700 REM. Adjustable trigger?

One last time and I am calling it quits

Necesarry means that you have to have no matter what to do something. I can shoot all day long with a 4lb trigger pull and do so very accurately. Can I do better in a BR type of shooting environment with a light trigger pull, of course I can, but that isn't the issue here is it.

We are not talking just about you. There are millions of gun owners who are not the hunter nor gun safety man that you are. Now if you believe that you are beyond having an accidental discharge for any reason, then by all means, go for it.

It comes a time when eventaully even you will have to go back and reread this post from the beginning. It's start out like this: "Does anyone know if the REMINGTON MODEL 700 has a adustable trigger? I can't seem to find the information on their web site."

Is this the type of gunowner that you want messing with his own trigger and lowering it down to two pounds and hunting next to you? If it is, go for it and good luck. This is a public forum with folks that you have no idea about asking for help on many various parts and their realationships on a gun. Most gunsmiths make it a habit to not give out information about trigger pulls over the net unless they know the person or they know by giving out the information that the person will be safe doing it no matter what. This simply isn't one of those cases.

Now if you want to prove your point or our point. Go to the range and fire at some targets that you pick to shoot. Fire one set with your light pull and fire another set with the same gun with the trigger pull at 4lbs or use one that has a 4lb pull. Now, look at those targets and tell me for the last time if the light pull is "NECESSARY" on a hunting rifle. If you say that it is, then you need to practice your shooting more and learn how to pull the trigger correctly because it just isn't necessary on a hunting rifle that shoots 1 1/2-2 MOA. That's all that is required of a hunting rifle, if yours does better, that's great, if not, it's no big deal because it will still take an animal without any difficulty.

The whole issue you have is that we said it isn't necessary and that we are idots because we said so. Prove us wrong if you will. Show me that you simply cannot shoot a 4lb trigger pull accurately. LOL, be careful though, you might prove something else along the way. Remember this, we weren't talking to you or about you, but if you want to be thrown into the mix that is fine because I think you will find that even for folks like yourself, it just isn't necessary for you to have those light trigger pulls to take an aniaml with. We never said you couldn't have them and use them. Have a good one and stay safe out there.
 
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Ok people who say they haven't had an AD are one of two thing they either haven't handled a gun very much or they are flat blown smoke up your dress.No matter how careful you are sooner or later it happens and we hope nobody gets hurt when it happens. I have had one when I was told the gun was empty and it wasn't thank God nobody got hurt. I am a gunsmith and as I said earlier I wouldn't lighten a trigger below 4 pounds for someone who doesn't have clue about how to softly handle a weapon. As for a lot of folks we all learned to shoot on the 20 pound pull rifles when we where young but as we developed or skills some of us opted for a light pull trigger that had no creep,or over travel and broke like glass. As most everyone has said it my gun and that makes a difference. If you walked into me shop and asked fr a hair trigger you better prove to me you know what your asking Farand if not I won't do it as any gunsmith would. It's a personal preference and thats all if Harry like a heavy trigger that breaks licks glass thats great I don't and have several guns that the trigger ranges from the factory 8 pounds to my race gun that breaks at 1 pound. I won't go below 4 for a person that just bought the gun and has never put a round down range with it unless I knew them and was confident they knew how to handle a weapon with that light of a trigger. But then again who am I. Be Safe Out There Kurt
 
"Ok people who say they haven't had an AD are one of two thing they either haven't handled a gun very much or they are flat blown smoke up your dress."

You wear dresses and have AD's? Not everybody does. ;)

John
 
to answer the original poster, Yes all 700 triggers are adjustable.

To answer the others who say no one needs a trigger lighter than 4 pounds. Exactly how much experience do you have real world?

I have several rifles with pulls down in the single digits in ounces and a few rifles that are about 2.5, 3.0 pounds. My carry pistol is set just above the NRA bulleye limit of three pounds.

I have my prairie dog rifles all down in the one pound range. all are safe bump proof triggers. All have slamproof triggers too.
 
700 trigger

Men:
Am I to understand that someone is loading their rifle and chambering a round and pulling (or not pulling) their trigger and letting the bolt down?
If so, I will tell you that such a practice is idiotic and whoever does that is an idiot! Doing that places the firing pin on the primer - the slightest jar will fire the gun.
This is my last post also on this, but I'll tell you a story.
Old Dave Taylor, barrel maker and famous riflesmith had a gun with a double set trigger made by a Dutchman with "rollers" in them.
He shot a rat and reloaded and set the rear trigger - the long and short of it was that every 15 minutes the trigger went off! He tested it for all day. Rollers too hard.
Double set triggers! Anyone who thinks DST's are fast think of all the different things that happen with DST! They're not faster but they are crisper.
They are primarily used on muzzle-loaders for obvious reasons.
I won't go further less staff feels I'm getting personal. I am not.
Harry B.
 
we dont set hunting triggers below 3.5. And thats hundreds of them a year.

Unless you are trained to do Remington factory triggers, you should not touch them.

My Blaser breaks at 2.1 lbs btw

WildimwithharryAlaska
 
I had a gunsmith set my 700 ADL to 3.5 lbs. 2months later the gun fired when I closed the bolt.

I have tried and tried to get that gun to do it again and have not been able to. I keep trying to convince myself that I accidently touched the trigger.

Maybe, maybe not. In any case, I now expect the gun to fire every time I close the bolt. In fact I now expect every gun to fire when I close the bolt, and have taught my kids to expect the same.
 
If the engagement's too light, the 700 will fire when the bolt's closed. I'd back off a 1/4 turn-or-so on the engagement (rear) screw.

Regardless of purpose, I can't see an advantage to having a handgun trigger heavier than 4# or so, nor a hunting rifle trigger @ much over 3.5# or so. I keep my varmint rifles @ around 1#.
 
2months later the gun fired when I closed the bolt.
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That gun needs to go back, right now.

If you mess with the screws yourself, make sure your insurance is up to date.

Here let me go further: Unless you have TRAINING, plus SIGNIFICANT and EXTENSIVE experience in properly tuning a Remington trigger, you should not touch it. If you do, I would go so far as to call it criminal negligence if an accident happens.

WilditisntjustturningscrewsAlaska
 
I'll admit Remingtons are peculiar. There seems to be an ongoing problem with a few of them.

Sako includes clear instructions in the manual on how to lower their factory-set 3# trigger in the 75 to 2#. I like 2# triggers for hunting varmints and squirrels.

I don't like those old Savage triggers that always seemed to be closer to 10# than the 3# it would supposedly adjust down to. I couldn't believe it when I read the article (Precision Shooting?) by the designer and he said he designed it to go up to 10# on purpose.

It seems to me a lot of folks are going to fool with their triggers whether somebody tells them the right way or not. I hate to think what they'll end up with if they don't get some help when they ask for it. If they look at the gun they can see where the screwdriver or allen wrench goes and most of them will just go ahead and give it a twist or three until they get it "close enough."

John
 
I totally agree with you, johnbt. Some people are going to fiddle with those screws "because they are there." It's not rocket science to adjust a remington trigger, but I have a long background as a mechanic and a machinist, and I have adjusted/taken apart/put back together mechanisms much more complicated.

Just as I will not put a wrench on a customers vehicle without a proper manual, before I lifted a single screwdriver, I bought a book authored by Frank De Haas. It described in detail how to adjust the trigger, what screws do what adjustment, and generally how to set it up. The instructions were easy for me to follow.

He wisely recommends slamming the bolt home smartly several times after making any adjustments to the trigger-I'm so paranoid that in addition I slammed the butt of the rifle on the ground HARD with the rifle cocked just to make certain it could not be bumped off.

I adjusted my first remington trigger nearly 20 years ago and it has held, as has every one I have touched since. I cannot tell you what the pull weight is because I do not have a scale, but all I was looking for was a bit cleaner pull-the factory set up was hard enough that I could tell the difference off the sandbags.

Having said all that, you really do not know who you are dealing with on the net or what their capabilities are mechanically.
 
As much as I've tried to discontinue doing long gun work, being in rural Missouri I still to do some for neighbors and friends. Low and behold in through the shop door comes a gentleman with a Remington 700 rifle wanting a trigger job.
So I told the gentleman to put the rifle in the rack and that when the planets and moons are aligned, the red gods are smiling upon me and the mighty Thor with his amazing hammer stands guard over me I'll attempt to do this complicated feat.
Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com
 
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