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Mobuck · February 20, 2010, 01:44 PM

I've heard this about the 742 wearing the inside of the receiver many times. I've owned/shot about a dozen 742 rifles in various calibers and have never seen this situation. If you carry the rifle in a pickup gun rack w/o a magazine on dusty, sandy roads with your window down year round and then load it and shoot a mag as fast as possible, I'll bet you see some wear. Grind sand and grit into any moving metal parts and you'll soon see wear. We used to burn an ammo can(248 rounds?) a month through a couple of 742's just messing around. I've shot many hundreds of reloads through one over 4-5 years and it never stumbled-but it was kept fairly clean and lubed.

February 20, 2010, 01:44 PM	#7
Mobuck Junior member Join Date: February 2, 2010 Posts: 6,846	742 I've heard this about the 742 wearing the inside of the receiver many times. I've owned/shot about a dozen 742 rifles in various calibers and have never seen this situation. If you carry the rifle in a pickup gun rack w/o a magazine on dusty, sandy roads with your window down year round and then load it and shoot a mag as fast as possible, I'll bet you see some wear. Grind sand and grit into any moving metal parts and you'll soon see wear. We used to burn an ammo can(248 rounds?) a month through a couple of 742's just messing around. I've shot many hundreds of reloads through one over 4-5 years and it never stumbled-but it was kept fairly clean and lubed.