I have the opportunity to buy a mint used BAR in 7mm. I have used a Remington semi-auto.30-06 for 40 years and love the .06. I hunt mainly deer but moose also every few years. Any comments would be appreciated on this gun and calibre. Thx
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If you can get a good deal, I'd get it just because it's a BAR. I like the BAR far better than the Remington 7400/750. My brother has the 750 Woodsmaster in .270 with wood furniture, and he really likes it and says it's reliable, but I've heard too many stories of feed jam and magazine problems with the 750's for me to trust it. The BAR's are rock solid, especially the Safari grade version. I want one really bad...where did you see this rifle?
X2!!!! Yall wouldn't believe how many remington model 742/7400s I've had in shop over the years for repair,usually for cyling issues due to the iffy gas system. I've had nothing but excellent experience with the bars. The new remington model 750 is SUPPOSED to address this problem by moving the gas port a lil distance-thus more consistant pressure for action cyling. Yes,I know there's thousands of remmy autos that work good,but if nothing was wrong,why would they change it?
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If you can get a good deal, I'd get it just because it's a BAR. I like the BAR far better than the Remington 7400/750. My brother has the 750 Woodsmaster in .270 with wood furniture, and he really likes it and says it's reliable, but I've heard too many stories of feed jam and magazine problems with the 750's for me to trust it. The BAR's are rock solid, especially the Safari grade version. I want one really bad...where did you see this rifle?
Mike
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$500....I am keeping the .06 ( my son wants it)....but that .06 Rem semi jams intermittently and I have finally have lost confidence in it...Ihad it serviced and parts replaced by a gunsmith but still problems....the best before date is long past and the gun owes me nothing as it has proven very successful over the years, I have been lucky, as I could manually clear the jam before the game disappeared and it never cost me a moose or deer but I am older & smarter now & I am getting the BAR as I don't want to be sorry when the trophy shows up.
Althou I've heard of a few examples where bar rifles had accuracy problems,they are famous for reliability and I've NEVER actually seen a bad shooting bar myself-I would say a bad bar is pretty rare.
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I have the opportunity to buy a mint used BAR in 7mm. I have used a Remington semi-auto.30-06 for 40 years and love the .06. I hunt mainly deer but moose also every few years. Any comments would be appreciated on this gun and calibre. Thx
I don't favor any semi-auto for hunting, but the BAR's are supposedly good. The one I had wasn't, however! And since it was a Grade IV, there was no excuse for its' unreliable performance!!
I assume you mean 7mm Rem. Mag. ?? A superb cartridge, it is badly underloaded by the factories. A good 7 Mag. deserves to be handloaded for..... I found the 175-grain Nosler Partitions at 3050 FPS MV to bereal elk & moose killers!
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I have it on solid first hand information from a few gentlemen in the industry that Remington only really expects a 250 to 300 round life on the 742/7400/750 family of rifles. If you think about how most of those guns are used, you can see where they are coming from I suppose. Most of those guns will see well less than 1 box/yr of use, some FAR less. Just as stalkingbear said, they are NOTORIOUS in 'smith shops for being regular customers, and many I know refuse to work on them. That being said, if kept clean I have seen fired and fired many fine shooting 742s and 7400s. But given the choice, I'd be all over that BAR. In fact one deer hunting buddy of mine uses an old, battered BAR 7mm Mag and an equally rough Leupold scope to harvest his limit of deer every year. He won't shoot anything else, though I just about have him talked into a slightly upgraded, newer Leupold.
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I owned a BAR mark II in 7mmremmag,and although it was properly maintained,it jammed twice in cold wet weather.Since then,I only hunt big game with bolt actions.
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