The old 700 triggers absolutely have problems . I was at the range with a buddy that just bought a 1970's era 700 . He fired it a few times and when closing the bolt the 4th or 5th time the gun fired . I was literally watching the gun and his hands at the time . No finger on the trigger , he just closed the bolt at a reasonable speed
BANG . After unloading the firearm I was able to reproduce the failure 4 more times .
Needless to say we stopped shooting it . I ended up replacing the trigger with a Timney . I wrote about this a few years ago here I believe . As you'd expect I got mixed opinions as to if the trigger was bad or just dirty and was told when buying a used gun you do a full cleaning before use . That's great advice and is in fact what he did . How ever he did not do a detailed cleaning of the trigger it self .
The more I thought about it the more I was confused . How many of us do a detailed cleaning of the trigger group after buying a used firearm ? Upon deeper thought I can say I've never cleaned a trigger group . I mean I wipe it down and dry brush it but never disassembled and did a detailed cleaning . How many of you have stripped the trigger down and cleaned it before firing a used gun ?
This just seems like one of those thing that should not need to be done to your Glock , Savage , Sako , Winchester , S&W etc or the gun may unintentionally discharge . How ever the Remington 700 is the exception and you really are being irresponsible if you don't do a detailed cleaning of the trigger every x amount of months . It just seems to me with such a critically important part If it were to fail to operate properly , it should fail to work period . Not fire when you don't want it to .
Here is the trigger after I removed from the rifle . I still have it untouched . If you'd like I can take better picture at specific angles and repost or even take it apart and take pictures of that . Let me know and I'll try to help .
Is this uber dirty ?