Remington model 700

OP, Remington makes a very accurate rifle. They are well made by American workers. Don’t try and adjust the trigger yourself, have an experienced gunsmith do it. Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to fire the rifle. Don’t believe 60 minutes and lawyer leeches about Remington; Remington has made millions of good rifles that don’t just fire themselves, walk around at night like vampires, or fly on broomsticks.

Maybe some of these folks need to learn gun safety and proper gun handling techniques. And how to properly maintain a firearm (or pony up and pay a smith to inspect and maintain it, which is what I’ve had to do). What a bunch of hogwash statements in this thread. If Remington rifles were as inherently dangerous as some allege, they would have been sued out of existence by the government and lawyer leeches long ago.
 
Boy do people like to bash Remington, bad trigger's. I've been shooting 700's longer than I can remember and have never had one go off without me pulling the trigger. Every rifle is no safer that the person shooting it!
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They launched the space shuttle innumerable times with the tiles getting smacked by the foam falling off.

The Columbia was lost because the foam hit the tiles in such a manner as to damage them and on re-entry it disintegrated killing the crew.

A single sample is meaningless.

I know of a Remington that you can duplicate exactly the firing pin letting go at no provocation what so ever.

A lot like Tacata Airbags. As long as you have one that does not blow up, its great.

You have one that blows up and kills you, not so much.

At the very least the trigger should be put through the paces to see if its one of the blow up in your face.

You have every right to believe that if the safety is on, the rifle can't fire.

Not that does not mean you don't follow your process in gun safety.

It does mean if you are human and make a mistake, you have every right to expect the safety to do its job.

No rifle should fire off safety or not by itself unless the trigger is pulled.
 
I know of a Remington that you can duplicate exactly the firing pin letting go at no provocation what so ever.
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What did Remington say when it was returned to them?

5 minutes with a small screwdriver, I can get my Remingtons to do the same thing.
 
The owner elected not to screw around with shipping to Remington.

The owner never touched the trigger. He did not know it until the slight bump test was done.

He got the trigger replaced locally.

I would not recommend sending it to Remington as too many nightmare stories.

Just because Remington was once a fine firearms firm does not mean it is now.

Buy a Savage with a very good trigger at a lower price.
 
My, my, so many opinions. Remington's are just like every other gun maker, most work and shoot just fine. They all have a problem of some kind or another, Remington's happens to be in the trigger. Most were fine and worked as intended. Some not so and for various reasons, not just one specific. You could fix them rather easily by replacing them and not looking back. In all likelihood, you would have a better trigger on top of it. This isn't always the case with some gun problems such as Ruger's internal bolt problems, Smith and Wessons STag AR problems and a host of other makers issues.

Bottom line, the only issue I have seen in Remington is the trigger. I have two, they shoot small holes and they have Jewel Triggers in em. I have Savages, they also shoot small holes and have upgraded ejectors to replace the pitiful ones they come with. The Savage triggers (accutrigger) is about the only out of the box trigger I'm not inclined to change. All the others I would. If I was doing any serious hunting I would convert the magazine to something that was reliable. And one final thought, there are more aftermarket parts out there for Remington's than any other brand, bar none. Don't be worried about Remington's, they will not go out of business, price them with a new trigger regardless and enjoy.
 
I just call buying Remington's encouraging bad practices and in the trigger case, damn dangerous to lethal. Unless the trigger was abused it should never do what those do.

Not something I knew but as we have learned, its about as ugly as it gets.

Parts forever yes. Not sure what more you can want.

Buy the gun and the X trigger has to be replaced because its so bad.

Add another hundred to the cost.

Savage, good out of the box. Savage rules!

Granted the wimpy ejector but that is a low cost fix!
 
Won’t argue that some Remington triggers were or went bad and could go bang with a bump as I have seen it in person. What I find interesting is the majority of the owners will not send them in or even change them out if they don’t go bang when bumped. We are talking perhaps a large number here. Odd at best.

Triggers, Savage gets the nod.

Mags, Remington gets the nod.

Ejectors, Again Remington gets the nod but only by a hair.

Pet peeve, bolt release, 100% advantage Remington. Top, bottom releases, both in and out to do it, nuts. Remington, one push done and done both ways.

All the other things pretty much a draw.

No rules.
 
Bradley,

I have three M700, ADLs. One built in 1968 (long action), one built in the mid-90s (long action), and the last one was a bi-centennial model I got a year ago last August (short action). On the two long action rifles I had a professional, very competent and trustworthy gunsmith I've used for the past 20+ years adjust the triggers. He did a fine job on them, and also went through and cleaned them besides; no problems. He thought if the triggers on an M700 were clean and adjusted properly, they were just fine. I trust his judgment.

The short action M700, the last one I got, I adjusted the trigger myself. There was only ONE allen screw to do the adjusting with (way different from my two earlier rifles), and frankly, I can't remember if I had to turn the screw in, or out (did have to take the action out of the stock). The trigger adjusted easily, and is set at a little over 3.5 lbs. (I don't have a trigger pull guage; close to that anyway). I daubed the set screw with blue loc-tite when I had the trigger adjusted to where I wanted it. The rifle has been just fine at this point in time; hundreds of rounds through it.

The newer/current M700s have a set screw you can adjust without taking the action out of the stock, but I've never heard how that works out for a set pull weight; that one seems very user friendly. Don't know if those are still on the new 700s.

If I ever have an inkling, even slightly, that I have a trigger issue with any of these rifles, I'll just get a Timney for it. It's that simple. I can't imagine trading off any of these rifles, as they've served me very well for a long time.

At this point in time for me, I really don't need any more rifles. But If I think I'd like to try some other caliber to reload for, I'd have no hesitation at all in buying another M700.

Hope this "old guy" opinion sheds a little positive light on an M700; I like all three of mine. One other thing (FWIW); through the years, I've never met anyone, personally, that's told me of a trigger/safety glitch on a Remington rifle they've owned. That includes any second hand stories of shooters/hunters I've known through the years, too.
 
I've only seen one that would fire when bumped, and it would do it every single time. A range safety guy who knows a guy I know asked him if he'd ever done the bump test. Nope and they tried it and sure enough it tripped. We changed it out and destroyed the original. It can and has happened, something goes wrong with it internally. Personally I check all my guns safeties and trust none of them. The only absolutely safe gun is one without a bolt and firing pin.
 
Quite a few years back, probably in the late 1970's a neighbor brought a Remington 700 ADL and asked me to check it out. According to him, his brother took it off safety so as to unload the magazine. Rifle was chambered to the .270 BTW. When the gun was taken off safety it fired. Well, to make a long story shot I had the rifle for over a week and messed with it in my spare time. I never could make it fire when taking it off safety or on opening the bolt. My conclusion was his brother had his finger on the trigger when taking the gun off safety. The sad part was the bullet stuck his wife in both legs and she lost them at the knees.
FWIW, my neighbor wasn't too happy with my conclusion.
Paul B.
 
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