Short action Remington 7400 : yes/no

I haven't seen a chattered receiver in a 7400. The changes to the bolt, bolt carrier, action bars and receiver all help to limit the over-rotation of the breech bolt at the rear of its travel. I expect that it might happen that there would be some light marks such as appear in the 742's but I haven't even seen that.
I had the entire technical explanation fed to me by one of the Remington factory 'smiths but it was so long ago I can't call it all up any more.
As for the reliability of the 7400, I sold one brand new that had a Model 4 barrel on it as well as a number of other bottom of the bin parts. It was a royal pain but it is finally running true and has seen about five successful seasons without issue.
Other than normal parts breakage, such as firing pins and extractors, the vast majority of problems with these rifles are due to ill fitting or damaged magazines and/or lack of cleaning and maintenance.
I have no problem recommending these rifles to anyone who wants a relatively affordable semi-automatic and is willing to take care of it.
I won't dispute what others might have encountered but my experience has been one PITA rifle out of about 350 serviced. That's not too bad for any model.
 
Doug said:
Many thanks for chiming in, smoji! :D

So maybe I am not smoking cheap dope after all.....:onCrack:

Doug
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Quit that eastern crap and went back to smoking BC's finest did you? :p :dancingbanana:

I learned a lot in this thread, I thought all 7400's were jamomatics. I'm glad to know that's not the case. Apparently their main flaw is simply that they are Remingtons. ;)
 
smoji said:
I haven't seen a chattered receiver in a 7400. The changes to the bolt, bolt carrier, action bars and receiver all help to limit the over-rotation of the breech bolt at the rear of its travel. I expect that it might happen that there would be some light marks such as appear in the 742's but I haven't even seen that.
I had the entire technical explanation fed to me by one of the Remington factory 'smiths but it was so long ago I can't call it all up any more.
As for the reliability of the 7400, I sold one brand new that had a Model 4 barrel on it as well as a number of other bottom of the bin parts. It was a royal pain but it is finally running true and has seen about five successful seasons without issue.
Other than normal parts breakage, such as firing pins and extractors, the vast majority of problems with these rifles are due to ill fitting or damaged magazines and/or lack of cleaning and maintenance.
I have no problem recommending these rifles to anyone who wants a relatively affordable semi-automatic and is willing to take care of it.
I won't dispute what others might have encountered but my experience has been one PITA rifle out of about 350 serviced. That's not too bad for any model.
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Translation:
It's a gunsmith's best friend. :D
 
I bought a synthetic stocked Rem 7400 30-06 carbine new from Wholesale Sports several years ago first shot out of it would not eject.

Long story short Wholesale went good on the gun and exchanged it right away for another one.

This one jammed constantly and was the worst piece of cr*p firearms I have ever owned.

I sent it off to Shane @ Reliable in Vancouver (they are the Rem warranty depot in the area) 6 - 7 month's later I finally got it back after waiting for parts from Rem to arrive.

I bought a bunch of new mag's off of E-Bay and tried them all out checking for jam problems.

I set the poor ones aside and now have 6 4 round mag's that work perfectly and the gun is finally extremely reliable.

The only other gun that I have ever had this kind of problems with was a 1911 handgun. After a bit of tuning and mag trials it became one of my favorite most reliable guns ever.

In other words it sometimes takes a little tinkering to get things to work right...
 
I purchased a new 750 Woodsmaster hoping not to have any jamming issues. (alot of forums were naming the 750 another jamo matic) I cleaned the gun properly and loaded it to Remington's somewhat strange recommendations. (insert EMPTY mag, lock breech block open, place cartridge on mag or in breech close breech using release, detach mag and load rounds, insert mag in mag well) The (my) 750 NEVER jams. My nephew bought one in .35 Whelen, (carbine same as mine) He loaded it like you would normally, insert loaded mag, rack action and top up mag. Jammed right off the hop. Tried the Remington way no problems. Does anyone have any explanation why the one way prevents jams and the other contributes?

cheers Darryl
 
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