There have been reports of the M700 bolt handle coming off, I've never had it happen. The fix is to have the bolt handle TIG welded on or have a machine screw installed affixing the bolt handle to the bolt body like LRI does. Also the M700 ejector can get gummed up and fail so you can have a dual ejector installed, but if you keep the bolt clean you probably won't have an ejector failure. Then you have the M700 trigger failures that result in AD when moving the safety from safe to fire, best fix is a new trigger.
I'm not saying other rifles can't have this problem, but the M700 is probably the most popular platform of current production rifles. So more people own one than any other rifle since the 1960's. So there are bound to be more reports of problems than any other rifle.
I'm not saying other rifles can't have this problem, but the M700 is probably the most popular platform of current production rifles. So more people own one than any other rifle since the 1960's. So there are bound to be more reports of problems than any other rifle.
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