Remington 700 "ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE" when the safety in switched off !!!

[243Eddydeerslayer]

Remington did change their trigger design in the 700 series about three years ago. the best thing is to every now and again spray some oil in there.

 

[Brithunter]

Remington did change their trigger design in the 700 series about three years ago. the best thing is to every now and again spray some oil in there.

You are joking...................... right

Oil and triggers do not mix well. Oil attracts grit and debris.

 

[trouble]

The problem should be check by a Gunsmith until it is rectified if it can't be sorted it should be destroyed ,so it cannot be sold to someone else
I failed to mention the gun is about a year old, as i said it has been back to the gunshop twice before this is the third time.
Not sure about your advice in scrapping it.

theres gun smiths and gun smiths , i would take it to another get it fixed and a written report on the quality of previouse work then get a refund from the original gun smith , lets not forget somebody could have been killed , is this shop in rippon?

 

[Rangefinder]

New a bloke once who was new and I mean new to shooting who took a dremel to his trigger sear and was well proud of it. Needless to say the fool never shot with me again.

This work was on a Rem 700

 

[Paul at Fechan]

http://www.cliffsgunsmithing.com/Catalog_Bas_Rem.htm

You can buy a replacement trigger that will solve the problem from cliff's and he ships for under $14 by airmail. Easy sorted and or for piece of mind

 

[JabaliHunter]

the best thing is to every now and again spray some oil in there.

You are joking...................... right

Oil and triggers do not mix well. Oil attracts grit and debris.

Damn straight!!!
I can't believe anyone would post that as advice!

 

[deerslayer]

Hi i had a remington 700 in 308 i had the same problem in that you went to flick the safty of and the gun would go of very unnerving i got rid of the gun

 

[243Eddydeerslayer]

Never done my gun any harm

 

[norma 308]

have had a vls remy in 22 250 for about 10 yrs had it screw cut and the trigger adjusted by a custom rifle builder in n,pton no problem at all with rifle bit worried now !

 

[KevinF]

the best thing is to every now and again spray some oil in there.

This is why I love SD so much. Great advice.

 

[JabaliHunter]

Back to cleaning triggers, I reckon the only thing to use is isopropanol (can be bought for cleaning circuit boards and other electronics) which de-greases and evaporates to leave no residue (or possibly lighter fluid which leaves minimal residue) plus a tiny drop of synthetic oil that leaves an ultra-fine dry residue like eezox on the sear. But then again, probably 95% of rifle shooters have no business going near the trigger assembly....

 

[j0e_bl0ggs]

lighter fluid, quick blast with airline, job done...!

 

[smullery]

Would that "quick blast with airline" be Pan Am.........;(

Stan

 

[csl]

Go on then how many a year?

Let's not go there, please can we keep it on topic.

243Eddydeerslayer hopefully you understand why spraying oil into a trigger mechanism is not good practice, or if you disagree then at least be so good as to explain why you think so without posting inflammatory remarks.

I'm going to remove all the off topic posts.

Alex