I'll keep an eye ou t for a 760 in 7x57 for you.
The pump-action rifles were enormously popular in Pennsylvania when I lived back east, where shots at running dear were common.
They were faster on follow-up shots than bolt-actions, chambered in more modern cartridges than most lever-actions (Browning BLR was one notable exception), and autoloaders were prohibited.
GeorgeS,
FYI, I started buying/"squirreling away" pump 760s when I was stationed at Ft. Indiantown Gap in 1977, though I bought my FIRST 760 in SEP 1967 at a Hot Springs AR pawnshop "in like new condition" for 60 bucks, as I just needed a "deer rifle" & the pawnbroker just wanted it GONE. = Even way back then .244 ammo was NOT easy to find.
(FYI, after I got tired of my niece "TARA" borrowing it, I gave it to her when she went to Baylor University as a college freshman.= Today, the little rifle is valued at about 600-800.oo BUT I don't believe that Tara would part with it at ANY price. = She is DEADLY ACCURATE with the .244, out to well beyond 250M.)
yours, satx