Rem 700 trigger

[Adam Helmer]

270man,

I saw the "Program" and have a few questions. How on Earth did that father in Alaska shoot his son in the left wrist that has cost $300,000 in surgeries? A wrist is a SMALL target, so how did the father manage the feat and still BLAME Remington? Whatever???

Adam

[PJgunner]

"The 1988 Classic 35 Whelen I bought at B'Ham has turned out beautiful and it shoots real good, sub half inch. But it is light weight and when you get 200gr or more moving, that light rifle tends to thump you pretty good."

You got that right. I have one but you shouldn't have a problem with the trigger. I believe, IIRC that Remington went to a newer trigger around 1982. I could be wrong. I also have a Classic in 30-06. My BDL 30-06 was made before 1982 and has never given me any trouble. My Remington 660 was recalled and the abortion of trigger they put in as a replacement got seriously worked on and now works fine.
Years back before all this came to a head, I was invilved with an M700 ADL in .270 that supposedly went off when a fellow took the safety off to open the bolt. The bullet hit his wife in both knees causing her to lose both legs. As I had been working with the local gunsmith, who had passed away, the gun was brought to me for inspection and to see if I could make it fie under the same type circumstances as the alleged accident. Try as I might, I never could make the gun fire off accidently. My thought was he had his finger on the trgger when he took the safety off, thus shoting his wife. I told them I couldn't help them and I did have that gun for two weeks. I used a primed casein stead of a live round.
These days, when asked, I tell people to hunt with the chamber empty on the Remington 700. It's no big deal most of the time when hunting. Just chamber the round when a shot is imminent. Unload the chambe if the shot doesn't ccome about. The gun can't shoot someone if there is no round in the chamber.
Paul B.

[Rapier]

Paul,
The trigger was about 8 pounds. It is now a crisp 3 pounds and all screws have had Locktite applied as they should have after any adjustment.

Remington has done a rebuttal of the CNBC program which can be found on Youtube. It clearly demonstrates that CNBC created the "News" in their program and that each and every case used by CNBC to attack Remington was distorted, mis-quoted or was a plain fabrication. Go look at the destruction of the CNBC program, piece by piece.

I knew from watching the few minutes I saw of the CNBC program that it was pure bunk. I just turned it off.

I will repeat what i have said before: I spent 25 years as a range master at a rod and gun club range, I spent over 25 years as a match director, range officer and safety director. I have never seen a Remington 700 trigger or the various models that do or can use the 700 trigger malfunction unless they were adjusted by the shooter and 99% of those ADs were due to a failure to "glue" the screws in place once adjusted. In other words, Shooter's Error.
Ed

[PJgunner]

Ed. No argument from me. I have three Remington 700's and a 660 for good measure. The 660 is at least 37 years old and the M700 BDL is 29 years old. At least I bought it 29 years ago new from J.C. Penney's. Not too sure of the age on the Classic in 30-06 but the .35 Whelen Classic I believe is from what, 1988? The 30-06 is older than that. I've seen Remington's rebuttment. The program about Reminton's triggers was just another hatchet job by a bunch of lyinf liberal punks. With luck, dan Rather will have company.
Paul B.