Remington 740 Woodsmaster Problems - Steve From Days Of Our Livessupport And Help Detail You might want to measure the barrel carefully, since it can't be [b] [u]under [/u] [/b] 16 without paper. A very minor amount under the 16 causes the problem. Keep it clean you wont have a problem. My dad had a 1958 740 woodsmaster and it was always very reliable and never jammed. One problem with the remington model 740 was that the forearm attachment screw was a single pitch thread, pulling the forearm tight against the front of the receiver. There are two problems i see repeatedly in my shop, neither are very common. one is the barrel nut coming loose and the other is the bolt stop flying apart when the gun has been. Remington woodsmaster 740 i recently brought this gun out of storage (chambered in. 280). I did a basic cleaning of the barrel and what i could get to from the. Remington went cheap and let metal tighten onto wood in the forearm. Then changes in humidity would swell or shrink the forearm, and change the pressures holding the. What i found was that it suffers from gross design flaws all the way through the rifle. The gas system is too aggressive, the receiver design seems to be custom made to be a. Check to make sure that it isn't broken or frozen. Those are known for the receivers going bad due to them being soft and the lugs on the bolts chewing them up. Then they jam up and quit working.
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