Watching an episode on NBC about people saying their 700s going off with out touching the trigger. Any know anything about this.
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Watching an episode on NBC about people saying their 700s going off with out touching the trigger. Any know anything about this.
I watched the same show. Interesting, but I would still own several remmy 700's.
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Originally Posted by Gunner
Check Remington's site.
They duplicated it by setting the pull weight on the trigger to an unsafe level and performing unsafe modifications as seen in the videos.
I've heard about this.
So may 700s out there, I'm callin BS.
I've owned several over the years and adjusted/worked on the triggers. I've also seen and fixed a few that were messed up by those that didn't know what they were doing. But I've never seen one with a hair trigger that wasn't the result of 'tampering' (although some may claim 'tuning' and 'tampering' are not the same).
This has to be the same old thing that gets resurrected periodically. My Remmys are all fine, never had a problem. But if I'm going to do something to the trigger on one, I just take the factory unit off and put a Timney, Jewell, or Rifle Basix in it.
Bunch of damn jedi's out there nowadays...
Its been going around for 15 or 20 years now
Yup. This had been reported for many years and (as Byte & TroublCo pointed out), it's always been the result of mod'ing the firearm from it's factory state.
Let's face it though. With the sheer # of 700's out there, and the types of folks I've met with 700's while out hunting, I can certainly imagine these getting "adjusted" by/for the owners an the owners never fessing up to the fact that something THEY did might have been the cause.
Personally I think "adjusting" or "modifying" your weapon outside of tolerance so much as to create such an unsafe condition is irresponsible.
and the panic starved, fear mongering media is just as irresponsible for misleading the public and creating the storm.
I Compare it to screaming "fire!" in a crowded theater.
just my 2 cents on it