Remington M-760 in movie

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If Remington's M-760 slide action rifle has any fans here, I saw one in, Lipstick, a 1976 film starring the Hemingway sisters.

Margaux's character uses one to kill a rapist who attacked first her, then after he beat the charge in court, visited his attentions on her little sis, Mariel.

Pretty intense, but good movie. In modeling scenes, I think the photographer is actually Francesco Scavullo, a famed glamour photog. I think the cover of, Cosmo shown with Margaux's pic was a real issue that featured her.

I have no idea why Margaux had a M-760. In real life, I think she preferred double-barrelled shotguns, but may have owned some pump guns.

Anyway, this is the only film or TV show where I've seen a M-760. I'm not a fan of it, but some here may be.

Of course, Margaux Hemingway was gorgeous. She pretty much played herself as the heroine model.
Mariel was also good, but came more into her own when she played the ill-fated Dorothy Stratten in, Star 80 a few years later. I forgot which shotgun was used in that, but it was a pump gun, like Paul Snider really used to kill Dorothy.
 
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There was also an old movie with Clint Walker and Peter graves supposedly about a werewolf killing people. Turns out it was Clint Walkers trained attack dog and he later gave Peter Graves two bullets and told him "one is for the dog and one is for me" and gave him a head start and the location of the 760 Remington rifle then he released the dog.
 
Farmer17 said:
There was also an old movie with Clint Walker and Peter graves supposedly about a werewolf killing people. Turns out it was Clint Walkers trained attack dog and he later gave Peter Graves two bullets and told him "one is for the dog and one is for me" and gave him a head start and the location of the 760 Remington rifle then he released the dog.
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Missed that one. Peter Graves was among my favorite actors, the brother of James Arness, of Gunsmoke. The family name was actually Aurness, I believe, and is Swedish.

Obviously, more M-760's saw movie use than I knew. I haven't seen any of the films or TV shows listed in that link
 
andy52 said:
To many to list so I'll give you a link that shows all movies and television the 760/7600 were used in.

Remington Model 760/7600 Rifle - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
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Well, the list didn't show, Lipstick, and didn't even list Margaux Hemingway as an actress, dead or alive!

I found Mariel, but it didn't mention either of her two most famous roles, in Personal Best or in, Star 80. Perhaps because she didn't use guns in those. It did show her with guns in some later films.

Thanks for the link. I hadn't been there in a good while.
 
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NOT A FAN OF THE 760?????!!! Why son, that is the straightest shootin fast shootin rifle that aint an auto....mine will shoot 2 inch groups at 200 yards.

You aint spent any time deer huntin in Pennsylvania or New York, why there is 8 of em in every deer camp in both states.
 
raljr1 said:
NOT A FAN OF THE 760?????!!! Why son, that is the straightest shootin fast shootin rifle that aint an auto....mine will shoot 2 inch groups at 200 yards.

You aint spent any time deer huntin in Pennsylvania or New York, why there is 8 of em in every deer camp in both states.
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Nor do I wish to spend any time in those states!

I prefer bolt actions or autos. Never really got warm to lever actions, although I like some now pretty well. But I see no reason for slide action rifles. I know they are made mainly to sell to casual hunters, not gun people, who just want a deer rifle that works like the slide action shotguns they use.

I have a Rem. M-870 and like the Win. M-12 and Ithaca M-37, but am just not into "pump" rifles.

This seems to apply to all the serious gun people I've met and to all famous gun writers. Can you really see a man of Jack O'Connor's marque using a M-760? Seen any custom rifle makers building rifles on M-760 actions?

They're okay if that's what you want and are satisfied with. Venison tastes the same whether the deer was shot with a M-760 or a Rigby .275 or a custom .270 on a pre-'64 Winchester action.
 
Now ya went and hurt my last feeling.....Penn's Woods is way prettier than Texas.....I guess my "tongue in cheek was lost on you.

They also work well for shooters like myself who are cross dominant. I am right handed and shoot left handed. Lots of "serious" woods hunters in the northeast like them too. We don't always get to watch a buck in an open field for ten minutes.

And what the heck does Jack O'Connor know anyway....

Robert
 
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raljr1 said:
Now ya went and hurt my last feeling.....Penn's Woods is way prettier than Texas.....I guess my "tongue in cheek was lost on you.

They also work well for shooters like myself who are cross dominant. I am right handed and shoot left handed. Lots of "serious" woods hunters in the northeast like them too. We don't always get to watch a buck in an open field for ten minutes.

And what the heck does Jack O'Connor know anyway....

Robert
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Robert-

Texas has more wooded acreage than Hollywood depicts. It's not all wide open spaces. The eastern part of the state has the vast Piney Woods, including the famous Big Thicket. I suspect that's bigger than Penn's Woods, and some is still unexplored. Some think there are ivory-billed woodpeckers back in there, and Bigfoot. Yes, literally. And bears. If that bird still exists, that'd be a logical place to find them.

We do have a lot of ground resembling African savannah and some big ranches stock gemsbok and other game that thrives in parched conditions. And Indian blackbuck antelope. Axis deer, too, in forested and brushy areas.

People who've never been here are often astounded at the vastness of the state. There are probably men here with back yards bigger than Penn's Woods. I'm serious. Look up the King ranch, for instance. Texas has some really pretty areas, and I've seen woods in Colorado and Newfoundland. I've seen woods in glorious Autumn colors here, too.

This was once a separate nation, and I don't mean the size of Liechtenstein or Monaco!

Yes, your humor got past me. Sometimes, my tongue-in-cheek remarks also get past people. I've been told that my sense of humor is so dry, if you rub two of my jokes together, you can make a fire. So, I call it survival humor.

If I need a campfire and am without matches, I'll just rub jokes together.

Sorry if I ruffled your feathers. If you like the M-760, it's a free country. My Winchester M-70 Classic Featherweight is just more to my taste.

As for that Remington, I think I recall a cover on, Field & Stream from about 1958, a painting by some artist like Bob Kuhn. It showed a hunter with a M-760, calling a moose. One was lurking right behind him. Does anyone else here remember that? I was awfully young, but could already ID most hunting rifles.
 
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You did not ruffle my feathers, i was just funning.

I have spent time in 46 of the 50 states and plenty enough time in Texas to recognize all it has to offer, from the coastal areas in Galveston, to the deserts outside Amarillo....once made the mistake of scheduling a morning meeting in Houston and another in Dallas for late afternoon...

Robert
 
Texas Star said:
Missed that one. Peter Graves was among my favorite actors, the brother of James Arness, of Gunsmoke. The family name was actually Aurness, I believe, and is Swedish.

Obviously, more M-760's saw movie use than I knew. I haven't seen any of the films or TV shows listed in that link
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Here's the whole movie if anyone is interested. "Scream of the Wolf", I always liked Clint Walker.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZv1thaTkO0[/ame]


To those who didn't know, a Remington 760 with 2-7X Redfield scope was used to kill Dr. Martin Luther King.
 
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Farmer17 said:
Here's the whole movie if anyone is interested. "Scream of the Wolf", I always liked Clint Walker.

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To those who didn't know, a Remington 760 with 2-7X Redfield scope was used to kill Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Wow! Good movie! I liked Phillip Carey as the sheriff, having seen him on, Lives of the Bengal Lancers and, Phillip Marlowe, Private Detective, if I recall the correct titles. The dame was good, too. I hope she and John Weatherby lived happily ever after. :)
 
I had the TV on at 4 am the other day and saw a old show Cannon he was a PI , and a bad guy had a 760 pump gun . I have an older 760 Carbine that I hunted with for years 06 cal and its a great PA woods gun . You will see them at every hunting camp , along with Win 30-30 and some Win model 70s
 
I just remembered that Colin in El Paso had a M-760 that he hunted with in Alaska while an Army officer.

I've been up all night and can't recall his board name at the moment. Oh: Cyrano.

He died a year or two ago. His M-760 was the carbine model, and he liked it.
 
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