My dad had a 7400 30-06’. It dropped the mag out of the rifle every shot. He bought me a 7600 in 84’ and I use it deer hunting every year...even with two 64 gun safes packed full. I’ve shot 100’s of deer party hunting with it over the years and never had one jam. Had a few dud factory Remington Core Locts that never fired with dented primers and I stuck a patch in the gun behind the firing pin once that failed to ignite primers. Bad opening day. I had six deer in front of me that all lived.lol
I bought my dad a deer and bear engraved 7600 30-06’ around the last 90’s if I remember but he wanted a less of a kick and traded it for a 243 7600, then I bought a limited edition 35 carbine 7600 and traded him for the 243 that I pawned off for another rifle. I bought a new 35 whelen carbine 7600 last year to add to the mix. I love my Amish machine guns!
My old 30-06 7600 will shoot .6” groups with 180 grain NBTs and .4” with my reloads using 180 grain core locts at a 100 yards. It’s a tack driver. My bolt action buddies use to give me crap for years until one day we all went to the range and my 7600 grouped tighter than their 700’s. The 35 Remington shoots 3/4” groups at at a 100 yards with 180 grain Speer cores loaded a little on the hot side. I haven’t messed with the whelen yet but bought a box of the super velocity hornady loads and shot about a 8 through it and the groups were around 1.2” at a 100 yards. I’m sure once I cook up some loads for it I’ll get it shooting sub MOA like the others.