Remington agrees to `retrofit’ several million rifles

I have a 1998 700 VLS that still has the walker trigger. Dunno if that's covered or not, hard to be sure from what I've read. I'd have to pull the scope in order to send it in, but it wouldn't bother me to have that rifle gone for a bit.

I don't know squat about the replacement triggers though, so I have no idea if I'd want one. I always planned on putting a Timney of the rifle & since I haven't have just made a point of being extra careful where it's pointed when I do anything.
 
Originally Posted By: Stu Farish I have a 1998 700 VLS that still has the walker trigger. Dunno if that's covered or not, hard to be sure from what I've read.

I'm not a lawyer, but, it sure looks to me like you are golden, once the settlement has been approved by the judge, Stu.


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DEFINITIONS:

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“Walker trigger mechanism” means the Remington trigger mechanism in certain Remington firearms, including Model 700 bolt-action rifles manufactured prior to 2006, which utilizes a trigger connector.


III. REQUIRED EVENTS

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In conjunction with filing the executed Settlement Agreement with the Court, Plaintiffs shall file a motion for leave to file an Amended Class Action Complaint naming Rodney Barbre, Wallace Brown, Gordon Hardaway, William Moodie, Ian Pollard, Jay Streeter, James Waterman, and Mitchel Winterburn as Plaintiffs and seeking certification of the following Settlement Classes: Settlement

Class A: All current owners of Remington Model 700, Seven, Sportsman 78, 673, 710, 715, 770, 600, 660, XP-100, 721, 722, and 725 firearms containing a Remington trigger mechanism that utilizes a trigger connector. Excluded from the class are: (a) persons who are neither citizens nor residents of the United States or its territories; (b) any Judge or Magistrate Judge presiding over the Action and members of their families; (c) governmental purchasers; (d) Remington Arms Company, LLC, Sporting Goods Properties, Inc., E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, and each of their subsidiaries and affiliates.

Regards,
hm
 
Originally Posted By: Stu Farishguess I need to read up on this new trigger & see if I'd like one.


It sure ain't no Timney. I have three of them. They got adjusted before I ever fired a round through them. Serviceable then but not any bragging rights on them.

Greg
 
hm1996,

It was my understanding that all 40x rifles come from the custom shop with a different trigger than a 700. The Match and BR ones have no safety, and come with a good triple lever 2 oz. The repeaters come with a double lever, and a safety, but are adjustable from the outside. Is it possible someone could have switched your 40x trigger out with a standard 700 trigger?
 
Originally Posted By: ninehorsesIt was my understanding that all 40x rifles come from the custom shop with a different trigger than a 700. The Match and BR ones have no safety, and come with a good triple lever 2 oz. The repeaters come with a double lever, and a safety, but are adjustable from the outside. Is it possible someone could have switched your 40x trigger out with a standard 700 trigger?


Good morning, ninehorses.

Don't know about that, but mine came w/standard 700 trigger (by all outward appearances, complete w/safety). Mine was a repeater but you had to remove from stock to make trigger adjustments???

I mentioned briefly that I got a deal on the rifle; it was one of 6 which a large hardware store had in stock to supply a niche market of target shooters who competed in live goat shoots in Mexico when the Peso devaluation destroying that market.

Our club conducted monthly NRA XTC competitions. A group of us cut a deal and bought all 6 @ $650 ea. IIRC. I can vouch for the fact that all 6 of these rifles had safeties
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, but mine was the only one that demonstrated "FORS" characteristics.

This was in the '80s., perhaps the custom shop may have changed triggers in earlier or later models; or for that matter, due to the obvious volume of sales, this particular store may have cut a deal w/Remington for a "special run"? However, since all 6 rifles had same trigger, I'm reasonably confident that they had factory installed triggers.

ETA: I also had a 40XR (.22RF built on a 700 action) at that time, identical in all aspects to my 40XC except that I never experienced a "FORS" with it. It was also necessary to remove action from stock to make trigger adjustments on the XR.

Regards,
hm
 
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I have a Remingtion Model 660 in 222 caliber and it was subjected to a trigger recall. I took my rifle to Gander Mountain which was authorized by Remington to fix it. After two different gun smiths looked at it and two different repairs I hope it's fixed now.

When I got it the bolt would not work if the safety was on. I had to take the gun off safety to work the bolt in order to unload the gun. I never did like that. And the trigger was horrible. I had a food friend of mine in college shoot my gun once and he quickly informed me that the trigger was bad. He's a NRA sanctioned Range Inspector. He one of a few in the entire State of Indiana that can certify a rifle range as RNA approved or something like that. He's the director of the Indiana DNR's Fish & Wildlife Agency right now. He's been with the NRA for over 30 years as he was an NRA member when I met him back in 1975. I heard that he left the State IDNR where he started working after graduating from Purdue University in the spring of 1976 and went to work for the NRA but after a while he returned back to work with the IDNR. He's been working there ever since.

I just hope that my rifle is safe now. The trigger is still not that great IMHO. I have another rifle now with a Geissele Two stage trigger in it and that's a nice trigger. But I really don't use the Remington much since I got the AR15. I bought the Remington Model 660 back in the 1970's while I was still in college. I've had it ever since but never really shot it that much. I had it out a few times just plinking around with it but never really hunted much with it. I was intending to use it to hunt ground hogs. But never really did much of that type of hunting as I could not secure permission to hunt the farms I wanted to.
 
I have quite a few Remington bolt actions, have never had any trouble with them. since each one has had some kind of trigger work, I cannot see me wasting all that money and sending it back to them and having to start all over again. Just my opinion.
Barry
 
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