Remington 700 on CNBC

Here is a post I put on another forum about a month ago:


Post subject: Remington 700Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:36 am


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Bought one in .223 to shoot coyotes - sighting it in today and it fired while I was cycling the bolt. I know my finger was not near the trigger becasue my left hand was on the forearm and my right was on the bolt.

Anyone ever have this happen with a bolt action?

I shot it about 20 more times and it did not happen again. Emailed remington about so I will see what they say.

There is a really good gunsmith not far from me, I could get them to look at the bolt and trigger for me.


I have a brand new rifle and it did it to me within 15 shots out of the box. Remington told me to send it back which I am doing.
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Originally Posted By: SShooterZAnyone here watch it?

Lots of sensationalism in the reporting.

Not sold one way or the other.


+1
 
Well I did watch the tv special on the rem 700 and as i new it would be mostly anti gun BS.As far as the family in Montana I am very sorry for there sons death.But in my opinion the gun should have been unloaded long before she got back to the horse trailer in the first place.As most of us know never chamber a loaded round untill you a ready to shoot your target.I have been working on 700 remingtons for a long time and I have not seen any problems with the trigers unless they were improperly adjusted or dirty with grit,grease,etc.But I am not saying that they never had a problem with the triger ,I just have not seen it in my years of working on them.
 
CNBC knows 'Richard' about guns.

They're the most liberal news (err opinion) agency that the Gubment owns.

I think I'll go out and buy another Remington tomorrow.
 
sounds like this whole toyota and sticky gas pedal problem too me... theyre attacking remington to a degree..

BUT ALSO

if anyone has a facebook and has liked Remington they have started posting status updates saying how its all a load of BS and how the "special insider" guy never even worked for remington is this true or not idk but remington also sounds like they are trying to cover their rear ends

 
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Didn't we cover this a month ago? Maybe it was on another board. The show tonight said there have been problems sinse 1946 (or something similar)

Well shut my mouth..... The rifle was not introduced until 1962.

The Remington Model 700 series is the all-time best selling line of bolt action sporting rifles in the world. They were an immediate hit when introduced in 1962 and have never looked back.

I say it is Bull. A few people have shot themselves or their children and are looking for someone to blame.

And as Mr. Roberts pointed out, Muzzle control is the only true safety and the best way to insure nothing bad happens if a firearm does fire when you do not want it to.
 
My issue with Remington is the way they handled this problem. Obviously anything man made can have a problem that may cause a potential safety hazard. It is how Remington has responded to the problem that causes me concern.
 
One thing I did notice the clip of the guy with a cap in camo, was not even shooting a 700, it had the push button safety through the front of the trigger guard like a 10/22 They must have shown that same clip 5 times during the show.

Basically they found 5 people killed or injured, all of them avid gun users (Who we know never adjust their rifles..). That said my old 116 Savage has a 3 screw adjustment, If I adjust the sear screw to far in, I can sneeze and set it off safety or not. Just a bump and boom, but that's not a trigger flaw, thats an adjustment flaw.

I'm no fan of Remington at all but, out of 20 million 700's sold, scat happens. I know my Remington's couldn't have been quality checked worth a darn, I literally stomp bent one and threw it in the garbage it was such a.....

Do I think that makes Rem 700s bad, nope. I don't take anything to seriously about anything from CNBC. Far left haters at best doing their very best to take your and my rights and money away.
 
Originally Posted By: sumrifleDidn't we cover this a month ago? Maybe it was on another board. The show tonight said there have been problems sinse 1946 (or something similar)

Well shut my mouth..... The rifle was not introduced until 1962.

The Remington Model 700 series is the all-time best selling line of bolt action sporting rifles in the world. They were an immediate hit when introduced in 1962 and have never looked back.

I say it is Bull. A few people have shot themselves or their children and are looking for someone to blame.

And as Mr. Roberts pointed out, Muzzle control is the only true safety and the best way to insure nothing bad happens if a firearm does fire when you do not want it to.


The Remington 721 was introduced in 1948 and had the "Walker" trigger in it designed by Mike Walker.
 
Problem has been around for a long long time. I have read that Remington engineers tried to get the company to fix the problem in the beginning when it was cheap to do.
I first heard of it after purchasing a new 700. So took the gun to a good local smith. Checked out just fine. He even chuckled "don't worry" as I picked it up. Went to the range and guess what? Yep it fired once on it's own when the safety was taken off.
There are many other stories just the same.
Muzzle safety is the number one rule. It is also the number one rule that gets broken.

recently at the range several people complained the muzzle rule was being violated. Several then pointed out that I was the safest one on site. Wonder why?
 
All safeties and triggers occasionally fail. "The only true safety is muzzle control".

Write that in stone, tattoo it on your forearm hand/wrist/butt/forehead, but never forget it. It's the ONLY safety that matters.




Being an amateur/experimental/backyard (some might say incompetent) gunsmith and accuracy freak, I regularly work/adjust triggers down as far as possible. That in itself has led to more than one AD (accidental discharge) including in Rem 700s.

I have had Ads on releasing the safety as well as on closing the bolt (scary).

Of course having had basic firearms safety (muzzle control) drilled into my psyche since ~1960, all my ADs have been directed (safely) down range (at the range), usually with the shooters next to me not even aware that they happened.



My issue with Remington is the way they handled this problem. Obviously anything man made can have a problem that may cause a potential safety hazard. It is how Remington has responded to the problem that causes me concern.

Expand please, how exactly has Remington's "response" caused you concern?
 
interesting that the army and marine corps both use remington 700 rifles and remington 700 TRIGGERS on their sniper rifles. the army uses a long action which is not neccesary for a 308 with an h-s stock. the marines use a short action with mcmillian stock. seems the armed forces trusts them.
 
Well they say that Remington won an $18M(?) deal with the Department of Defense I believe? That would put a lot of Model 700s out there.

Although, I though Snipers used a M24? Is that the same basic action? I don't know much about them personally.
 
Well, I am in the market for a 700 in a .243 so if this has scared anybody our of theirs, PM me so I can take that faulty rifle off your hands....
 
Originally Posted By: VAhuntrMy issue with Remington is the way they handled this problem. Obviously anything man made can have a problem that may cause a potential safety hazard. It is how Remington has responded to the problem that causes me concern.

But you are assuming there IS a problem. I am not sure there is.
 
Had it happen a couple weeks ago with a "new" used Rem 700 my brother had just gotten. We were at the range sighting it in when it went off while he was closing the bolt. We looked at each other like [beeep]!?!?
Happened a couple more times in the next half dozen shots. Of course, it was pointed downrange all the time.
We took it home and checked the trigger adjustment. It was set so that a sideways dirty look would release it. We readjusted it and haven't seen the problem reappear. But that particular rifle will always be given extraordinary attention to muzzle control.
 
......and ya thought trigger pulls were HEAVY in the past....

( i meant this with a bit of twisted sarcasm....i realize trigger pressure is only part of the process)
 
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Well this is my first post on this forum. Just signed up yesterday.

It has happened to my dads 700. Last deer season as a matter of fact. It is an old BDL, great shooter. When it happen it would do it everytime you closed the bolt. I took it out of the stock and looked at the trigger. The screw on the back of the trigger assymbly had lost the epoxy that keeps it from turning and was about to fall out. I reset iot and added some more epoxy to keep it from turning. Has not happened again.

Is that the reason it fired when the safety was released? I have no idea. It does happen and happens to people who have used these guns for over 30 years.

Sure makes me leary of it happening again. I am sure a lot of kids have had their butts whipped up and down the road at deer camp when it was the rifles fault.

I have 1 700 now and have had several prior and his is the only one I know it happening to.
 
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