The carbine introduced the Williams ramp rear sight, which replaced the earlier spring-leaf pattern.
30-06, again in both standard and deluxe grades. In 1960, a carbine version with an 18.5-inch barrel, the Model 760C, was introduced in. In 1954, Remington introduced a Model 760 ADL and a Model 760 BDL that featured cut and basketweave checkering, respectively. As was the standard practice at the time, Remington offered various deluxe versions of the rifle: the Model 760B Special Grade, D Peerless Grade, and F Premier Grade. 35 Whelan.Įarly-production rifles were fitted with a ribbed, aluminum buttplate that was replaced with plastic in 1968. Over its production life, the Model 760 was chambered for such popular cartridges as. The action proved capable of using cartridges whose length and working pressures had before now limited them to bolt-action rifles. 22 repeaters and the famous Model 1897 Winchester shotgun paved the way for a flood of similar firearms that appeared on the American market in the following decade. The inventions of that great firearms genius John Moses Browning only added to America's affection for pump-action firearms. These were successful to varying degrees and introduced Americans to the fact that a lever-action was not the only way to obtain rapid repeat shots. But shooters on this side of the Big Pond have always had a thing about firepower, and the 1880s saw the development of several pump-action rifles and shotguns: the Colt "Lightning" rifles and the Spencer and Burgess shotguns. While the first pump-action-slide-action or trombone-action, as some refer to it-firearms were developed in Europe between 18, they were not successful and had extremely limited production. In an earlier column, I made the argument that the pump-action rifle is a uniquely American development that never quite caught on among hunters and sporting shooters outside of the western hemisphere.
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