Hey Man, Happy Birthday,,,,,,,,,,,Curious, During your tenure in the Great North West did you encounter many Remington 760 pump action rifles?

Not Rob, but I carried one up there until I could afford bolt action. Just received some cast .30 cal bullets, will load them for my 760.

Bolt gun country: racks of .338s and 375s 300 mags and the newer mags. Probably more 338 than 3-06...also a slew of older 30-30s and newer 45-70s.

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well, if you mean my part of the NW, as in Warshinton and Eyedeeho, not Alaska, then heck yes! Uncle Bud carried a 270 Gamemaster and dropped many whitetail, a couple of elk and one pheasant (on the wing!) that I know of. I worked for 2 bachelor farmer brothers, one had lost a leg in a farming accident and walked with a crutch; he had two pumpers, a .244 for deer and coyotes and a 30/06 for larger game. Claimed the he could work the pumps while steadying himself with the single crutch. Guy I worked with at the grain warehouse had a 280 pump and a feller in town had another in '06 that he could make sound like a 740. I always lusted after one in 257Bob but prices of the originals are outta sight, even for dogs.
I'm off to the gun show with my Model 99 250takedown, if I find a 257trombone, I might try and work a swap.

Hermann Goess had a 300 Savage pump!

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another friend south of me has Remington pumpers, 14's and 141's, mebbe a 25 or two, in everything from 25/20, to 25Rem., to 30Rem, 32Rem, 38/40 and 44/40 I believe. I've shot a couple of them, the 38/40 is a former prison tower gun! I likely haven't seen all of hi trombones!
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