran into fellow that had a 760 for sale.

Not owning a 270 but having a few hundred of rounds of brass laying and a set of dies.

The price was right so it went home with me Mounted on it was a very cheap Simmons scope.

I loaded some rounds sighted it in at 50 yards stuck it away knowing some day I would buy a good scope for it. I did kill a deer with it last fall

Well I finely went and brought a 3x9 Leupold for it mounted it.

I took it out and sighted it in after getting it close and making the final adjustment. I fired the final 4 shot group(it has a 4 shot mag).

I was please it was right on the money right at 1.1 inches at 100 yards plenty good enough to kill all kinds of game.

I believe I'll take it out to300 later today.

The owner of the land I hunted on when I was a lad owned a 760 in .270 Win. At the beginning of each season, we spray painted a black circle about three inches in diameter on an OLD oak an verified our zeros from 100 yds away. His groups always ended up at about an inch. I never saw him miss a deer in all the years we hunted together.

I have two now, a .35 Rem and a .300 Savage. The Rem will throw 200 grain handloads into 1" at 50 yds offhand with the Redfield peep it came with. I haven't had the Savage long enough to find out how well it will shoot yet.

Looking forward to the 300 report.

I have been looking for a free market 760 in 300 sav haven't found one yet to go along with my sav 99

I have a Rem760 in 30-06. After working the trigger over some I can shoot 3 shot groups you can cover with a quarter. I also shortened the barrel to 18" and recrowned it.
It has taken too many deer to count and a number of other animals.

I worked for a very large sporting goods store many years ago with a huge inventory of used guns. One of my duties was a trip to the range every week or two to function check used guns that had come in to the shop for resale (rough job I know). I test fired probably a dozen 760's while I worked there. Every one of them was surprisingly accurate and often bested their bolt action brothers with factory ammo.

Mart

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Originally posted by mart:
I worked for a very large sporting goods store many years ago with a huge inventory of used guns. One of my duties was a trip to the range every week or two to function check used guns that had come in to the shop for resale (rough job I know). I test fired probably a dozen 760's while I worked there. Every one of them was surprisingly accurate and often bested their bolt action brothers with factory ammo.

Mart

No surprise to me, I own four of them (7600's). They are the only rifles I own that will never be sold or traded.

I've taken several pronghorn with a Rem. 760 BDL in .270. It's that accurate that it was no handicap on the plains.