Remington 700 Trigger "froze" then fired on it's own

Remington trigger/safety

I've heard the stories too, but have never had it happen to me with any of my 700s from 1980 to present new ones. I do however keep my actions and triggers clean and dry. I rinse everything with pure acetone or denatured alcohol and am always surprised how much gunk collects in a very short time frame. But even if it did happen, there is no chance anyone would get injured because I am always aware of the direction of my barrel, and I never chamber a round with the safety off unless I'm taking a follow up shot while hunting.
 
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I've seen the "Remington Under Fire" special and read the NRA response in American Hunter Magazine. Both the TV special and the magazine article seem relatively balanced to me. Frankly, I think Remington has a flaw that shows up in a very small number of guns . . . but with sometimes disastrous results. I also find it interesting that some are vehement in their defense of Remington, as if Remington can do no wrong. I own a wonderful remington shot gun, but sold off my Remington Model Seven rifle cause it didn't alway chamber smoothly. (I kind of like that second shot to chamber well when the coyote is getting away.) Anyway, big companies do make mistakes . . . and individual people do to. I don't think the final say on this one has been said. We'll see what happens. I need to research and see if I can find out more about what Remington has to say on the matter.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
"it was packed with crud ...... years of dirt/congealed oil. "

And that is THE "problem" with Remington's triggers. Eventually, dry oil will gum the works, preventing the floating "connector" on the trigger from properly setting. A blast of carborator cleaner/gun scrubber every five or six years and use a non-gumming oil will allow things to work properly. All will be well.


"Both the TV special and the magazine article seem relatively balanced to me."

The Rem/Walker trigger was designed to be an excellant hunting trigger that could be built and sold within the reach of most sportsmen; it is that. It looks much like a fully adjustable target trigger but it was NOT intended to be so. Adjusting the trigger pull too light and with marginal, hairy edge travel is an invitation to disaster no matter how clean and lightly oiled it is.

The TV show did exactly the same as they do any other successful "news" media lie. They mixed a little lop-sided truth and a heavy dose of emotional tragedy along with a some "tests/demonstrations" rigged in the same dishonest way they doctored auto gas tanks to explode for the cameras some years ago to "prove" how dangerous they were. And, as usual, they highly edited their interview with a still very sharp 90+ year old Mr. Walker himself. Truth never impeded a good story line for "news" folk.
 
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Remington 700 unintentional discharge

Several years ago I purchased a new .243 Rem 700 VLS. I took it to the range and after setting it up on a gun sled, loaded it with Remington factory ammo with the safety on. As I began releasing the safety, the rifle fired the round in the chamber. There was nothing touching the factory standard trigger. Of course, I immediately unloaded it and took it off the line.

At home, I tried to duplicate the problem with a snap cap in the chamber. It repeatedly fired when the safety was released after each operation of the bolt. I then removed the action from the stock and inspected the trigger/safety assembly. Aside from it being very difficult to get the action out of the stock because of the tight fit of the wood against the front and rear of the trigger housing, there was no apparent problem.

I then repeated the test with the action out of the stock. The safety and trigger operated normally with no malfunction. I reinserted the action into the stock and tightened the mount screws. The problem with the unintentional discharge returned. So I disassembled it again and relieved the area of the stock in front of and behind the trigger housing until the trigger housing no longer touched the wood. Upon reassembly, I tested the rifle with no further malfunction.

Just to be sure, I removed the trigger/safety assembly and shipped it to a qualified gunsmith. He disassembled it and found no problem with it. I had him tune it and return it to me. I had no further problem with it even after firing several hundred rounds.

Apparently the trigger assembly of the Remington 700 cannot be under pressure in any way that distorts it slightly and still be safe.
 
A fairly balance response . . . .

Wncchester:

The guy who rigged the gas tanks was booted out of the media. They do police their own.

The videos included in the CNBC report show a military snipper touching the bolt of his gun . . . and it goes off. If that was all fabricated by CNBC then Remington could sue them for enough $$$ to shut them down.

Yes, fair and balanced.

Did you read the article in American Hunter. It's more about media bias then about the Remington 700.

I belong to the NRA, and will continue to belong. Hey, where else are we gonna go for the work they do to protect our rights. But they have bias in their "reporting" too. Remember that list of things that the NRA claimed would happen to gun rights if Obama was elected? They had a clip and carry card in the NRA publications to remind us. None of those things have come to fruition. In fact so much was made of the perception that Obama was anti gun that his election was one of the best things to happen to increase gun purchasing in years. The NRA, love them as I do, is not flawless either.

Yes fair and balanced.

The media has serious flaws and remington made a rifle that has a serious flaw.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
gentlemen I personally know two people who shot holes in their floorboards]of their trucks trying to open the bolts of their rem 700s and i was in the truck with one of them i dont own any rem rifles and dont foresee me ever owning any ,, my winchesters all shoot one hole at 100 yds and dont go off unless i pull the trigger
 
Back in the early 70s I had a 700 BDL 25.06 that did the same thing tried to squeeze the trigger and nothing happened when I raised my head to see if I had left safety on it fired and when I bolted spent round out and tried to rechamber another round it fired again scared the hell out of me. I took it to a good smith I knew and he cleaned bolt and tuned trigger never happened again but I never trusted it again so I got rid of it hated to because it was a shooter.
 
I'm paying $25.00 for factory Rem. trigger assemblies. Seriously, If you are scared of it and replace it with something else, I'll buy it.
 
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