A Remington rep at a SHOT show in the early 80's told me the 742 was designed to function for 500 rounds before problems would start. I believe that whether it was fact or not. The average deer hunter would hardly shoot more than five boxes of cartridges in his whole life, and Remington knew that.
They were laughably inaccurate. If you had one that would shoot a 6" group at 100 yards, you had one of the good ones...
JR
That's just plain dumb...dumb and dumber.
I've only owned one Reminton 742 and one 760 years ago...both shot and functioned just fine.
Over the years I had buddies that owned several of them...
I've sighted in several and saw more than one that would shoot a 1" three shot group at 100 yards...I dont recall a one that would not group into 1 & 1/2".
As far as function...
One needs to remember that Semi Autos are not for dummies.
