No offense, but there are tons and tons of complaints on Remington quality control in recent years. For $2000 you can do a ton better than a Remington. Even most of the guys I know who love Remington and fail to admit they have quality control issues now will all admit the 742 semi auto's wore out. Something about the rails or lugs or something in the receiver (I haven't followed it too closely, I just know to stay away). Once they wear out which seems to happen quickly they start jamming it costs more to get it fixed often times than what the guns are worth. Not to mention they aren't super accurate to start with.

As for working on a ton of guns, I find this kind of hard to believe. No offense to you, as I may be wrong, but from the sounds of it you sound like someone still learning. You recommend Tasco scopes which, lets face it, aren't that great. You call a magazine a clip, etc. Not saying you know nothing, you just remind me of myself when I first got interested in guns.

BTW if you do a search on the Remington 740's and 742's you can find a ton more info than what I'm telling you here as like I said I haven't followed the issue closely, I just know they have a major issue. The 7400's don't seem to have this issue, but they are also not known for being anywhere near as nice as the Browning BAR's or as accurate. I do have friends that hunt with them, and they are fine for a hunting rifle, but it's a big difference between them and my BAR. I also had a friend buy a Remington 750 this past year right in the middle of hunting season as he thought he would love it. He is a big Remington fan and even though he has first hand experienced some of the issues and cheap crap they are putting out he still remained a fan. I think he finally had it after this 750. It started out it would constantly jam. It would jam every shot. It would eject the shot shell, but would jam trying to chamber the next round. He called the shop he got it from and their solution was to send it into Remington and him paying shipping. When talking to Remington they told him it would be a minimum of a 2 month turn around time. He was not at all happy with this since he had just spent a good bit of money on it and it didn't shoot at all, and if he was without it for 2 months he would miss the whole hunting season. He had sold his other rifle before buying this one. He found a gunsmith to fix it, and they got it fixed. Turned out it was a bad burr in the chamber. After getting it fixed, he complained to us that he couldn't get it sighted in. It apparently would not at all hit the same spot or even anywhere close to it for him. He would see it hit one spot then it would be way off the next shot. This guy is one of the better shooters of the group I hunt with so I know it wasn't him. He ended up trying to get it on target and then trying to hunt with it. Turns out that he ended up missing a deer with it the first shot with it. It's accuracy was just horrible, especially when the guy can normally shoot better free handed than I can off of sand bags. This finally turned him away from Remington, and just reconfirmed the experience I've already had.

The only Remington semi auto rifle I'd even consider is an older 7400. They seem decent. I wouldn't get a new one, nor a 750, and for sure not a 740 or 742. The 7400 from the 80's or so is one of those rifles that are pretty decent, but there are still better semi auto's out there like the Browning. So really it makes no sense to buy a 7400 at all.