The one and only trigger I've had FAIL was a straight-factory 1950s Winchester Model-70. Yup, the highly-touted piece of schit failed me miserably. Broke in two, actually, from a factory fault in the metal.
I was way far north in the Yukon Territory, on the NWT border and I had the friggin' Model-70 trigger take a dump on me. Yes, I was fixin to kill a 40+-inch ram when it broke in two parts.
I always carry a kit, but it was back in camp with a spare trigger group, a spare bolt and a spare scope in detatch mounts. So we walked down two-thousand feet to base camp, I replaced the trigger, checked the zero and was good to go.
Three days later, I killed the ram in my avatar, which is many inches longer than forty.
In many ways, I'm happy the Model 70 trigger failed.
No, I never hunted with a Winchester M-70 again. I've never had a Remington 700 fail and I've owned and tested a couple hundred of them. Gimme a Remington 700 any day.
Steve
