I found that Model 88 in 284 Win to kick like a mule, not something to stand and shoot all day. For a couple of shots, OK. The rifle is a wonderful rifle, light, strong, scopable, maybe the best lever rifle ever produced. But not for the bench.Two, a 99 Savage.358 then a Model 88 Winchester .358 . Thought that might be better. Wrong! At the time I weighed a buck 35.
Probably the Remington 700 Mountain rifle that you are talking about. They made a few of them waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day. They were built with lightweight barrels that were a bit longer for long range sheep/goat hunting.Can't remember the exact name but it was a rem 700 very light rifle with pencil then barrel in 270 win. That didn't last long.
This combination reminds me of the video of that Arab guy shooting a 577 Trex !7lb 300 RUM sold after first shooting session. More abusive than Mike Tyson.
a famously bad stock....Had an old 03-A3 in 30-06. The stock on that gun just plain didn't fit me. I would pull the trigger and pray it wouldn't go off.
742 remington 30-06 it wouldn't group anything factory or reloads less than 6" at 100 yardsIn my case it was a Model 70 feather weight Win in 270 Win. This gun hurt to shoot it. I'm talking shoulder numbness, bruised and battered. I'm a slow learner and kept it three years.
I am not trying to hijack this thread, but hopefully helping anyone who does have an early model Remington 740 or 742. I have read a lot of the replies on this thread about the inaccuracy of these autos. About a year ago I refinished a 1959 Remington 740 in 30-06 for a friend. It was his deceased brother's rifle and in really poor cosmetic condition. The rifle stocks looked like they had been dragged a long distance down a dirt road behind a truck!!! When I finished with this rifle, he asked me to mount a scope on the gun for him as he was planning on taking it deer hunting with the next couple of months. He gave me some of the ammunition he was planning on hunting with to do the sight in. He gave me only one box (he's tighter than bark on a tree), so I used some of my reloaded ammunition to get this rifle sighted in, and then fine tune to his ammunition. Well... I went to two boxes of my reloaded ammunition, both some 180 and 150 grain bullets. This rifle would shoot all over the place. Finally I gave up trying, I figured there was something wrong with the scope. So he sent the scope back to the factory and they replaced the scope. Now we are back to square one with the new scope. Again I tried to get this rifle sighted in, only to find the same situation, point of impact was kept to within an 8 inch circle no matter what!! Now I am really POd with this thing and the "junk" scopes. So I decide to put one of my trusted Leupold scopes on it and give it a try again. Same thing. This rifle was "not" going to get the best of me and I started doing some research. I found an interesting article published by Wolfe publishing about the accuracy problems with the Remington 740 and 742. The article stated that the accuracy issue was due to a design flaw in the rifle. The article stated that what Remington did was design the fore end to be tightened to the rifle by the fore end screw and tightening that screw so that the fore end tightened against the front of the receiver. In principle this makes sense, but... in doing so this process also puts upward pressure on the barrel. The fore end wood on these rifles is thin, recoil will cause them to flex and move. Plus again there is the upward pressure on the barrel that would change as the barrel would heat up and cool off as well as climate change/s. I have attached this article to this post. It shows an accuracy block that was made by Williams Gunsight company. This block went in between the gas block on the 740/742, the fore end wood and the fore end screw. This block got sandwiched between these three and took the pressure away from the fore end and the received. I do not believe that this block is still manufactured, but the dimensions for this block are included with the article. I know that I personally could make one of these blocks with the limited tools that I have in my basement. I definitely know that this block could easily be made in a machine shop with not effort or time at all. I apologize to the OP for this long reply. I do hope that it helps those 740 and 742 owners.742 remington 30-06 it wouldn't group anything factory or reloads less than 6" at 100 yards