RE: the story on the remington 742
I can tell you that NOT all of them had problems!! We've had 3 or 4 of them through the years (all 30-06's), and all of them were good. The one i now own shoots very good, and does NOT JAM!!!
We've also owned several Browning auto's too (300 win mag, 270, and 30-06's) , and althrough they also are good, they required more cleaning than the Rem.s i've owned.
Drilling Man